by annapollock@me.com | Mar 28, 2017 | Conscious Travel, Growth, Markets, Transformational Travel, Transformative Travel, Value & Views
As predicted earlier, the buzzword “du jour” in tourism is fast becoming transformation. Its predecessor, sustainability, has through over and mis-use become meaningless and ineffective lacking the capacity to lift hearts, inspire hope and, ironically, sustain action....
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 | Sep 21, 2014 | Conscious Travel, MOVE
For three hundred years or so, so-called western society has operated in the world shaped by an Old Story – the story of separation, scarcity, and fear that together generate a need by many to hoard and control. Over the past 60 or more years, that story has been...
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 | Dec 5, 2013 | Conscious Travel, MOVE
A consistent theme of my blog that I hope has not gone unnoticed is that the scope and pace of change is engulfing us all now is unlike anything previously experienced. It’s not just the speed with which a new idea can now catch light and spread – look at...
by annapollock@me.com | Nov 26, 2013 | Conscious Travel, Leadership, MOVE, Value & Views
I recently spoke at the Adventure Travel World Summit 2013 in Namibia urging the members to respond to the acknowledgment made by the Secretary General of the UNWTO, Taleb Rifai, a year prior, that adventure travel was the future of tourism. I suggested that the...
