The spectacular autumn colours of Atlantic Canada, formed the backdrop to the biennial GGN conference, hosted this year by the Stonehammer Geopark of Saint John and the Bay of Fundy in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. Touch TD again presented results from its on-going work around the world of Geoparks. This time we joined […]
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Theory to Practice study trip in Iceland
Touch TD have been refining their approach to post-graduate heritage and tourism study trips for a number of years now. We draw on active partnerships from live tourism and development projects we have been directly involved in. This is designed to ensure the students are exposed to actual practice with a range of ‘clients’, to […]
SATTE New Delhi 2014
SATTE exhibition and conference is ‘South Asia’s leading travel and tourism event’, and takes centre stage in the heart of New Delhi every January. As part of the busy programme organised and facilitated by UNWTO’s Silk Road programme director, Alla Peressolova, Jonathan was invited to speak on the theme of The Indian tourism jigsaw: Working […]
World Travel Market 2013
Early November every year sees London become the centre of the travel industry, as organisations and destinations from around the globe converge at World Travel Market. Taking full use of this unique situation where the world comes to our doorstep, Touch TD found its diary booked up quickly for a wide range of engagements. As […]
Planning, Forethought and Vision in Icelandic Tourism
At the invitation of the Icelandic Tourist Board Julie gave a keynote paper at their conference Planning, Forethought and Vision in Icelandic Tourism, held in Selfoss this October. The one-day conference tackled the question of how to balance Iceland’s success in growing its tourist numbers with its long-term sustainability, and was a stimulating and well-supported […]
EPIC – the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference
Since 2005, ethnographers and applied anthropologists have been convening to explore and promote the use of social science theory and thick data methods in commercial contexts. Most of these EPIC events have been held in the USA, but in September this year Touch TD joined the international gathering of ethnographers for three days of EPIC […]
12th European Geoparks Network (EGN) conference
Touch TD were pleased to participate again at the EGN conference, hosted this year by the Cilento and Vallo di Diano Geopark in the Campania region of Italy. With the European network now expanded to 58 individual geoparks stretching over all corners of the continent, this annual gathering is the key event to meet, learn […]
PM4SD Training
During the summer Touch TD’s core staff successfully participated in the UK’s first outing of a new project management mechanism and formal qualification process called Project Management for Sustainable Development (PM4SD). This exciting initiative is seeking to ensure that tourism projects are designed and managed more sustainably and build a stronger focus on achieving and […]