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Climate Smart Sustainable Tourism Forum is being held in observance of International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development and will bring together local, regional, and international representatives from public and private sector tourism entities, as well as development agencies that offer programming in sustainable tourism, for three days of interactive engagements.
Major elements will include best practice sharing and strategic consultations for a CTO climate adaptation project funded by the Caribbean Development Bank, in order to strengthen holistic destination management approaches in the Caribbean.
“The CTO is honoured to partner with St. Kitts and Nevis to host this forum, which will explore various facets of sustainable tourism, in view of the threats and opportunities for regional tourism development, as a result of climate variability and climate change,” said Amanda Charles, the CTO’s sustainable touris
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Many travelers have been reflecting on how they interact with the world over the past year due to the forced hiatus caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. For Samantha Bray, managing director of The Center for Responsible Travel (CREST), the idea of adjusting one’s own behaviors and decisions in relation to the impact of travel has always been at the forefront of her mind.
“Because travel is of course meant to be a fun activity, it is often misunderstood as being simple. It’s not,” Bray says. “It’s extremely complex and requires tremendous coordination between public, private, and civil sectors, involving environmental, social, cultural, and economic components. It traverses various other industries, including transportation, infrastructure, energy, waste management, education, and cultural heritage.”