Sustainable Tourism: What is it again? (0)
10/19/09 •
I received a comment here last week that made me think again about what Sustainable Tourism means to me.
It is the case that once you have attached a label to a thing or a concept you treat it as if it were an absolute truth. It is therefore healthy to stop and see it [...]
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Vacations In Asia 2023 (0)
10/10/09 •
This week I was reading what travel to Asia might look like in 2023.
In brief the four scenarios proposed were:
Boom and burst – we are all going to be richer (in the UK at least!) and travel more. Look out for a theme park at Mount Everest base camp and controlled [...]
A Starfish in S E Asia (0)
10/04/09 •
It continues to be a dreadful time in much of South East Asia as people count the cost of the storms that have ripped through the region. As I write, the death toll, arising from Tropical Storm Ketsana, in Laos is reportedly 24: in the Philippines it is 293, in Vietnam at least 107 have [...]
Community Based Tourism in Borneo (1)
9/28/09 •
As I mentioned in my previous piece, Community Based Tourism: What’s in a Name?, I first became aware of the concept in the early 1990s when I was introduced to the Ulu Ai Longhouse experience in Sarawak, East Malaysia. It was one of the first tours, in the depths of the Borneo Rainforest, which we [...]
Community Based Tourism: What’s in a Name? (0)
8/31/09 •
I have been thinking recently about my future direction within the Asia travel industry and the concept of Community Based Tourism (CBT) has been mentioned to me, independently, by two different people whose opinions I respect.
The key question for me is, over the longterm (well, we are all going to have to work until we’re [...]
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