by annapollock@me.com | Jan 10, 2017 | Conscious Travel Vision, DMO, Growth, Paradigm
Two important, but unheralded, events took place in 2016 that give me cause for optimism as we start a new year. First, the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) – the self-proclaimed Authority for Tourism – released an article and video acknowledging that...
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 | May 16, 2013 | Conscious Travel, Leadership, MOVE, Protection, Purpose
For as long as I have been working in tourism, I have heard its “leaders” (presumed by society to be the heads of global agencies or multinationals) complain of a lack of media attention and the failure of governments to take it seriously or to give its tourism...
by annapollock@me.com | Dec 18, 2012 | MOVE, Protection
I am grateful to the folks at Coast – One Planet Tourist Network for pointing me to the Dec 11th article in Travel Mole that was published two days before UNWTO launched its campaign celebrating the recording of 1 Billion international trips – see previous...
by annapollock@me.com | Dec 12, 2012 | Leadership, MOVE, People, Protection, Purpose
As I am an optimist by necessity and an altruist by choice, I’ve no desire to criticize the sentiment behind UNWTO’s campaign http://1billiontourists.unwto.org/. Hopefully it will also get the millions of hosts – many of whom are struggling right now...
