Tourism

Maldives future development is about more than tourism and tourist growth. Dr waheed talks about maldives resorts, hotels and economic development.

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http://www.weforum.org/tourism 04.03.2008
Thea Chiesa, Associate Director, Head of Aviation, Travel and Tourism Industries and Jennifer Blanke, Senior Economist of the World Economic Forum comment on the findings of the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2008.

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http://www.weforum.org/tourism 28.02.2007
World Economic Forum Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report. The entire report is online at http://www.weforum.org/ttcr08browse/index.html.

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Welcome to our CoaST film! The film is a collaboration project between CoaST Ambassadors, CoaST Members and our filmakers James Ellwood and Matt Pontin. We hope you enjoy it and if you have any queries please contact us, see the end of the film for our contact details. So, what do we do? We work with everyone (from cake-makers to photographers, campsites to recycling collectors, community groups, hotels, colleges, universities, beach cafes, designers and beer brewers) to ensure tourism delivers social, economic and environmental benefit for all, as well as a fantastic holiday for all our visitors. We started in Cornwall; and we’ve gone viral, with members collaborating on our on-line One Planet Tourism network from across more than 50 counties. It’s all about One Planet Tourism: tourism operating within its environmental, social and economic means, and providing environmental, social and economic benefit. Where-ever you’re based, where you are is a fantastic place to visit, to live and to work; it’s even better when we do it within our resources. And we absolutely believe that as there isn’t one single way of making everything right overnight, that every single small thing adds up to make that big difference.

Small steps. Big impact. And that takes us towards One Planet Tourism. As one member says, it now involves us all working together – Way Beyond Tourism.

A sustainable tourism industry: one hotel, one campsite, one boat-ride, one meal, one journey, one visitor, one holiday at a time. Which means all businesses, and groups, and communities, from all tourism and non-tourism sectors, working collectively. And our job at CoaST is to try and help that happen. By collaboration, and collective clout.

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http://www.weforum.org/tourism 07.03.2008
***The audio gets better at 15 minutes into the panel.***
Environmental Sustainability as a way to ensure National Travel &Tourism Competitiveness
Enlightened self-interest dictates that countries which want their travel and tourism industries to be more competitive, at a time of economic downturn, need to address the issue of environmental sustainability. The World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2008 provides analysis and guidance on the tough challenges facing the industry, with environmental sustainability at the forefront. Taking the report as a starting point, the panel of experts discusses the importance of the link between sustainability and competitiveness to the future of the travel and tourism industry.

Jean Claude Baumgarten, President World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC)
Jennifer Blanke, Director and Senior Economist, World Economic Forum
Allan Flores, General Manager, Costa Rica Tourist Board (ICT)
Geoffrey Lipman, Assistant Secretary-General, UNWTO
Jürgen Ringbeck, Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

Moderator
Louisa Bojesen, Presenter, CNBC Europe

Duration : 0:59:35

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Geechee Kunda
Riceboro, GA
April 18-21, 2008

A coalition of partners from NC, GA, AL, and TN including the Coastal African American Arts Network, McIntosh SEED, the Black Belt Community Foundation, Geechee Kunda, and SRDI (more)

Duration : 0:9:59

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