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Tourism & the climate crisis: New TPCC Horizon Papers on the implications of ‘Doughnut Economics’ & aviation’s inadequate climate change policies

January 24, 2024

New TPCC Horizon Papers on tourism and the climate crisis. Background image by Pete Linforth (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/sunset-sea-horizon-sun-sky-ocean-298850/

Fol­low­ing its recent Tour­ism and Cli­mate Change Stock­take 2023 in Decem­ber, the Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) has pub­lished two new ‘Hori­zon Papers’: The TPCC Exec­ut­ive Board issued the fol­low­ing state­ment: “Our recent Stock­take of the tour­ism sec­tor, by more than 60 lead­ing tour­ism and cli­mate aca­dem­ic and industry experts, made it clear that […]

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Revealed for COP 28: Global tourism’s first climate change stocktake report

December 13, 2023

TPCC 'Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake 2023'

The first Tour­ism and Cli­mate Change Stock­take report has been released by the Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) con­cur­rent with the UN COP 28 Cli­mate Con­fer­ence. [Down­load the Stock­take.] Its 24 key find­ings aim to sup­port policy makers and the tour­ism industry to accel­er­ate plan­ning and invest­ment toward low car­bon and cli­mate resi­li­ent glob­al tourism. […]

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It’s time for REAL change: TPCC ‘Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake 2023’

November 30, 2023

TPCC 'Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake 2023'

Novem­ber 30, 2023: “The time for real change is now,” accord­ing to the TPCC (Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change). The TPCC will launch its Tour­ism and Cli­mate Change Stock­take 2023 on Decem­ber 11 dur­ing a glob­al online event at 0900 GMT/UTC, which will be repeated at 1700 for travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers around the world. This first sec­tor­al Stock­take has […]

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Discover new carbon-neutral tours in destinations across Thailand at WTM 2023

October 26, 2023

Are you attending World Travel Market 2023 and looking for fun and inspiring new carbon-neutral tours for your increasingly conscientious and climate-aware customers? Meet the Thai Ecotourism and Adventure Travel Association (TEATA) at World Travel Market 2023

Are you attend­ing World Travel Mar­ket 2023 and look­ing for fun and inspir­ing new car­­bon-neut­ral tours for your increas­ingly con­scien­tious and cli­mate-aware cus­tom­ers? You’re in luck because the Thai Eco­tour­ism and Adven­ture Travel Asso­ci­ation (TEATA) is rolling out 20 new, inspir­ing tours designed to reduce car­bon emis­sions and fully off­set the rest, in loc­al, Thai […]

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Emotions, storytelling, AI, & tech dominate culture & heritage tourism summit

September 27, 2023

Culture and heritage tourism discussed at WTACH Global Leaders Summit in Valencia, Spain

Emo­tion­al con­nec­tion, empathy, and nar­rat­ive storytelling in an AI age of declin­ing atten­tion spans dom­in­ated debate at the inaug­ur­al Glob­al Lead­ers Sum­mit of the World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture and Her­it­age (WTACH). Her­it­age tour­ism experts grappled with com­plex issues of present­ing cul­ture and her­it­age to tour­ists at an inter­na­tion­al gath­er­ing of cul­ture tour­ism experts Septem­ber 24 – 25 […]

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Rwanda names baby mountain gorillas, celebrates conservation & ecotourism

September 2, 2023

19th Kwita Izina gorilla naming ceremony in Rwanda - Meet Mukundwa, Teta's son

The world has met in Kinigi, Musan­ze at the foot­hills of Rwanda’s Vol­ca­noes Nation­al Park to name 23 baby moun­tain gor­il­las in a glob­al cel­eb­ra­tion of con­ser­va­tion and com­munity-led efforts to pro­tect their hab­it­at.  Graced by HE the First Lady of Rwanda, Jean­nette Kagame, the 19th Kwita Izina Gor­illa Nam­ing Cere­mony, Septem­ber 1, brought together […]

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