Tourism Concern’s In Focus: Education, Education and Sustainability
The Winter Issue of Tourism Concern’s In Focus magazine, is
Education, Education and Sustainability
The first step in planning sustainable tourism is learning about it. But all too often sustainable tourism is just an ¡¥add-on¡¦ instead of being fully integrated into education schemes. This issue of Tourism Concern¡¦s magazine, In Focus, looks at education in all its forms ¡V formal, public, education of communities involved in tourism, plus education of the industry and the media.
Features in this issue:
„h Learning for the future: Shirley Eber, Tourism Concern¡¦s consultant for Higher Education discusses the rational of integrating sustainability into the tourism curriculum.
„h The Debate: should sustainability be central to the curriculum: two university lecturers give their views on the extent to which sustainable tourism should be key aspects in the curriculum.
„h Breaking new ground: Tourism Concern¡¦s Higher Education project ¡¥HE21¡¦ has set up a model for universities wanting to improve coverage of sustainable tourism issues.
„h Media interview: Planeta.com¡¦s webhost, Ron Mader, talks about educating the media on sustainable tourism and the media¡¦s role educating the public.
„h A Student¡¦s view: studying sustainable tourism opened up a whole world of understanding of one student¡¦s home country, Turkey.
„h Views from Around the World: workers in Namibia, Brazil, Uruguay and Spain talk about their real life situations and the importance of education.
„h CENTRE CAMPAIGNS PAGES: Trekking Wrongs: Porters¡¦ Rights campaign update ¡V 40 operators now on board; eye-witness accounts of porters deaths on Kilimanjaro.
To discuss the issues covered in this In Focus or to find out more about Tourism Concern, contact editors, Sue Wheat and Shirley Eber at Tourism Concern. 020 7753 3330.
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