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“Asking questions is the best place to start,” Anna Pollock said during the afternoon of the third and final day of the 2020 Global Eco Asia-Pacific Tourism Conference. And she’s right, of course, yet no-one got the opportunity to ask her any! Ms Pollock may be right about the benefit of questions, but she’s obviously not […]
Read More Regenerative ecotourism: Asking questions is the best place to start
Several speakers considered what ecotourism might look like post-COVID and explored “revolutionary” ideas during the second day of the 2020 Global Eco Asia-Pacific Tourism Conference. And, predictably, there were lots of other “re-” words bandied about — Reset. Rethink. Redesign. Reflect. Reboot. Regenerate. … — words better applied to the travel industry at large rather than the “eco-” niche; […]
Read More Re: Ecotourism
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Read More Good news in tourism October 25 – 31, 2020
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Read More Good news in tourism October 18 – 24, 2020
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Read More Good news in tourism October 11 – 17, 2020
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Read More Good news in tourism Sep 27 to Oct 3, 2020