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Ethical Travel Dialogue

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Leading campaigners Tourism Concern and Planeta.com conducted a six-week online dialogue focusing on ethical tourism. The dialogue ran from June 13-July 21, 2006.

Eighteen countries were represented in the dialogue, including Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Bulgaria, Ecuador, England, Ghana, India, Ireland, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Thailand and the United States of America.

Kudos to Valere Tjolle for preparing a summary.

RECOMMENDED READING

Summary: Key Comments from the Ethical Travel Dialogue
Choosing where to go and what to do once you get there
Ethical Travel
Sustainable Tourism Bank Watch
Green Events
Ethical Marketing of Ecotourism
Environmental Impact of Transportation
Ethics Notebook
Ethic of reciprocity - Wikipedia
Travel globally, spend locally - Jeffrey McDonald/Christian Science Monitor
Global Code of Ethics for Tourism - World Tourism Organization
Tricia Barnett Interview - World Vision

ABOUT THE DIALOGUE

The Ethical Travel Dialogue reviewed efforts around the world to make the tourism industry more accountable, more ethical and more satisfying to all.

Ethical, responsible, fair trade, pro poor; call it what you will, ethical tourism is part of today's tourism development agenda. Small community based tourism initiatives market themselves on their ethical credentials and the United Nations strives to implement responsible tourism programmes.

But what is ethical tourism exactly and who gets to decide what is ethical and what isn't?

TOPICS

What is 'ethical' travel?

How can tourism be used to alleviate poverty?

How should ethical products and services be marketed?

How should an ethical traveler select places to visit?

Does global warming make it ethical to travel?

What are the ethics of volunteering?

ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS

Gerhard Buttner - Rosemary Caldicott - Aditi Chanchani - Mary Finn - Xavier Font - Roy Graff - Michael Holland - Guyonne James - Michael Lomotey - Ron Mader - Valere Tjolle - Barbara Tomasella - Carol Tumber - Kristen Wilson

ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS

Tourism Concern is based in London and has been fighting exploitation in tourism and campaigning on ethical and fairly traded for over 15 years.

Planeta.com is an award winning website that has focused on responsible travel since 1994.

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