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...
by annapollock@me.com | Jun 17, 2013 | Conscious Travel, Leadership, MOVE
Most of the public, in the UK especially, has heard of Richard Branson – the flamboyant, fun loving, self-made, successful, philanthropic, provocative, charming entrepreneur; Head of the Virgin Group, and sporting a well deserved reputation for generating publicity,...
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 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...
by annapollock@me.com | Sep 9, 2012 | Biodiversity, Conscious Travel, Leadership, MOVE, Place, Protection
I write this before dawn in Sydney in a modern, sterile hotel room overlooking Botany Bay – the sheltered harbour that James Cook entered some 242 years ago when our current scientific, materialisitic worldview was just entering adolescence. I am sure that, if brought...
