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I don't go a bundle on #traveller vs #tourist snobbishness. 🎒
It's not binary; people uniquely #experience a whole world of differences. Away from home for a night+? We're all #tourists. 🧳
But, I do get it's about attitude to travel.
This quote perhaps gets to the root of it?
ALT Allee des Baobabs, Madagascar: People herding cattle along the dirt road lined with towering baobab trees at golden hour, overlaid with G.K. Chesterton’s quote: "The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see." #Earth Changers #BeTheChange Pic by Elle Leontiev on Unsplash
#MondayMotivation: “The #traveler sees what he sees. The #tourist sees what he has come to see” ~ #GKChesterton, English writer, renowned for witty social commentary & deep celebration of ordinary, unfiltered human #experience.
📸 Allee des Baobabs, #Madagascar: Enquire for info
ALT Allee des Baobabs, Madagascar: People herding cattle along the dirt road lined with towering baobab trees at golden hour, overlaid with G.K. Chesterton’s quote: "The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see." #Earth Changers #BeTheChange Pic by Elle Leontiev on Unsplash
📢 #UK: Have you seen the #PeoplesEmergencyBriefing?
Tomorrow's 3 extra reasons:
🌍 International Day of Climate Action
🌐 UN Day: marking its 1945 foundation for nations working together
📖 World Development Information Day: to help understand why cooperation matters
#PEB #NEB
The #GibraltarTouristBoard & the Department of the #Environment, in partnership with #ANIMONDIAL, have embarked on a #Gibraltar #NaturePositive #Tourism Pilot
wtm.com/portfolio/en-gb/blog… #rockofgibraltar #visitgibraltar #nature #travel #SDG15 #conservation
#FESI has developed a set of recommendations, in collaboration with its members & experts, to help shape the #EuropeanCommission’s forthcoming #EU #SustainableTourism Strategy & unlock the potential of #sport & #active #tourism across #Europe
fesi-sport.org/fesi-puts-for… #Culture
📢 #UK #PeoplesEmergencyBriefing
🎦 Everyone should see it
✅ Go to or host a #community screening. Expats abroad too!
✅ UK-wide briefing to be debated in #Parliament, 16 Nov: encourage MPs to attend, watch online - Parliament YouTube 📺
✅ Annual, eg.King’s Speech?
#PEB
🎦 #ThePeoplesEmergencyBriefing
50-min film, #ChrisPackham host
Reactions from celebrities eg #JenniferSaunders, #DeborahMeaden
+ public
Screenings: village halls, cinemas, faith spaces, workplaces
In 000s of #communities
+ discuss what it means locally
👌
Have you been?
#NEB
#ATTA publishes new member guide, #GreenTransition & the #EU: A Guide for #African #Tourism Businesses, to help understanding of what EU’s #EmpoweringConsumers for the #Green Transition Directive #ECGT/#EmpCo could mean for their #marketing & comms
wtm.com/portfolio/en-gb/blog… #SDG12
📢 UK: Have you seen the #PeoplesEmergencyBriefing?
Tomorrow's 3 extra reasons:
🌍 International Day of Climate Action
🌐 UN Day: marking its 1945 foundation for nations working together
📖 World Development Information Day: to help understand why cooperation matters
#SDG13
#Greek #spa town #Loutraki hosted the annual general assembly of the #European #Historic #Thermal Towns Association #EHTTA this week, with #heritage preservation, #water-resource management, & #sustainabletourism on the agenda
tovima.com/travel/european-s… #Greece #SDG12 #thermaltowns
How #holiday planners are helping to mitigate #climate volatility openaccessgovernment.org/how… #SDG12 #SDG13 #Water #Energy #Plastics #Carbon #LeaveNoTrace #Regen #PositiveImpactTravel #EarthChangers
How #holiday planners are helping to mitigate #climate volatility openaccessgovernment.org/how… #SDG12 #SDG13 #Water #Energy #Plastics #Carbon #LeaveNoTrace
#GlobalSustainableTourismCouncil Announces Development of new Micro & Small Enterprise Standards for #Accommodations & #TourOperators: to make #GSTC #sustainability #certification more accessible, practical, & proportionate while maintaining credibility
gstc.org/gstc-announces-deve…
🔥 Oct 25: wildfire spread across the #CapeFloralKingdom & 1k ha of our #SouthAfrica partner's reserve.
🌱 But #fynbos #regenerates with fire!
🌸 Oct 26: #Superbloom!
🥇 Against the odds, they won 3rd year consecutive Gold at #Chelsea #Flower Show in a story-telling display
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🔥 Oct 25: wildfire spread across the #CapeFloralKingdom & 1k ha of our #SouthAfrica partner's reserve.
🌱 But #fynbos #regenerates with fire!
🌸 Oct 26: #Superbloom!
🥇 Against the odds, they won 3rd year consecutive Gold at #Chelsea #Flower Show in a story-telling display
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#WTTC's Global Summit: #travel industry #sustainability came down to practical business decisions: how to protect #hotels, fund coastal #resilience & help operators improve. #Iberostar, #GSTC & #Malta #Tourism Authority showed investment makes difference
tourismag.com/articles/10101…
#TravelTuesday - Rising From the Ashes...
🔥 A year ago, a devastating 1k ha fire.
🌱 But to #fynbos, fire means life.
🌼 A #Superbloom has now emerged.
🌸 #Orchids, #gladioli, #daisies, countless other #species, create a spectacular display, new blooms emerging each day.
#TravelTuesday: Rising From the Ashes...
🔥~A year since a huge wildfire spread across the #CapeFloralKingdom.
🌱 But to a fire-driven #ecosystem like #fynbos, fire means #regeneration.
🌸 So a year on, fields are alive with colour, carpeted in thousands of blooming #flowers
#Ngorongoro #ConservationArea (Authority #NCAA) wins #SustainableTourism & #ConservationManagement Award at #Africa Business Forum, recognising its role in safeguarding #biodiversity, developing #ecotourism, cultural #heritage & local communities' benefits
getaway.co.za/news/ngorongor…
