Peace through tourism

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Can pro-social tourism foster empathy & cross-cultural understanding?

and March 20, 2019

Can pro-social tourism foster empathy & understanding? Pic by Lourdes Zamanillo Tamborrel

To build empathy and under­stand­ing between hosts and guests, “pro-social” tour oper­at­ors should facil­it­ate more con­ver­sa­tions — a “GT” Insight by Mon­ash Uni­ver­sity PhD can­did­ate Lourdes Zama­nillo Tam­bor­rel and Dr Joseph M Cheer. Accord­ing to the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­isa­tion (UNWTO), tour­ism accounts for around 10 per cent of glob­al gross domest­ic product (GDP) and thirty percent […]

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Former FARC rebels turn ecotourism guides, but peace remains fragile

February 22, 2019
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Colombia has its ecotourism treasures such as the Caño Cristales waterfall. Image by Mario Carvajal (CC BY 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CA%C3%91O_CRISTALES,_SECTOR_LOS_OCHOS_(COLOMBIA).jpg

About 30 of the estim­ated 12,000 FARC mem­bers demo­bil­ised under a peace accord with Colom­bi­a’s gov­ern­ment have chosen eco­tour­ism as a path to rein­teg­ra­tion. The travel & tour­ism industry would do well to sup­port them. Full story by Ana­stas­ia Molo­ney writ­ing for the Thom­son Reu­ters Found­a­tion. As a former rebel fight­er, Ximena Cruz used to […]

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