Tourism Insights 2021
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Announcements
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Jan
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Nov
Eco Adventures ltd receives sustainability qualification recognition by STTA
Press Release Nairobi, Kenya ECO ADVENTURES LTD RECEIVES SUSTAINABILITY QUALIFICATION RECOGNITION BY STTA 17th November 2020 Eco Adventures Ltd has received STTA qualification for sustainable tourism. The Eco Conscious tourism company was awarded Sustainability Passport on 17th...
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Nov
Training Partnership With Green Globe Academy
Green Globe Academy and Sustainable Travel and Tourism Agenda(STTA) are proud to announce a training partnership to encourage more young people to be in the frontline of sustainable tourism development. The partnership will give youth, who are...
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14
Aug
Sustainable Tourism Report East Africa- Call for Submissions for Issue 9
What is fueling exclusion of coastal communities from tourism benefits? The Blue Economy and Sustainable Coastal tourism is the focus of Issue 9 of Sustainable Tourism Report East Africa. It remains a concern why coastal destinations in...
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12
Mar
Kenyan College Students Adding their Voices to the Sustainable Tourism Agenda
Sustainable Travel & Tourism Agenda (STTA), a Kenyan founded sustainable tourism organisation, in celebration of 2017, the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development (IYSTD2017), has designed a campaign to get student voices heard. The campaign, dubbed...
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Briefs: Tourism During Covid-19
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Monthly Digest
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Publications
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EA Sustainable Tourism Reports
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16
Mar
Responsible Planning and Management of Mountain and Forest Based Activities
Introduction The origin of mountain tourism dates back to 1336, when an Italian poet, Francesco Petrach, ascended mount Ventoux in France, and wrote a poem about it. Later on, mountain tourism became a popular activity in the...
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16
Feb
Green Practices in Tourism for Sustainability
Introduction This seminar marked the start of the 4th year of inspiring a new generation of tourism professionals through monthly inter university seminars on sustainable tourism. Green practices aim at reducing environmental impact of different operations in...
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22
Oct
Developing Resilient Coastal Tourism Destinations
Introduction SDG 14, Life below water, requires tourism to increase economic benefits to small island destinations and least developed countries in target 14.7. For tourism, oceans are holiday destinations, a source of income, a vital protein source...
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01
Oct
Luxury and Sustainable Hospitality
Introduction Luxury is the ability to offer extremely differentiated products, with excellent quality, exclusivity, uniqueness, rarity and craftsmanship. Luxurious hospitality has inbuilt sustainability attributes is resilient and less wasteful. Thus it does not have to keep changing...
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01
Oct
Tourism and Climate Change Adaptation
Introduction In 2015, United Nations member states adopted a set of 17 aspirational Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as part of their agenda for sustainable development. SDG 13 calls for us to “Take urgent action to combat climate...
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01
Oct
Sustainable City Based Tourism
Introduction The future of city based tourism is anchored on SDG 11, Sustainable cities and communities. This challenges policy makers to come up with better frameworks that support sustainable city based tourism planning and management. Cities are...
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01
Oct
Tourism Development Disruptions and Management
Introduction Disruptor means something that alters or destroys known structures. Is sustainability at the core of disruptions in tourism or will it be affected by disruptions? These is the main question that was to be answered at...
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01
Oct
Quality Education Access and Sustainability of Tourism
Introduction The 17 Sustainable Development goals by the United Nations (UN), are an urgent call for action by all countries, to build a better place, for people and planet by 2030. SDG 4 calls for all of...
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01
Oct
Creating Value for Host Communities and Suppliers
Introduction Shared value in tourism is about companies achieving economic successes, through an approach that simultaneously creates co benefits for sustainable development of communities. Successes of tourism and social development are inter dependent. So tourism should promote...
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01
Oct
Measuring and Reporting Net Impact of Tourism
Introduction Information on measuring tourism impacts can inform planning, management and promotion of tourism at policy and business level. This information also justifies tourism importance to Sustainable Development. Tourism may be making significant contribution to the economy,...
