Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Guest blog by Harold Goodwin is a Professor Emeritus and  Responsible Tourism Director at the Institute of Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University, Managing Director of the Responsible Tourism Partnership and adviser to the World Travel Market on its Responsible Tourism programme at WTM London President Biden has pointed out that we are now in the critical decade for change. We face series of global challenges, climate change, biodiversity extinction and mounting inequality. There are many issues that need to be addressed. Tourism lauds itself as 10% of the pre-pandemic global economy, although as the World Travel & Tourism Council reports, it shrank to 5.5% last year. The travel and tourism industry needs to change to become sustainable; it is far from it. For real progress to be made, regulation is required. Across all economic sectors, enlightened business leaders recognise that regulation is necessary to avoid progressive companies being undercut by th...

Preparing For the Glasgow 2020 Climate Summit article 7 Harold Goodwin is the World Travel Market’s Responsible Tourism Advisor, he puts together the flagship Responsible Tourism programme at WTM London . He is also a Director of the Institute of Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he is an Emeritus Professor, and Founder Director of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism promotes the principles of the Cape Town Declaration (2002) which he drafted.  https://news.wtm.com/category/responsible-tourism/    or here  https://haroldgoodwin.info/blog/  In April last year, I described aviation as the  Achilles Heel  of our sector and pointed out that consumers are increasingly demanding that producers and suppliers address the sustainability of the goods and services offered to us to purchase – the same pressure needs to come on the manufacturers of aeroplanes and providers of flights and fuel. I learnt last week, ...