by annapollock@me.com | Nov 4, 2016 | Growth
What a difference a year, # overtourism and some negative publicity can make. For the past two years I have returned from the World Travel Market with my heart in my boots – see Walking the halls of WTM with hope and despair (2014) and 2015 – Responsible Tourism Day:...
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 | Aug 14, 2014 | Conscious Travel, MOVE
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 urging destinations to develop a climate change strategy....
by annapollock@me.com | May 23, 2013 | MOVE, Protection, Value & Views
Since I watched Rajan Datur’s video coverage of the WTTC Global Summit on Fastrack in Abu Dhabi last month (see last post), I’ve been unable to silence a song from my childhood that replays in my head – Danny Kaye’s musical rendition of the famous tale of Hans...
