Meaningful Tourism Award 2025
Dear reader, “Schumpeter” is the name of the business column in The Economist for a good reason. The Meaningful Tourism paradigm recognizes the key concept of Creative Destruction, which Joseph Schumpeter developed back in 1942, as one of the foundations of a holistic concept for the future sustainable development of
Pakistan Travel Mart
Dear reader, this week, the readers of the Meaningful Tourism Weekly are provided with a head start: You are the first to learn about the start of the Meaningful Tourism Award 2025 and its new format, a day before the official announcement. For the fourth time, the Meaningful Tourism Centre
Sustainable Destinations Forum 2025
Dear reader, at the 25th WTTC Global Summit in Rome, Italy, which ended two days ago, key leaders from the public and private sectors declared that the summit served as a "declaration of our shared commitment to shaping a tourism model that balances growth with responsibility". What a
Africa
Dear reader, Last week was spent by your humble editor in China. After successful talks with our partner for the GITF Guangzhou International Travel Fair 2026 conference and activities in Guangzhou, China provided the usual marvels of modern technology and service orientation. Almost all travel based on electric cars and
PATA Travel Mart 2025
Dear reader, the streets of Kathmandu are full of cars and bikes again and life has gone back to normal. However, the burned-out buildings dotting the capital and many other cities of Nepal are a stark reminder of the unrest in the last week, which led to the fall of
Nepal
Dear reader, the 11th of September, commonly spelt 9/11 in US-American English, is connected to four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks. Nineteen members of the al-Qaeda organisation hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City and
Africa
Dear reader, After Meaningful Tourism being a major topic at conferences and fairs in Hong Kong SAR, Beijing and Bangkok in the month of August, September will see more strategic steps forward for the Meaningful Tourism movement. With the latest group of newly certified trainers, the community has grown to
Vietnam
Dear reader, This week, your humble editor is attending the PATA Travel Mart in Bangkok and actually got a new name. It is a great pleasure to see that Meaningful Tourism is one of the key elements of discussion. The first day of the annual PATA Travel Mart 2025 saw
PATA Travel Mart 2025
Dear reader, as mentioned last week, your humble editor had the honour to be the only international keynote speaker at the Third Yongding River Green Development Forum and the Symposium on Ecological Protection and Green Development with the topic "Ecological Integration - Harmonious Coexistence”, organised by the People'
meaningful tourism for students
Dear reader, your humble editor was back from the 5th International Association of Chinese Tourism Scholars (IACTS) Biennial Conference hosted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management in Hong Kong. However, a colleague from Beijing urgently needed an international tourism expert for another conference in
PATA Travel Mart 2025
Dear reader, first of all, let your humble editor say thank you for the good wishes for the new office of the Meaningful Tourism Centre in Kathmandu. The move went well with only the usual small hiccups with the installation of the internet connection, so we can continue to serve
employees
Dear reader, Last week, we discussed the fact that employees working in tourism and hospitality service-providing companies, organisations, and institutions are often overlooked in discussions and recommendations for a more sustainable, responsible, or regenerative tourism. Increasing levels of staff shortages around the world have been the consequence of this, especially