Guest-blogger, Gerhard Buttner, on responsible tourism in his original home city and web 2.0:
After the rapid massive rise of international tourism in the 1990's, Cape Town is successfully positioning itself as a leader for “Responsible Tourism in Cities” in the 21st century. More on the website: http://www.responsiblecapetown.co.za/
As born Capetonian (though presently living away from my home city) I am very pleased to see Cape Town take this role seriously by focusing on economic, social and environmental aspects of responsible and sustainable tourism. Appropriately Cape Town was the host of the Responsible Tourism in Destinations Conference in 2002 which led to the Cape Town Declaration on sustainable and responsible tourism striving towards creating “better places for people to live in and for people to visit” and a lot has happened since then.
Cape Town will again be in the responsible tourism limelight 14 to 18 February at the 3rd Responsible Tourism Week organized by planeta.com (the global journal of practical ecotourism ) with worldwide participation - including Capetonians - on web 2.0: #rtweek2011.
Capetonian responsible tourism pioneers, leading thinkers and innovators are also specifically invited to share their stories.
Follow the action at the above links and also watch this blog for follow-up posts.
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Thank you for this preview of Responsible Tourism Week. We look forward to hearing stories of responsible travel in Africa (and elsewhere around the world).
Photos are also welcome on the Ecotourism Africa Flick Group http://www.flickr.com/groups/ecotourismafrica
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