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New Kerala Tourism campaign: Copy cat or creativity unleashed?
September 28, 10
Tuhina Anand
Kerala Tourism has come out with its new international campaign – ‘Your moment is waiting’ – which is evincing some extreme reactions. While some have loved it, there are those who just abhor it and find it appalling. The ad has also drawn a lot of flak for its experimentation, as some feel it’s not the Kerala that they know of. Also, there have been parallels drawn with another campaign, incidentally for Mexico Tourism, Estrellas del Bicentenario
Tourism leave our coasts alone! A call to protect India’s coastal ecology from irresponsible and unregulated tourism
EQUATIONS statement on World Tourism Day 27 September 2010
The High Level Dialogue on Tourism, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, the host of the WTD celebrations, will reportedly debate issues ranging from the economic value of biodiversity for tourism, to how to integrate biodiversity protection into planning for sustainable tourism. We wonder, if apart from the UNWTO itself, anyone else actually believes its propaganda!
TOURISM AND BIODIVERSITY: NATURAL ALLIES? Crucial Questions for the Tourism Industry
World Tourism Day Statement, 2010
ECOT-Ecumenical Coalition on Tourism
Tourism has turned biodiversity into one of its most marketable assets. Images of the natural environment, unspoiled rainforests, crystal clear waters, wild life in their natural habitat are a standard fare in the myriad tourism advertising programmes such as Incredible India and Amazing Thailand, drawing visitors to all parts of the world.
An Open Letter to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) regarding the decision to hold the annual OECD Tourism Conference in 2010 in Jerusalem
Statement issued by:
Alternative Tourism Group
Ecumenical Coalition on Tourism and
Kairos Palestine
We are amazed and appalled at your announcement that the OECD Tourism Committee will hold its annual Conference in Jerusalem in October 2010. It appears that the OECD and the deliberative processes within it seem to have belittled the sensitivity and seriousness of the conflict between Palestine and Israel. Perhaps without intending to do so, it appears by its action that the OECD is siding with one party in a dispute whose ramifications are significant for peace in the whole world, especially in the Middle East.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND TOURISM: CALL FOR ACTION BY CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS
COP15, 7-18 December 2009
A Statement by the Ecumenical Coalition On Tourism (ECOT), endorsed by Acció per un Turisme Responsible (ATR), Alba Sud, Alternative Tourism Group (ATG), Asian Muslim Action Network, Asian Resource Foundation, Caritas Asia, Christian Conference of Asia, Coastal Development Partnership (CDP), Commission on Justice, Peace and Creation of National Council of Churches India (NCCI), Echoway, EQUATIONS,Imagine Peace, KABANI‐ the Other Direction, Korea Anabaptist Centre, Mangrove Action Project (MAP), Pacific Conference of churches (PCC), Peace for Life (PfL), Christian Church of Bali (GKPB), Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Manajemen Dhyana Pura (STIM DP– School of Advanced Scientific Management).
Zones of Contestation: Call For a Moratorium on Mega-Resorts
Kerala Tourism Watch has endorsed the Call for Action on Mega Resorts issued by the Global Tourism Interventions Forum.
For further details and to endorse this campaign, write to:
EQUATIONS, #415, 2nd C-cross, 4th main, OMBR Layout, Banaswadi
Bangalore 560043, India (Telephone: +91-80-25457607/25457659
Fax: +91-80-25457665)E-mail: campaigns@equitabletourism.org
URL: www.equitabletourism.org Or tourism investigation & monitoring team (tim-team), P.O. Box 51 Chorakhebua, Bangkok 10230, Thailand, Email: timteam02@yahoo.com, Webpage: http://www.twnside.org.sg/tour.htm
Scott Free! Protecting Children against Sexual Exploitation in Tourism: Challenges and Imperatives in the Indian Situation Equations, March 2009
Equations, March 2009
A Handbook for Waste Management in Rural Tourism Areas: - A Zero Waste Approach
by Shibu K. Nair and C.Jayakumar
December 2008
This hand book is being published to help NGOs and Local Governments to assist communities to manage discards in the ETP sites. The hand book will also help develop a sustainable plan in these sites to deal with waste so that it will not distract visitors or deny them the special experiences of the unique sites in rural India.
Responsible tourism: prospects and dangers
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 BRP Bhaskar The government’s primary duty is to make sure that development of tourism does not endanger Kerala’s precarious ecological balance. It must never be forgotten that what propels the private sector forward is the profit motive. If the authorities do not closely monitor and regulate their activities, the natural beauty that attracts tourists may be lost in no time. |
Call from the South: North Needs to Cool it: People's Statement on Climate Change
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Jointly issued by Tamil Nadu Environment Council (TNEC) and EQUATIONS, India at the UNFCCC COP held at Bali, Indonesia, December 2007 It is often argued that there are many communities in the world whose livelihoods depend on tourism thereby attempting to provide a justification to increased air travel. Local communities dependent on tourism as the main economic activity should rethink their disproportionate reliance on tourism that leaves them extremely vulnerable and revert to sustainable forms of livelihoods.We seek an end to all market based mechanisms, including those for conservation, and especially to the carbon markets and carbon credit mechanisms. |
