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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
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Dear reader, employees working in tourism and hospitality service-providing companies, organisations, and institutions are often overlooked in discussions and recommendations for a more sustainable and regenerative tourism. Not changing the linen in a hotel is an easy way to combine cost reduction and “green” behaviour. Paying fair wages and offering
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Dear reader, the Meaningful Tourism community is growing further and the interest in the Meaningful Tourism paradigm is increasing day by day. We are happy to welcome 12 new Certified Trainers, who successfully finished their certification training today. They are based in countries ranging from Mongolia to Sweden and will
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Dear reader, the Faroe Islands are one of the most beautiful, but also extremely remote, tourist destinations. The upkeep of the sites requires regular maintenance. The local authorities have come up with a special way to change this task from a tedious and expensive burden for the tiny local budgets
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Dear reader, Many cities in Spain, France, Germany and other Central and Southern European countries are experiencing the hottest temperatures in early July, measuring since the beginning of meteorological records. Even the Eiffel Tower had to close because of the heat in Paris. At the same time, Northern Europe is
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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 used fossil
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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
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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
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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
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Meaningful Tourism Weekly Editorial Dear reader, Welcome to the new edition of the Meaningful Tourism Weekly! The Meaningful Tourism paradigm has developed strongly in the months since the Meaningful Tourism Centre moved from Germany to Nepal, and it is time to restart our publication. With more content than ever before,