Grassroots Encounters: getting into the mud – Part Two
Part One GETTING INTO THE MUD If we define the boot camp as a field-based learning experience – as Dominic suggested – we can refer to the mud as a metaphor for the amount of learning that the experience provided to our changemakers. In a way, the mud is the proof that the boot camp […]
Grassroots Encounters – Part One
INTRO As a long-time friend of Greg Bagunzi and Red Rocks Rwanda, and an admirer of the work of Judy Kepher-Gona through the STTA in Kenya, I was interested in knowing more about the boot camp that STTA conducted during the annual Cultural Festival at Red Rocks, to which Traveller Storyteller has been a supporting […]
Renewed concepts and new stakeholders at the table – Part 2
Remembering the initial impressions I registered while reading the event schedule, and after having reported the main themes addressed by the conference, I would now like to focus on my personal expectations with regard to a couple of themes that are very close to my heart. LOCAL COMMUNITIES Complying with earlier promises, local communities were […]
Renewed concepts and new stakeholders at the table – Part 1
“We are here to work not to chat” – with these encouraging words Christian Delom opened the doors of A World for Travel, the conference with great ambitions for the future of the travel industry. The promises were kept and, from the very beginning, topped with ambitious hope and a constructive collective energy arriving from […]
The great ambitions of Évora
The great ambitions of Évora – the Davos for Travel and Tourism The current global scenario forces us to acknowledge where we are, and, especially, where we are heading. Time is limited, and the tourism industry has been taken to the corner of the ring, with a sudden push. The climate crisis, the environmental degradation, […]