Equality in Tourism

Congratulations to our Associate Marina Novelli on her recent inaugural lecture at the University of Brighton on ‘Travel and Tourism in the Age of Sustainability’. Marina was recently appointed Professor of Tourism and International Development and her lecture highlighted the many practical projects on which she has worked and advised in her career so far. One such example was Basecamp Maasai Mara in Kenya, which – against all cultural barriers – was the first to have a woman as the…

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  We’re delighted to welcome Hazel Tucker to our global network of Associates. Hazel is Associate Professor in Tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where she specialises in tourism’s influences on socio-cultural relationships and change. This has recently included research in Cappadicia, central Turkey, exploring issues concerning gender and women’s involvement in tourism work, host-guest interaction and tourism representations and identity in relation to World Heritage. Read her full profile here.

Our Associate Rebecca Armstrong recently represented Equality in Tourism as one of over 30 civil society organisations involved in producing the Berlin Declaration on “Transforming Tourism” presented at ITB Berlin. Meeting in the UNWTO International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development and against the background of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, the working group emphasised that whilst tourism is specifically included in the 2030 Agenda – an acknowledgement of the sector’s global significance – “for tourism to…

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  On 14 March, our Director Dr Stroma Cole was a guest lecturer at the Tourism and Social Justice Symposium at the Australia and International Tourism Research Unit at MONASH University in Melbourne, Australia. Her presentation Tourism, Water and Social Justice in Bali explored how, whilst governments and international organisations fanatically measure tourism in terms of arrival numbers and revenue, no one is measuring whether it has a detrimental impact on the very resources that sustain both residents and tourists. Stroma’s seminar…

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Misi, a small Turkish village about a two hours’ drive south of Istanbul, was losing much of its local population, heritage and future due to a variety of factors common to modern times. The traditional sericulture and silk making activities which made their village prosperous during the Ottoman era came to an end with globalization and the import of cheap silk products. With the land prices skyrocketing, the traditional village came to the brink of disappearing altogether. Tourism offered a…

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