Dr Sudipta K Sarkar
Sudipta K Sarkar is a senior lecturer in tourism management at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK. With a PhD from the School of Hospitality & Tourism Managment at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Dr Sarkar has been an educator since 2001 in Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, South Korea, and the UK.
Sudipta has authored and co-authored book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers in the areas of socialisation among ecotourists; sustainability and social media; ecotourism in the urban areas of Asia; technology and sustainability; tourism education; and peace and gender issues. He has also received accolades from higher education and student bodies for his contributions to culinary entrepreneurship and tourism.
‘Ecotourism for the masses, not the elite classes!’ is a slogan you’re unlikely to hear at a protest any time soon. Sudipta Sarkar argues for an urban ecotourism for the masses that looks far beyond Western debates for inspiration. It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight initiated by Tourism’s Horizon, a “GT” Insight Partner. [You too can write […]
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What if the ‘mass’ travel & tourism activities of cities and citizens were ‘sustainable’? Could any of it be counted as ‘ecotourism’? Sudipta K Sarkar explores these questions in this “Good Tourism” Insight. [Thanks to Jim Butcher for inviting Dr Sarkar to write a “GT” Insight.] After more than a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
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