The issues explained
Displacement, exploitation, environmental damage- Find out about all the key issues in our quick interactive guide.
Travel Dilemmas
Tourists are presented with with a raft of tricky ethical dilemmas. Here we give a selection and invite you to have your say...
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See what life is like for Kenyan hotel workers and those affected by the tsunami in our online exhibitions.
Ethical Travel Guide Membership Offer
Not yet a member of Tourism Concern? Buy a copy of our new Ethical Travel Guide and you’ll get 6 months free membership. Read more
Now in its second edition, the new and improved Ethical Travel Guide has grown and now includes more than 400 places in over 70 countries, offering a range of trips that are enriching and fun while also bringing vital benefits to local people.
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Social justice for tsunami survivors
Tourism Concern is campaigning to protect the rights of communities devastated by the 2004 tsunami in India and Sri Lanka from unsustainable tourism developments, which are threatening both their homes and their livelihoods.
UK tour operators still supporting Burma’s dictatorship
UK tour operators are using hotels and resorts with known links to Burma’s military dictatorship. This includes establishments listed under European trade sanctions because they are owned or directed by members of the regime and their associates.
Tourism Concern is urging tour operators to stop going to Burma until democracy has been restored. We are calling on the UK Government to fulfil its legal obligations by implementing legislation that reflects the European trade restrictions.
Download the briefing here | Read more on our Burma Campaign
Global tourism in figures
- Global Tourism worth US$ 733 billion (2006)
- Tourism employs 8% of the global workforce
- 1.6 billion international tourists by 2020
Unregulated tourism development is continuing to devastate environments, degrade cultures and destroy traditional livelihoods.
Find out what we do to make sure the benefits of tourism are felt by all...
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