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01
Oct
Sustainable and Innovative Tourism Experiences for the Blue Economy
Introduction Innovation means doing something better or differently than in the past, and creating value for which customers will pay. Experiences innovation means constantly evaluating and improving where need be, what we are doing today to ensure...
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01
Oct
Designing Sustainable Experiences Around Attractions
Introduction The success of any attraction is in its ability to create an environment that offers visitors the opportunity to have experiences they consider engaging, positive and memorable. Consuming tourism is all about consuming experiences. Destination experience...
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07
Dec
Achieving Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in Tourism Development
Introduction The 17th STTA change makers at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, which was held on November 24th 2018, brought out discussions on how to spread benefits of tourisms growth equitably across diverse interest groups in the...
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30
Oct
What is the Future for Sustainable Tourism
Introduction One thing that we know for a fact is that travel will not stop. We have already surpassed 1 billion international travelers per year in less than 4 decades and the forecast is that the number...
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08
Oct
The Role of Communities in Sustainable Tourism
Introduction Local communities or host communities are the original inhabitants of a tourism destination. They are the people who have lived in these destinations before tourism, deriving a livelihood from the resources and managing and shaping the...
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17
Sep
Innovating for Sustainable Cultural Tourism; Nomadic cultural experiences
Introduction Culture is defined as ideas, beliefs, social behavior and a way of life that is shared among a group of people. Culture can be passed down from one generation to the next. It can be manifested...
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From our Blogs
06
Feb
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM 101
Community Integration in Tourism Creates Diverse and Authentic Guest Experiences When host communities are not integrated in tourism by design through policy and business culture, they find ways to engage. Usually they fall short of conventional sector...
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21
Aug
Balancing Industrialization and Wildlife Conservation (Page 47. 2018 Africa Tourism Monitor)
Discourse abounds on the prioritization of wildlife conservation and industrialization. The jury is still open on whether wildlife conservation is an economic sector, system of access and allocation of resources, a set of ethics, or land use....
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08
Aug
Consumptive Wildlife Utilization – A Deadly Gamble for Kenya
The proposal for consumptive wildlife utilization is a deadly gamble for Kenya. Conservation in Kenya has historically faced policy and governance failures that have led to dramatic loss of wildlife and wildlife habitats over the years. This...
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06
Aug
#PlasticfreeMICE – Ditching single use plastic items from our meeting rooms is possible
The Meetings Incentive Conferences and Events segment of tourism, also know as MICE could have a significantly larger environmental footprint than other segments of tourism. But it is rarely addressed when sustainable tourism is addressed. There are...
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15
May
Being a Responsible Business – Perspectives from Inge Huijbrechts, Vice President of Responsible Business at Carlson Rezidor Group
Inge Huijbrechts believes that sustainability is a non-competitive space. Everyone / everybusiness can engage. In this report, first published in EA Sustainable Tourism Report, Issue 6, Judy Kepher-Gona, captures highlights of an interview with Inge Huijbrechts, Vice President...
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28
May
Obstacles in Transforming Tourism Sector into a RPI Industry
Obstacles in Transforming Tourism Sector into a Real People Impact (RPI) Industry Sustainable tourism has received a vote of confidence from United Nations. 2017 has been declared International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. It is the...
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27
May
Unethical CSR- Intentional Fraud and Ignorance?
It is a shame to write about unethical CSR in this time and age when information is readily available on what businesses can and should do for ethical CSR. Tourism in particular has hundreds of indicators, awards and...
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25
May
Going green is expensive-Why does the perception persist?
More than 15 years ago, when i worked with experts and Kenya’s tourism fraternity to set up the eco-certification scheme for accommodation facilities in Kenya, cost of going green is one concern that emerged during every stakeholder...
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29
Apr
It isn’t Easy Being Green – The good and not too good practices in sustainable tourism
It has always been my conviction that what determines the sustainability index of a business is what they do, that which can be and has been verified and not what they say they do or what they...
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26
Feb
Is the Safari itinerary in Kenya Promoting Ecotourism
Kenya remains a top safari destination in Africa despite stiff competition from Southern Africa and Tanzania. It is widely acknowledged that the Kenyan safari received a massive boost from the movie “Out of Africa”. The safari became associated with a...
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