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SMARTOUR springing into action at showcase events

SMARTOUR springing into action at showcase events

Last year Touch TD, along with project partners in the UK, Italy and Finland, conducted a widespread survey amongst tourism managers and staff, visitors and residents in destination communities, to discover the priority training needs identified by the sector. Based on those findings, we have produced a series of learning materials, workshops and an interactive […]

Touch TD seeks participants for sustainable tourism survey

Touch TD seeks participants for sustainable tourism survey

Touch TD is a partner in SMARTOUR, a project funded by the European Union which aims to equip managers in the tourism field with the skills to run their businesses sustainably and generate long term benefits for the wider community. As a first step, the project is surveying tourism businesses, visitors, and local residents, in […]

When the community is part of the heritage

When the community is part of the heritage

Cumalıkızık is the best preserved of one of seven historic ‘Kızık’ villages, of which five are still extant, situated in the northern foothills of Uludağ to the east of Bursa and about 10km from the city centre. A Waqf village established by Orhan Gazi with its origins in the 14th century C.E., Cumalıkızık serves as […]

Sharing and caring for heritage around Lake Ohrid

Sharing and caring for heritage around Lake Ohrid

A report on a unique EU funded, UNESCO World Heritage Centre coordinated, project supporting mixed heritage in the Central Balkans 2014-2017. The dramatic landscapes around Lake Ohrid, which form the borderlands between Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, have long been recognized as holding unique values, both in terms of cultural and natural […]

Onboard with Seabourn!

Onboard with Seabourn!

This year luxury cruise company, Seabourn entered a new partnership with UNESCO to support and promote sustainable tourism principles at the world heritage sites visited by its 5 ships. As part of the connection, Seabourn invites ‘distinguished speakers and expert guest lecturers’ to provide its passengers with in-depth insights into the sites visited and around […]

SATTE New Delhi 2014

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 […]

Planning, Forethought and Vision in Icelandic Tourism

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

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 […]