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How can tourism safeguard intangible cultural heritage? A peek at Penghu

May 12, 2020
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Penghu fish traps. The iconic double love heart formation. By chingtao0007 (CC0) via Needpix. https://www.needpix.com/photo/1171932/penghu-beach-love-free-pictures-free-photos-free-images-royalty-free-free-illustrations

In this fresh “GT” Insight, respons­ible tour­ism and eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment spe­cial­ist Kev­in Phun takes a peek at the pis­cat­ori­al pro­fi­cien­cies of the people of Penghu, Taiwan to dis­cuss how the tan­gible and intan­gible should be con­sidered inter­con­nec­ted when plan­ning sus­tain­able cul­tur­al her­it­age tour­ism attrac­tions. Intan­gible cul­tur­al her­it­age (ICH) refers to aspects of peoples’ cul­tures that […]

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Five insights that could move tourism closer to sustainability: Lecturer

February 21, 2019

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Jason Paul Mika of Mas­sey Uni­ver­sity shares five insights on the role of tour­ism in sus­tain­able devel­op­ment: Tour­ism is New Zealand’s biggest export earner, con­trib­ut­ing 21% of for­eign exchange earn­ings. The latest data show tour­ists added NZ$39.1 bil­lion to the eco­nomy and the industry has seen a 44% increase over the past five years. But […]

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Why we are banning tourists from climbing Uluru

November 8, 2017

climbing Uluru will be banned from 2019

The Uluru-Kata Tjuta Nation­al Park board of man­age­ment has announced that tour­ists will be banned from climb­ing Uluru from 2019. Uluru, formerly known in Eng­lish as Ayer­’s Rock, is an icon­ic sand­stone rock form­a­tion that rises dra­mat­ic­ally from the flat plains of Aus­trali­a’s red centre. Kata Tjuta (“many heads”), 25 km to the west as […]

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Involving indigenous people benefits business, environment: UN expert

August 10, 2017

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Gov­ern­ments too often sidestep indi­gen­ous people when approv­ing new infra­struc­ture pro­jects on their land, ignor­ing the poten­tial for sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic growth and envir­on­­ment­ally-friendly devel­op­ment, a UN expert said on Tues­day. A land­mark United Nations declar­a­tion adop­ted 10 years ago declared author­it­ies should seek con­sent from indi­gen­ous people before start­ing new infra­struc­ture pro­jects like mines and dams. […]

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Guyana community-based tourism: “Partnership in development”

May 16, 2017

Moraikobai community members

The only indi­gen­ous com­munity in Guyana’s Region Five is being touted by GINA, the Gov­ern­ment Inform­a­tion Agency, as an emer­ging com­munity-based tour­ism des­tin­a­tion. With a pop­u­la­tion of just over 1,200, Moraikobai is loc­ated on the Maha­icony River, about four hours by boat from the Guyanese cap­it­al Geor­getown. As repor­ted by GINA, Guyana’s Vice Pres­id­ent and […]

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In India, where tigers are neighbours

May 13, 2017

“Not long ago, the Chenchus were caught in the crossfire between Maoists and the anti-Naxal force of the Andhra Pradesh police. The recent National Tiger Conservation Authority order puts them into yet another uncertain phase.” | Photo Credit: V. RAJU

While inaug­ur­at­ing the Nal­lamala Jungle Camp, a com­munity-based eco­tour­ism ini­ti­at­ive, Deputy Chief Min­is­ter K E Krish­namurthy of Andhra Pra­desh state in India hailed the Chen­chu people for pre­serving their cul­ture and iden­tity. This feel-good start to a May 11 news story by The Hans India gets bet­ter; Chen­chu mem­bers will teach vis­it­ors to Nal­lamala Jungle […]

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