IFC project opens doors to ICRT students
4 ICRT students get consultancy opportunities as part of their course through an International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank Group) project to evaluate the sustainability of www.whl.travel a portal that promotes sustainable tourism travel amongst other products. - 16th April, 2008

New jobs for ICRT students
TUI and The Adventure Company responsible tourism positions filled by ICRT current students in Spring 2008 - 16th April, 2008

ICRT doubles its capacity
The ICRT is in the process of recruiting 4 new staff as part of a major phase of expansion. Two Senior Lecturers and two Senior Research Fellows will join the existing team to develop the MSc responsible hospitality management and to continue delivering the consultancy and tourism research and teaching. - 16th April, 2008

responsibletravel.com 7th birthday
When Justin Francis and I launched ResponsibleTravel.com back in 2001 there were only a handful of operators who had committed to the language of Responsible Tourism although later that year the Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO)  committed their membership to the principles of Responsible Tourism. - 6th April, 2008

Responsible tourism forum opens
The Responsible Tourism forum, launched by Prof. Harold Goodwin now has the backing from the World Travel Market and has become the meetingn place for organisations proposing events as part of the World Responsible Tourism Day. See it at http://www.artyforum.info/ - 1st April, 2008