LIZE BARCLAY: Greener, smarter and safer tourism for a better future for all

Cape Town is one of SA's top destinations for overseas tourists. Picture: IMEISPENCER/123RF

The tourism industry has a commendable history of embracing responsibilities toward people and the planet in the form of responsible tourism and ecotourism. Unfortunately, there are also still tourist practices that have become increasingly questionable, but on which many communities depend for a livelihood. On the environmental front, tourist practices such as hunting, shark cage diving, walking with elephants and desert 4x4 tours are increasingly seen as unsustainable, unethical and harmful.

The responsibility should lie with the organisations and businesses with the most power to act as custodians in protecting the rights of the people and places with the least power and who are exploited. Worldwide there is a tendency to turn towards tourism to pay for environmental initiatives and preserves. As a society, we will have to explore these complexities and therefore rethink tourism from a circular design to a more ethical and responsible perspective for an ethical, sustainable and green future.

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