Dear reader, Recent days and weeks have provided a stark, if unwanted, reminder of the fact that without peace, there is no tourism possible, even beyond the level that without adaption to the inevitable consequences of a climate change, there is no tourism as we know it in the past
Dear reader, Your humble editor hopes that you all had the opportunity today to join the Meaningful Tourism for Africa Webinar, organised by the Meaningful Tourism Centre, the Africa Tourism Research Network and the Institute for Tourism. If not, you can find a video recording of the complete webinar on
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Pinzgauer Wohnstube – A Meaningful Response to the Housing Challenge Addressing the Local Housing Crisis in a Tourism Landscape In the picturesque municipality of Leogang, nestled in Austria’s Pinzgau region, a pressing issue was emerging. As tourism flourished, so did the number of second homes and the cost of living—
Strong rain and hail never seen before is flooding Alexandria in Egypt, hailstones the size of golf balls injure people in Germany, monsoons start way to early in India and Nepal, complete Swiss Alps village covered by 20 meter thick layer of glacier ice and stones, Sevilla in Spain reaching
Dear reader, in this edition, your humble editor yields the stage to PaJohn Dadson, a colleague from The Business and Financial Times, the major business newspaper in Ghana, affectively known as B&FT. Following the Webinar MEANINGFUL TOURISM ECONOMY – A VISION FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE, organised by MTC in
Dear reader, your humble editor is back from an exciting visit to Guangzhou and the GITF Guangzhou International Travel Fair 2025. The “other half” of the Meaningful Tourism Centre, the COTRI China Outbound Tourism Research Institute, organised again successfully the conference accompanying the fair. This year, however, for the first
Dear reader, this edition finds your humble editor in Guangzhou in the south of China at the GITF Guangzhou International Travel Fair 2025. The “other half” of the Meaningful Tourism Centre, the COTRI China Outbound Tourism Research Institute, is organising since many years the conference accompanying the fair. This year,
Dear reader, the last stage of the trip in the past weeks brought your humble editor back to his hometown Berlin. Invited by the EIIET European Institute of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology, a lecture was given to a local audience and also to online participants with the title Shaping the
EDITORIAL Dear reader, spending more than 30 hours on aircrafts in the last 20 days to be part of four conferences and about 50 face-to-face meetings with partners, colleagues and old and new Meaningful Tourism trainers, the need to speed up the introduction of SAF instead of currently
Meaningful Tourism Weekly Editorial PATA DECLARES MEANINGFUL TOURISM AS THE VISION OF THE ORGANISATION Dear reader, this week your humble editor is very proud to present a Special Edition of the Meaningful Tourism Weekly. We have decided to dedicate this entire publication in this week for the major step forward
Meaningful Tourism Weekly Editorial Dear reader, a warm welcome to the third edition of the Meaningful Tourism Weekly. If you are one of our many new subscribers, please also have a look at the previous editions, if you were among the first 100 subscribers, congratulations to your quick recognition of
Meaningful Tourism Weekly Editorial Dear reader, First of all, a big Thank You! for all the positive feedback and the encouragement your humble editor and the Meaningful Tourism Weekly team and authors received. The first issue found already a lot of readers and subscribers. We are continuing to work on