Risk and crisis management

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The effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on wildlife and wildlife tourism

January 12, 2021
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A bold and curious kookaburra at a picnic area in Brisbane, Australia. Image by Ronda J Green.

COVID-19 lock­downs have not only impacted travel & tour­ism, includ­ing wild­life tour­ism, but also wild­life itself. As a research eco­lo­gist, con­ser­va­tion­ist, eco-tour pro­pri­et­or, and chair of Wild­life Tour­ism Aus­tralia, Ronda J Green is inter­ested in all aspects of that. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Dr Green sum­mar­ises the effects coronavir­us lock­downs have had on wildlife […]

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Overtourism to no tourism and back again: What is Lake Tahoe’s ‘new normal’?

December 8, 2020
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Sunset over Lake Tahoe. Image by Rachid Dahnoun / Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority

Lake Tahoe, USA lived through the sud­den over­­­tour­ism-to-no-tour­ism with­draw­al exper­i­enced by many pop­u­lar des­tin­a­tions in 2020. The area also had to endure a wrench­ing return to over­tour­ism as city-slick­­ers rushed to get their nature fix after COVID lock­down. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Lake Tahoe Vis­it­ors Author­ity boss Car­ol Chap­lin out­lines the crazy jour­ney before […]

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Re: Ecotourism

December 2, 2020

Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk, Walpole, Western Australia. Image by Komkick (CC0) via pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/tree-top-walk-west-australia-forest-3847669/

Sev­er­al speak­ers con­sidered what eco­tour­ism might look like post-COV­­ID and explored “revolu­tion­ary” ideas dur­ing the second day of the 2020 Glob­al Eco Asia-Pacific Tour­ism Con­fer­ence. And, pre­dict­ably, there were lots of oth­er “re-” words ban­died about — Reset. Rethink. Redesign. Reflect. Reboot. Regen­er­ate. … — words bet­ter applied to the travel industry at large rather than the “eco-” niche; […]

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‘Not good enough. Move your … !’ Grit, honesty, hope, and how to survive a crisis

December 1, 2020
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Sandpaper in different grits (40, 80, 150, 240, 600) By Simon Eugster (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schleifpapier_verschiedene_Sorten.jpg

Politi­cians and pub­lic ser­vants spruiked their respect­ive places and tax-pay­er-fun­­ded ini­ti­at­ives, and industry giants and glob­al con­sult­ants had their say, but it was the small entre­pren­eurs who were the most inspir­ing speak­ers on the first day of the 2020 Glob­al Eco Asia-Pacific Tour­ism Con­fer­ence. What mat­ters? Indeed Sonia Beck­with, co-own­er of Live Nin­ga­loo, had a […]

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Mahouts matter: The Elephant Conservation Center’s essential workers

and November 26, 2020

ECC's male elephant mahout team. Image by Anabel Lopez-Perez.

Intro­duct­ory note by Hol­lis Bur­b­ank-Ham­­marlund, Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al: The concept of ‘essen­tial work­ers’ has been front and centre since the COVID-19 vir­us struck our world earli­er this year. Doc­tors, nurses, para­med­ics, as well as teach­ers, gro­cery store work­ers, trans­port­a­tion staff and so many oth­ers have been work­ing tire­lessly to sup­port essen­tial human needs […]

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How will rural tourism in India survive the COVID crisis?

November 17, 2020
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India tea plantation. By 12019 (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/tea-plantation-landscape-scenic-2220475/

Social entre­pren­eur Kumar Anubhav writes about the exist­en­tial prob­lems facing rur­al tour­ism stake­hold­ers in India, and the sur­viv­al and sus­tain­ab­il­ity solu­tion he and his friends are rolling out as Pro­ject TraViv­al; the sub­ject of this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. COVID-19 has not only changed the way we work, live, and think, but it has also changed […]

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