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Sustainability is Out and Transformation is In – Beware!
As predicted earlier, the buzzword “du jour” in tourism is fast becoming transformation. Its predecessor, sustainability, has through over and mis-use become meaningless and ineffective lacking the...
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Why John Mackey and Richard Branson should break bread together
Richard Branson launches the Bteam on June 14th Most of the public, in the UK especially, has heard of Richard Branson – the flamboyant, fun loving, self-made, successful, philanthropic, provocative,...
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Adventure in Namibia – proving the power of community based conservation and...
Excitement is mounting! In less than four hours I start my journey to Namibia to participate in the Adventure Travel Trade Association’s annual World Summit (2013). It’s such a privilege for many...
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Leading the Way: The Adventure of Travel
The theme of ATTA’S Adventure Travel World Summit 2013 conference (#ATWS2013) was imagine, inspire and invest: and both the organisers (ATTA) and the host country (Namibia) delivered in spades! The...
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Bali Soul Journals – for the conscious traveller
I am very pleased to provide a sneak preview of what I consider to be the best contemporary insight into the essence of Bali – as seen through the stories of 14 Balinese residents – beautifully...
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On Being, Seeing, Then Doing – time to join up!
I recently spoke at the Adventure Travel World Summit 2013 in Namibia urging the members to respond to the acknowledgment made by the Secretary General of the UNWTO, Taleb Rifai, a year prior, that...
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A consistent theme of my blog that I hope has not gone unnoticed is that the scope and pace of change is engulfing us all now is unlike anything previously experienced. It’s not just the speed with...
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Climate Change: Implications for Business as Usual Tourism
Seven years ago, several experts in sustainable tourism in Canada and I founded The Icarus Foundation and published a report called the Climate Change Challenge; Implications for the Tourism Industry...
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Goodness and Wisdom Come in Threes
View south from Bali’s Mother Temple Besakih(c) Popanesh, Wikipedia For three hundred years or so, so-called western society has operated in the world shaped by an Old Story – the story of separation,...
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Walking the halls of hope and despair, WTM 2014
I confess I have never been wild about the World Travel Market – its central hall was the site of my personal “Road to Damascus” several years ago when I experienced the full extent to which tourism...
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