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Khiri Travel Sri Lanka reaps rewards for designing sustainable experiences


Khiri Travel Sri Lanka team explore Sri Lanka while creating sustainable travel experiences

With Sri Lanka open­ing its bor­ders for inter­na­tion­al tour­ists much earli­er than many oth­er Asi­an coun­tries, arrival num­bers have slowly star­ted pick­ing up since August 2021. Espe­cially since quar­ant­ine require­ments lif­ted for fully vac­cin­ated tour­ists from Octo­ber, demand has kept increas­ing.  Khiri Travel Sri Lanka anti­cip­ated increas­ing demand for more sus­tain­able and off-the-beaten-track exper­i­ences and […]

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All aboard! High-speed train offers compelling new way to travel through Laos


High-speed train offers compelling new way to travel through Laos

The romance of train travel is alive and well in Laos. The recently-com­pleted high-speed rail­way that stretches from Vien­tiane, through Laos, and into south­ern China is oper­at­ing ‘full steam’ ahead.  This excit­ing jour­ney takes you through remote vil­lages and into the heart of rur­al Laos, offer­ing up close and per­son­al views of the Laos of today […]

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Enrich yourself and your people with no-nonsense responsible tourism courses


Enrich-yourself-with-CRTS-short-online-courses Image by Gerd Altmann via Pixabay

Buzzwords abound in travel & tour­ism.  Singapore’s respons­ible tour­ism pion­eer, Kev­in Phun, excels in unbox­ing the premises and prac­tic­al­it­ies bundled with­in buzzwords … and in demon­strat­ing how they are rel­ev­ant. He has to be good at that in Singa­pore, a pros­per­ous city state whose inbound tour­ism stake­hold­ers might be for­giv­en for think­ing they don’t have […]

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Bali is back, and so is the rest of wild Indonesia


Orangutans, Kalimantan, Indonesia

Since the long-awaited — but then very sud­den — eas­ing of travel restric­tions for travel into Indone­sia last March, Bali has seen a very quick return of trav­el­lers.  Along Bali’s south­w­est coast one will once again find the typ­ic­al beach- and Bintang-attrac­ted vis­it­or.  Beach­front hotels and beach clubs are exper­i­en­cing a book­ings rush from both domest­ic and for­eign travellers […]

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Back to the future: A sustainability plan for our kids


Back to the future: A sustainability plan for our kids was led and then inspired by Maurice Strong whose legacy continues through the SUNx Strong Universal Network

On the 50th Anniversary of the Stock­holm Earth Sum­mit, and the 30th Anniversary of the Rio Earth Sum­mit — both of which were led by my friend Maurice Strong, the inspir­a­tion for SUNx Malta (Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work) — I gave a key­note at a Stock­holm event reflect­ing on the dom­in­ant role Maurice played in cre­at­ing today’s United Nations-led climate […]

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A gorilla-sized opportunity to join Rwanda’s Red Rocks Cultural Festival


Red Rocks Cultural Festival Rwanda red sarong man dancing

Cul­min­at­ing in Kwita Izina — the Gor­illa Nam­ing Cere­mony — and a night of music and dan­cing, the Red Rocks Cul­tur­al Fest­iv­al is an annu­al event in Rwanda.  In 2022 the 10th instal­ment of the vibrant Fest­iv­al will take place August 26 to Septem­ber 2 at Nyak­i­n­ama vil­lage in Rwanda’s Musan­ze dis­trict. I invite you to join and/or sponsor […]

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