Readings
Welcome to our preview of Responsible Travel Week 2021, February 8-14. Hashtag: #rtweek21. This page spotlights features readings and other media including facebook groups, youtube videos, headlines and podcasts reflective of responsible travel. Suggestions are welcome as we create A Responsible Travel Reader for 2021.
Background
Planeta.com invites readers and friends to our annual Responsible Travel Week. 2021 is the 13th year for Responsible Travel Week (RTWeek) and the beginning of Planeta.com‘s 22nd year of innovative, community-driven, listener-supported, online conferencing. This event is mostly digital, free, and open to all.
Headlines
Tourists are welcome in Oaxaca, Mexico. Their increasingly bad behavior is not. – Washington Post – @natbco
How to visit Byron Bay responsibly – @sarahtrvls
2020 wasn’t all terrible. Here’s how travel benefited from a bad year – CNN @joeminihane
Cruise control: pandemic gives locals chance to take ports back from tourists
The Evolving Travel ‘Experience’: Virtual, Actual and In Between – The New York Times
Responsible Tourism: the Elephant in the Room
Public Facebook Groups
Responsible Tourism Networking
Global Ecotourism Network
Local Markets around the World
Mercados de Oaxaca
Slow Adventures
Proposals
Elsewhere on the Web
Responsible Travel Handbook – Transitions Abroad (PDF)
Responsible Travel – Outbounding
2021
Recapping 2020
RTWeek21
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