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 | 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 20, 2013 | MOVE
This post is an addendum to the previous post On Being, Seeing, Doing People often travel to “get away”, “pause”, “chill”, “escape”, reflect. Trips away often act as punctuation marks in the narrative of our lives...
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...
