Risk and crisis management

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Keeping elephants healthy under the cloud of COVID-19

and June 27, 2020

Dr Wachiraporn Toonrongchang and team at at a private camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Image supplied by Dr Nissa Mututanont of the GTAEF Foundation.

News from the field — from the Ele­phant Health­care Emer­gency Life­line Fund in Chi­ang Mai, Thai­l­and — by Hol­lis Bur­b­ank-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al. What’s the say­ing? An ounce of pre­ven­tion is worth a pound of cure? For Thailand’s tour­ism ele­phants con­fined to lock-down mode — along with the facil­it­ies and people who care for them — the need for routine and […]

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Who dares wins: Who will hit the reset button?

May 22, 2020

Push to reset the world. By Jose Antonio Gallego Vázquez (CC0) via unsplash.

A “GT” Insight into the mind of the man who leads one of the world’s sig­ni­fic­ant travel & tour­ism industry organ­isa­tions: Dr Mario Hardy, chief of the Pacific Asia Travel Asso­ci­ation. What does he think about the crisis in which our industry finds itself? Over the past few months, we are reminded every day that […]

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Elephant health experts seek emergency funds for unemployed tourism elephants

and May 8, 2020

Dr Sarisa Klinhom (L) & Dr Tittaya Janyamethakul (R) attend to Mae Noi in Thailand. Image supplied by author.

The expres­sion “an ele­phant in the room” means an uncom­fort­able truth we can­not ignore. With tour­ism cash flows stemmed, many Asi­an ele­phants and their mahouts in Thai­l­and and else­where are in deep trouble. Hol­lis Bur­b­ank­-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al tells us why that’s the case and how we can help. COVID-19 has suddenly […]

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Signatories to Tourism Declares Climate Emergency on “system change”, “regulatory action”

March 3, 2020
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Climate Emergency. Melbourne climate march for our future. By John Englart (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/takver/46178192802/

Cli­mate change is real. How do we respond? The first four points in the Tour­ism Declares Cli­mate Emer­gency declar­a­tion are per­son­al under­tak­ings or organ­isa­tion­al com­mit­ments to plan and to change and to share and to col­lab­or­ate in rela­tion to a sig­nat­ory’s declar­a­tion of cli­mate emer­gency.  All power to them! How­ever the fifth point in the declaration […]

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Joint statement on tourism & COVID-19: UNWTO, WHO call for responsibility, coordination

February 26, 2020

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Joint state­ment from WHO & UNWTO: Mad­rid, Spain and Geneva, Switzer­land, 26 Feb­ru­ary 2020 – As the cur­rent out­break of the Coronavir­us Dis­ease (COVID-19) con­tin­ues to devel­op, the World Health Organ­iz­a­tion (WHO) and the World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) are com­mit­ted to work­ing togeth­er in guid­ing the travel and tour­ism sec­tors’ response to COVID-19. On 30 January […]

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Her beauty and her terror … The wide brown land, Australia, is open for business

January 14, 2020

Epicormic regrowth from the base of a Eucalyptus tree, four months after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Strathewen, Victoria. Pic by Robert Kerton, CSIRO (CC BY 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/CSIRO_ScienceImage_10408_Eucalypt_regrowth_after_Black_Saturday_bushfires.jpg

“The best way to sup­port Aus­tralia, Aus­trali­an com­munit­ies, and the tour­ism sec­tor is to keep vis­it­ing,” says Tour­ism Aus­tralia on its bush­fire inform­a­tion resources web page. “If you can­not travel to an affected area due to bush­fires, one of the many ways to help includes res­chedul­ing instead of can­celing …”  If you didn’t already know, your […]

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