CONFERENCES
ICRT global holds an annual summit in London in November and in Europe in summer. It also supports the ICRT Network with conferences and events around the world such as activity at ICRTH in Southeast Asia, WTM Africa, ITB Berlin, LATA Expo and BLTM India.
This list summarises the ICRT global events as well as prior International Conferences on Responsible Tourism in Destinations which were run by ICRT global founder Professor Harold Goodwin. He has supported and run International Conferences on Responsible Tourism for more than two decades.
South Africa was the first country to adopt an explicitly Responsible Tourism strategy, challenging the stakeholders to take responsibility for developing forms of tourism that would benefit the new South Africa. In 2002, when the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development took place in Cape Town, Harold founded the Responsible Tourism in Destinations (RTD) series of conferences, with the first International Conference on Responsible Tourism in Destinations taking place in Cape Town in August 2002 as a side event to the world summit.
It was this international conference, attended by 280 delegates from 20 countries, which passed the Cape Town Declaration on Responsible Tourism in Destinations and which founded a movement which challenges all stakeholders to engage with the issues that arise in destinations.
In 2008 a second RTD conference was held in the Indian state of Kerala, and conferences have run regularly since in a different destination, with Harold co-chairing with the local host organisation.
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