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The cruising industry is two-faced: on the surface, cruises are convenient, exciting holidays with economic benefits. But lurking underneath are its environmental and social impacts.
The University of Cape Town’s new report on the impacts of climate change in South Africa found that heatwaves and water stress will affect jobs, deepen inequality, and increase gender-based violence.
As droughts become more widespread in tourist hotspots, research finds that timers in showers help tourists and university students shorten their showers and save water.
Even self-proclaimed ethical tourism programs can widen economic gaps and harm communities they claim to protect. Here are a few steps you can take as an ethical tourist.
Marine protection represents our best strategy to reverse declining biodiversity. But protected areas also provide a low-tech and cost-effective way for the fishing industry to safeguard stocks.
We analysed hundreds of selfies and found some people were shamed more than others.
A school tour often sits within the itinerary of a tour of southern Africa, or alongside wildlife tourism ventures.
Stress, poor pay and job insecurity are driving professional chefs away from the hospitality industry in Australia and New Zealand. Tourism is also feeling the impact of the looming skill shortage.
Do big sporting events such as the Olympics help boost tourist numbers in the long run? It all depends on where they take place, according to research.
With big events drawing a growing share of of tourism dollars, F1 offers a potential glimpse of the travel industry’s future.
Black travelers want the tourism industry to recognize their full identity. That will require more than procedural checkboxes and targeted advertising.
Tourists can do a number of things to avoid dangerous encounters with monkeys.
Putin is planning to bring a mass tourism industry to Russia’s wild far east.
Dark tourism allows people to understand tragic events, experience a catharsis of emotions related to the deaths at a site and it can help people heal from collective trauma.
The expansion of social media and ubiquity of smartphone cameras has had a major impact on tourists’ behaviour.
Once the immediate crisis in North Queensland has subsided, authorities will need to grapple with how to deal with the ‘new normal’ of extreme weather events. The big question is: are they prepared?
Experimenting with climate messaging reveals the best ways to inspire individual action. Here’s how to talk about the Great Barrier Reef this summer.
The new government is likely to increase the numbers of workers coming to New Zealand on seasonal work schemes. But the impact on Pacific economies and communities is now too great to be ignored.
Some work is already being done to enhance the tourism sector’s environmental sustainability.
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management/ Adjunct Associate Professor, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Tourism, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Massey University
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Professor of Development Studies, Massey University
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Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University
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Professor of Tourism, Griffith University
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Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Heritage, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Tourism, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor of Marketing and Tourism, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Tourism, Victoria University
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