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Hi! Have you registered for the Strong Earth Youth Summit 2024 yet?


SUNx Malta Strong Earth Youth Summit SEYS 2024 promotion

Young people in travel & tour­ism, and their ment­ors and sup­port­ers, are invited right now to register for the 2024 edi­tion of the Strong Earth Youth Sum­mit (SEYS). The Strong Earth Youth Sum­mit (SEYS) is an annu­al trib­ute to Maurice Strong, cli­mate act­iv­ist for more than 50 years and Sec­ret­ary Gen­er­al of the first “Earth Sum­mit” in […]

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For a sustainable Singapore, Green Destinations’ regional lead picks CRTS


For a sustainable Singapore, Green Destinations picks CRTS. Pic by Coleen Rivas (CC0) via Unsplash. "GT" added "GREEN Singapore". https://unsplash.com/photos/people-crossing-bridge-OZ2rS2zCjNo

Singapore’s private-sec­t­or tour­ism stake­hold­ers, from small- and medi­um-sized busi­nesses to glob­al brands, will increas­ingly pur­sue sus­tain­ab­il­ity cer­ti­fic­a­tion over the com­ing years, accord­ing to Kev­in Phun, founder of the Centre for Respons­ible Tour­ism Singa­pore (CRTS). Mr Phun is more bullish about the oppor­tun­it­ies for a sus­tain­able Singa­pore since Susan San­tos de Cárde­n­as, Green Des­tin­a­tions’ South­east Asia […]

Read More For a sustainable Singapore, Green Destinations’ regional lead picks CRTS

FINAL CALL for entries: Strong Earth Awards 2024, Advancing the Earth Charter


Strong Earth Awards 2024

March 31, 2024 is the dead­line for the Strong Earth Awards 2024.  Entrants are invited to sub­mit a thought-pro­­vok­ing 500-word essay on:  “Why is the Earth Charter more rel­ev­ant today than when it was intro­duced by Maurice Strong and Mikhail Gorbachev in 2005; espe­cially for tour­ism in Least Devel­op­ing Coun­tries (LDCs) and Small Island Devel­op­ing States […]

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Cambodian ecolodge commits to conservation and community for the long run


Cambodia’s multiple award-winning conservation lodge, Cardamom Tented Camp, has joined The Long Run, an international group of nature-based tourism businesses that help to protect around 9.3 million hectares (23 million acres) of biodiverse lands on six continents.

Cam­bod­i­a’s mul­tiple award-win­n­ing con­ser­va­tion lodge, Car­damom Ten­ted Camp, has joined The Long Run, an inter­na­tion­al group of nature-based tour­ism busi­nesses that help to pro­tect around 9.3 mil­lion hec­tares (23 mil­lion acres) of biod­i­verse lands on six con­tin­ents. Why join The Long Run? By join­ing The Long Run as a “fel­low mem­ber”, Car­damom Ten­ted Camp com­mits to […]

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CABI Tourism Cases: Tourism and communities


Tourism and communities. A Cyprus man and his goat. Image by Dimitris Vetsikas (CC0) via Pixabay. "GT" cropped the image and added the words. https://pixabay.com/photos/cyprus-fikardou-village-2568199/

CABI Tour­ism Cases, a “Good Tour­ism” Part­ner, pub­lishes peer-reviewed case stud­ies on travel & tourism’s inter­ac­tions with the world from just about every angle … includ­ing tour­ism and com­munit­ies. This is the second in a new series of posts in which CABI shares brief sum­mar­ies of its most recent tour­ism-related case stud­ies (and books) along vari­ous themes.

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Khiri Reach commits to One Million Trees reforestation project in Cambodia


Khiri Reach, the 16-year old charitable arm of Khiri Travel, has joined Wildlife Alliance’s ambitious long-term One Million Trees initiative to reforest illegally cleared land in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains.

Khiri Reach, the 16-year old char­it­able arm of Khiri Travel, has joined Wild­life Alliance’s ambi­tious long-term One Mil­lion Trees ini­ti­at­ive to refor­est illeg­ally cleared land in Cambodia’s Car­damom Moun­tains. Khiri Reach has donated US$15,000 to the One Mil­lion Trees refor­est­a­tion pro­ject in the Koh Kong and Sihan­ouk­ville provinces of Cam­bod­ia. The char­ity has pledged to […]

Read More Khiri Reach commits to One Million Trees reforestation project in Cambodia