Social enterprise

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A social enter­prise or social busi­ness is an organ­isa­tion that sells sell goods or ser­vices but which has “spe­cif­ic social object­ives that serve its primary pur­pose [with profits] prin­cip­ally used to fund social pro­grams”. This accord­ing to Investo­pe­dia.

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Is orphanage tourism a form of modern slavery?

July 21, 2017

Orphanage tourism and slavery. Tonle Sap, Siem Reap, Cambodia: A little girl making money for her family by posing with a snake in a water village of Tonle Sap Lake. Source: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cccefalon via Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tonle_Sap_Siem_Reap_Cambodia_Girl-begging-for-money-with-snake-01.jpg

Many travel & tour­ism pro­fes­sion­als are com­ing to believe that orphan­age tour­ism is at best a prob­lem­at­ic means to gen­er­ate income to sup­port chil­dren; at worst a form of mod­ern slavery. Slavery!? Mod­ern slavery is widely prac­ticed in the tour­ism sup­ply chain of devel­op­ing coun­tries, accord­ing to Aus­trali­an aca­dem­ics Joseph M. Cheer, Kent Goldsworthy, Leigh […]

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Meanwhile, a young couple promotes authentic experiences

July 19, 2017

overtourism Venice

UNESCO and the World Bank signed a new MoU about cit­ies last week to “advance sus­tain­able devel­op­ment by invest­ing in cul­ture, urb­an devel­op­ment, and resi­li­ence in an integ­rated man­ner”. As the con­sult­ants and spin doc­tors of the world lick their lips — and insti­tu­tion­al book­shelves and cloud serv­ers standby to sup­ply stor­age for their expens­ive out­put — in Venice […]

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Pollution plan cooked up at Kenya’s Lake Naivasha

June 22, 2017

Sunset at Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Source: Gopal Vijayaraghavan / Wikimedia

Nice places to live are nice places to vis­it. With Lake Naivasha tour­ism tak­ing a hit due to pol­lu­tion, a social enter­prise has cooked up a plan to clean up the lake and provide cheap meals to loc­al vil­la­gers. Report by the Thom­son Reu­ters Found­a­tion. Stand­ing on a muddy patch on the shores of Lake […]

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