sustainable tourism

Early June 2011, NZTRI Research Officer Pascal Languillon gave a seminar about the behaviours and preferences of green travellers to executives of Saigon Tourist, a state-owned enterprise head-quartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The company owns and manages many hotels (including flagship properties such as Hotel Majestic and Rex Hotel), restaurants and runs guided tours throughout the country. The group is currently implementing an environmental management system in 15 of its hotels, which has already resulted in 3 hotels being certified with ISO 14001.

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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