Animals in Tourism 2017
Annual-Report-2006
Annual-Report-2007
Annual-Report-2008
Annual-Report-2010
Annual Report 2011
Annual Report 2012
Annual-Report-201415
Annual Report 201516
Annual Report 201617
Beyond the Green Horizon 1992 extracts
Briefing autumn 2011
Briefing late 2003
Briefing spring 2003
campaigns all inclusives
campaigns human rights 2009 pdf
campaigns Kerala backwaters
campaigns London Hotels 2018 pdf
campaigns orphanages tourism
campaigns trekking
Cruise Tourism 2016
dilemmas Airbnb
dilemmas cruises
dilemmas flying
dilemmas human rights violations
dilemmas volunteering 2017
Human Rights Industry Briefing 2011
Human Rights & Tourism 2009
Indigenous peoples 2017
In Focus autumn 2003
In Focus autumn 2010
In Focus magazine Autumn 2010
In Focus magazine Spring 2004
In Focus spring 2007
In Focus summer 2004
In Focus summer 2010
In Focus Summer 2011
In Focus winter2005
In Focus winter 2006
In Focus winter 200910
International Volunteering 2007
International Volunteering 2007
Kerala Houseboats Code 2015
Our Holidays In Their Homes flyer 2009
Slum Tourism 2016
The Gapyear & International Volunteering Standard
Tourism Concern's story.docx
Water Equity in Tourism 2012
WorkingConditions in Hotels 2014
Tourism Concern Archive
Overview
These resources were published by the nonprofit Tourism Concern.
Introduction to this British NGO's thirty years of campaigning on tourism and development
This section tells the story of how a small group of people took on a giant industry and made change happen. The documents that Tourism Concern left behind are still so relevant that it seems important to ensure a new generation of critical thinkers and activitists has access to them. The words and images in the resource appeared on a website, now vanished, so what you have here is the original Word document.
Tourism and Human Rights
These reports exposed how tourism policy and practice was trampling on the human rights of communities all over the world. More than ten years after the first was published and five years after Tourism Concern closed, the issues raised remain disturbingly similar. The later report indicates how the tourism industry can work to improve human rights.
Tourism and Water Equity
Water scarcity has affected tourism destinations in hot, dry countries for decades, and it's the local people around the resorts that lose out. How to tackle this? Should swimming pools take precedence over water provision in surrounding communities?
This report was the result of a partnership that came up with proposals that could still be activated, to everyone's benefit.
Tourism and Cruise Ships
The global cruise industry has mushroomed in the past twenty years, its impact on the sea, on its workers and on the ports used has been allowed to mushroom too with little regulation to halt the havoc caused. This report sets out the issues.
Tourism and All Inclusives
The rise of self contained all inclusive resorts began around the time that the cruise industry began to take off. There are similarities between them, in that for both cases, while purporting to give clients control of their budgets, a company's aim is to keep clients' discretionary spending as much 'in house' as possible. In the casee of all inclusives, this has inevitable consequences for the area where the resort or hotel is situated, limiting the possibilities for enterprising local people to at least get some benefit from providing services and souvenirs to visitors.
There are good models around in the 2020s where linkages with the local community are made and encouraged, going beyond the obvious one of employment. But the experience of the host community is seldom taken into account when new developments open.
The first of two reports on resorts from the 2010s uncovered working conditions in hotels that are still all too common. The second reveals clients' own very mixed reactions to the enclave model.
Tourism and Communities
At the heart of Tourism Concern's campaigns and research over thirty years was the unacknowledged negative impact of the tourism industry, at all levels, on the people living in the places where we travel and take our holidays:
Issues such as the diminishing quality of their lives; the loss of amenities, land, liveliehoods, cultural and spiritual capital; the social costs, as opposed to the benefits that flow from developing tourism in their area.
The reports here cover a small number of the campaigns we ran, laying out issues andf also proposing how to do things better..
Tourism and Volunteering
What began in 1970s UK as a trickle of young people looking for a worthwhile way to pursue their dreams of travel, through charitable groups such as VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) was by the 2000s a flood. Encouraged by tourist companies with commercial not charitable aims, people of all ages were doing voluntary work alongside their holidays, all over the world. The impact on the communities they stayed in was often not benign, if not harmful.
Tourism Concern produced two reports on this phenomenom, campaigning to raise awareness of the issues and in the 2010s working with companies to improve their practices.
Tourism and Animal Welfare
The last report produced by Tourism Concern before its closure in 2018 characteristically highlighted an issue that was just beginning to come to the fore - the disgraceful way that animals were being treated by different sections of the global tourism industry. As ever, it delineated the problem, then set out how it could be tackled.
Annual reports
What was happening in the world of tourism in the early 2000s? What new issues and challenges for host communities were arising as the first decade gave way to the second? Tourism Concern's annual reports provide a fascinating answer to these questions.
Campaigns and Dilemmas
The annual reports in the previous Section 10 record the many different campaigns Tourism Concern conducted.
On its website short reports gave browsers a taste of what the issues were. There were also answers to dilemmas faced by new forms of tourism. The selection of website articles here are all still relevant to the world of tourism in the 2020s, the issues they raise still needing local champions and global advocates to take them on.
In Focus magazines
This is a selection of the regular magazines, plus shorter briefings, produced by Tourism Concern for its members. The issues they outline introduce or update campaigns and education work.