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Progress in Responsible Tourism

Edited by Harold Goodwin and Xavier Font, Leeds Metropolitan University


About this book | Interested in contributing? | About the editors
New from the International Centre for Responsible Tourism and sponsored by Responsible Travel (www.responsibletravel.com) a twice yearly publication which will chronicle and debate progress in Responsible Tourism. This publication will provide a platform for industry professionals, policymakers, academics and those with research or practice to share.

Progress in Responsible Tourism will record and debate the progress which is being made in the UK and around the world in the implementation of the Cape Town Declaration and its aspiration to see the development of more responsible forms of tourism.




CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1
Font & Goodwin: Editorial; Broderick: Understanding carbon budgets & the Safe Climate Space for Responsible Tourism; Goodwin & Walmsley: Responsible Aviation: Setting the Agenda; Leadlay: Hotel companies & carbon footprints, consensus for clarity; Goodwin: The Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards; Hausler: Creating High-Skill Job Opportunities for Poor Rural Youth in Sri Lanka; Horton: A little responsible tourism is a dangerous thing... Cambodia; Thorne: Selling Culture to Package Tourists in The Gambia; de Vial: Reasons to be Hopeful; Holroyd: & Baddeley: Thomas Cook's Journey to Sustainability; McCaffery: Developing Responsible Tourism at Virgin Holidays; Bah: Responsible Tourism in The Gambia, a work in progress; McGowan: Work in Progress: ICRT Canada; Goodwin: The International Conferences on Responsible Tourism in Destinations 2002-2010


CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2
Green Growth and Travelism: A New Paradigm Geoffrey Lipman, Terry DeLacy, Shaun Vorster, Rebecca Hawkins and Min Jiang; Promises and Progress: International Benchmarking on Sustainable Tourism Hermione Nevill, International Finance Corporation; Positive Connectedness: Encouraging Pro-Environmental Behaviour Change in Responsible Accommodation Christopher Warren, Director, ICRT – Australia; Sustainable Tourism – Achieving the Vision through Team Effort ABTA Destinations and Sustainability Team; Tourcert: Certification for Corporate Social Responsibility in Tourism 89 Ilyta LaCombe, consultant at KATE e.V; The Unsustainability Of Sustainable Tourism Dr Xavier Font, Leeds Metropolitan University and the ICRT; Thomas Cook and Travelife Ruth Holroyd, Thomas Cook; Destinations of Excellence – the Thomas Cook Group; Jo Baddeley, , Thomas Cook UK & Ireland; Tourism – the Next Big Thing in Fairtrade? Notes from Southern Africa; Jennifer Seif, Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa (FTTSA)


CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1
Ten Years of Responsible Tourism: an assessment, Harold Goodwin; Responsible Tourism and Social Media Marketing' Rachel Kennedy, International Centre for Responsible Tourism; The 2012 Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards, Harold Goodwin, Chair of the Judges of the Virgin Holiday Responsible Tourism Awards; Assessing the Impact of Stakeholder Engagement on Perceptions of DMO Performance, Aimee Epp, International Centre for Responsible Tourism; Decent Work and Tourism Wages: An International Comparison, Dr Andreas Walmsley, York St John Universit; The International Tourism Partnership Comes of Age, Stephen Farrant, Director, International Tourism Partnership


CONTENTS VOLUME 3 ISSUE 1: Editorial (Goodwin); Academic Papers: Donor funded tourism projects: factors for success (Xavier Font, Harold Goodwin, and Rachael Walton); Community-based tourism in the developing world: delivering the goods? (Harold Goodwin, Rosa Santilli, and Rebecca Armstrong); The role of conservation agencies in ecotourism: a case study from Central Kalimantan in Indonesia (Astrid J. Øvstetun and Janet Cochrane); Environmental, social and governance communication in investor relations: challenges and opportunities in the travel and tourism sector (Sören Stöber); Dialogic communications: A content analysis of the Australian and Costa Rican official tourism websites (Claudia Pinto Zeballos); Attitudes of Polish owner-managers of agritourism farms and small accommodation businesses towards environmental engagement (Piotr Zientara and Paulina Bohdanowicz-Godfrey); The Awards: The 2013 World Responsible Tourism Awards (Harold Goodwin)



CONTENTS VOLUME 4 ISSUE 1: Introduction, Xavier Font; The 2015 World Responsible Tourism Awards, Harold Goodwin; Why do so-called “sustainable tourism or tourism-related projects” fail or succeed?, Christine Jacquemin and Frédéric Thomas; Risk management and responsible supply chain management in the hospitality industry, Sarah Balet; Extreme weather events and their consequences: Why is the tourism industry not prepared?, Christopher Warren and Caroline Bollrich; Engaging customers through sustainability communications in small tourism accommodation websites, Pablo Pereira; Facilitators and Barriers of Towel Reuse Programmes, Johanna Koehler


If you would like to contribute to Progress, please write with a brief abstract to Harold Goodwin or Xavier Font.
Harold@haroldgoodwin.info X.Font@leedsmet.ac.uk

Interested in contributing?


Contributions are welcome in three categories:
  • Practitioner Papers - Written by those actively engaged in managing tourism or implement Responsible Tourism approaches – 2,000 to 4,000 words with references primarily to grey literature.
  • Academic Papers -Traditional papers with full academic referencing 5,000- 8,000 words
  • Work in Progress - Notes from the Field - Reports on new initiatives, work underway or brief comment pieces. Limited referencing, 400-1,500 words.

We anticipate that there will be a section listing new publications and sources relevant to Responsible Tourism.

Referencing: traditional footnotes, not Harvard this is to make the papers more accessible to a non-academic readership.
Practitioner Papers will be reviewed by the editors. Academic Papers will be blind peer reviewed. Work in Progress and Notes from the Field will be reviewed by the editors. The Journal has an advisory board which has the same composition as the ICRT’s Advisory Committee.

Interested in contributing?


Contributions are welcome in three categories:
  • Practitioner Papers - Written by those actively engaged in managing tourism or implement Responsible Tourism approaches – 2,000 to 4,000 words with references primarily to grey literature.
  • Academic Papers -Traditional papers with full academic referencing 5,000- 8,000 words
  • Work in Progress - Notes from the Field - Reports on new initiatives, work underway or brief comment pieces. Limited referencing, 400-1,500 words.

We anticipate that there will be a section listing new publications and sources relevant to Responsible Tourism.

Referencing: traditional footnotes, not Harvard this is to make the papers more accessible to a non-academic readership.
Practitioner Papers will be reviewed by the editors. Academic Papers will be blind peer reviewed. Work in Progress and Notes from the Field will be reviewed by the editors. The Journal has an advisory board which has the same composition as the ICRT’s Advisory Committee.

About the editors


Harold Goodwin has been at the heart of the movement for Responsible Tourism for the last fifteen years campaigning and working with the industry and governments to develop better forms of tourism in the UK and around the world. Harold is Professor of Responsible Tourism Management and a Director of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism at Leeds Metropolitan University where he teaches and supervises research. He works with governments and intergovernmental organisations, including UNWTO and UNEP, on governance, tourism and local economic development and poverty reduction. He chairs the judges for the Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards and advises ABTA and World Travel Market on Responsible Tourism.

Xavier Font is Director of Studies at the International Centre for Responsible Tourism at Leeds Metropolitan University. He researches and teaches on responsible change as a competitive advantage tool, both for international businesses and small community developments.His research focuses on marketing and management of ecolabels in tourism and hospitality.

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