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Tourism and Tsunami: Destinations Still Disaster Zones
Tuesday, 27 Feb, 2010
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SEE VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH SAJEER: www.travelmole.tv/watch_vdo.php
Five Years On Destinations are still suffering: Tourism Concern Holds London Trade Events to highlight plight.
Tourism Concern’s Tsunami Photo Exhibition kicked off with a no-holds-barred presentation by at the Guardian newspaper offices.
Tourism journalist Jenny Kleeman chaired a panel who laid into the depredations of mass tourism and its effect on local communities all over the world.
The Guardian’s environment editor, John Vidal, chronicled the present and future dangers of tourism on the environment and claimed that mass tourism had almost nothing to recommend it.
Tricia Barnett put the Tsunami damage in perspective and claimed that, two years on local communities were still in danger. She paid tribute to those resisting the powerful developers and government policies that promote tourism at their expense.
Indian tourism activist, Sajeer Abdul Rehman, painted a sad picture of forced evictions, land grabbing, lost livelihoods, misuse of millions of pounds of tsunami aid, poverty and violence – all as a result of tourism development in his home state of Kerala and neighboring Tamil Nadu. (SEE video interview:
The photograph exhibition ‘Destination Tsunami: Stories and Struggles from India’s southern coast’ is on from 23 February – 31 March 2010, The Guardian Gallery, London N1
A trade-only event has been scheduled in London –‘TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: A GRASSROOTS PERSPECTIVE’. Sajeer Rehman of Kabani has been working with coastal communities affected by tourism development in southern India. He will be talking to tour operators and travel agents about his work on the evening of 2nd March 2010 in central London.
The free event is scheduled for:
Time: 6.30pm on 2nd March 2010
Place: BGB Communications, Capital Tower, 91 Waterloo Road, SE1 8RT
Refreshments will be provided
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Register with: [email protected]
Said Debbie Hindle MD of BGB: “Our industry has the potential to make a real difference to peoples’ lives around the world. This Tourism Concern event is guaranteed to be a thought-provoking insight into ways we can make that difference.
Said Tricia Barnet of Tourism Concern "Please join us for this event. It is a unique opportunity to obtain a grassroots perspective on the problems people face as a result of tourism development."
Valere Tjolle
Valere Tjolle is editor of the 2010 Sustainable Tourism Report Suite details at:www.travelmole.com/stories/1141006.php
Valere
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