by annapollock@me.com | Nov 12, 2014 | Conscious Travel, MOVE, Operating Models
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 has become an industrial production and consumption machine. I admit...
by annapollock@me.com | Oct 28, 2014 | MOVE
Tell a two year old not to touch something (especially a yummy looking cake); to share their favourite toy; or it’s time for bed, and you’ll likely get an uncensored reaction, possibly a stamping of the feet, a defiant, screaming NO. It’s at this...
by annapollock@me.com | Oct 16, 2012 | Conscious Travel, Indigenous Values, MOVE, Pace
At WINTA’s Indigenous Tourism Forum held as the concluding day of the Adventure Travel World Summit 2012, my role was to explain why Indigenous Tourism is an approach whose time has most definitely come (slide deck here). When guests are received and hosted by...
by annapollock@me.com | Aug 27, 2012 | MOVE
It was November 2001 at WTM and we were reeling from the impact of 9/11 and the aftermath of the dotcom crash. Thousands of IT specialists were out of work; CRM was the latest “new thing” as were XML, “web services” and...
