Delivering Excellence in Tourism Development and Leadership
Travel is the Ultimate Soft Power
Travel is the ultimate agent of soft power. Especially travel to experience other cultural environments to learn and experience more traditional ways of life. It enhances socio-cultural cooperation by creating citizen-to-citizen interactions that lead to greater understanding and appreciation of cultural nuances. But we must be mindful that for all the good travel can do, it can also result in diminished natural resources, increased social disruption, and major infrastructure and/or cost of living increases.
But with it comes Responsibility
It is with these thoughts and issues in mind that the Responsible Tourism Development Academy was established.
Delivered by our team of international experts in their related fields, our suite of courses seek to ensure the future of tourism development follow more responsible, sustainable, and equitable pathways to success that help protect and preserve unique ways of life, traditions and values, whilst seeking to improve the lives and livelihoods of local peoples and communities.
The Responsible Tourism Development Academy is a World Tourism Association for Culture and Heritage Initiative.