sustainable tourism

The workshop on "Sustainable tourism practices for the development of marginal regions" on 11 June 2010 in Trento, Italy,  was a unique opportunity for all the partners involved in the Listen to the Voice of Villages project to come together and share, with the help of international experts, the state of the art of the knowledge on responsible tourism and to analyze the case history of best practices in the organization and marketing of the sustainable rural tourism offer.

NZTRI Director Simon Milne talks to Patrick Barnard of The Pimento Report about what sustainable tourism is and three tourism projects that he has been involved in recently: Western Southland, New Zealand, the region of Labrador in Canada and a part of the city of Montreal. Can tourism be made more sustainable?

Sam Judd is co founder of a New Zealand charity called Sustainable Coastlines. Educated in New Zealand and Latin America, he has spearheaded large scale coastal cleanup events and is in the process of developing a formula for waste management in small island states.

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Abstract:

From the 10th - 13th May 2009 postgraduates from nine different countries presented work related to water, energy, climate change, and society in Noosa, Australia. I presented on my masters thesis that focuses on the collaboration of key-stakeholders involved in the Aquaculture and Seafood Trail. I received very good feedback and it was nice to discuss my research with some fresh minds!

Topics were presented at the conference that covered the following themes: