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Swim with Dolphins Tourist Trap Leads to Travel Conference Boycott

Video of Brooke MacDonald and Morgan Catch Japanese Fisherman Slaughtering Dolphins — Content Warning: Age Advisory The 2014 Travel Bloggers Exchange, or TBEX, happens this week in Cancun, Mexico. TBEX is the world’s best known travel bloggers conference. Bloggers attend in order to hone their craft and network with each other, destinations, airlines, and other […]

https://ethicaltraveler.org/2014/09/swim-with-dolphins-tourist-trap-leads-to-travel-conference-boycott/

To Boycott or Not to Boycott: The Ethics behind Your Travel Dollars

Ethical travel as a concept is now common discourse, with travelers increasingly asking now they can minimize the impact they have on local communities, as well as expressing growing interest in volunteerism and working with communities to enact change. Travelers hold a unique position of economic power over the whole tourism supply chain—transport, accommodation, hospitality […]

https://ethicaltraveler.org/2013/04/to-boycott-or-not-to-boycott-the-ethics-behind-your-travel-dollars/

The Burma Travel Boycott and the Founding of Ethical Traveler

It’s one of those common fantasy questions. If you could spend half an hour with any person on the planet, who would that person be? At any time during the past two decades, I would have answered without hesitation – Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese democracy leader and 1991 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. […]

https://ethicaltraveler.org/2011/06/the-burma-travel-boycott-and-the-founding-of-ethical-traveler/

Mormons’ Influence on California’s Prop 8 Sparks Call for Utah Tourism Boycott

Activists are calling for a tourism boycott of Utah after the Mormon Church exerted tremendous influence in the passing of California’s Proposition 8 to overturn gay marriage. The church, which counts 62 percent of Utah’s population among its members, pursued an aggressive grassroots strategy in the Yes on 8 campaign, drawing on manpower and donating […]

https://ethicaltraveler.org/2008/11/mormons-influence-on-californias-prop-8-sparks-call-for-utah-tourism-boycott/

Rights Groups Announce Tourism Boycott of Nepal

(Oakland, CA) A worldwide coalition of travelers today announced the first-ever tourism boycott of Nepal. This boycott comes in response to the illegal forced return of Tibetan refugees into the hands of Chinese authorities. California-based Ethical Traveler (www.ethicaltraveler.com) called the boycott. The group is an alliance of travelers formed to use the economic power of […]

https://ethicaltraveler.org/press-releases/rights-groups-announce-tourism-boycott-of-nepa

How to Champion Community Rights while on a Nature Vacation

“We have been residing in this area for decades, and all of a sudden the government told us to vacate,” Rafiz Ali told Reuters journalist Rina Chandran last September. Ali was a community leader in one of three of illegal settler villages in the buffer zone of India’s Kaziranga National Park. In 2016, in an […]

https://ethicaltraveler.org/2017/05/how-to-champion-community-rights-while-on-a-nature-vacation/

Travel in the Age of Trump

“To travel,” Aldous Huxley wrote, “is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” For those of us who have traveled to places with autocratic leadership—like Cuba, China, Burma, or Iran—the wisdom of Huxley’s words is undeniable. Today, the United States itself has become a sketchy destination. Travelers from around the world, put off […]

https://ethicaltraveler.org/2017/03/travel-in-the-age-of-trump/

Brazil Sweeps Away Street Children to Prepare for Olympics

Brazil is working hard to prepare for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Hiring security, building new sports venues and infrastructure, and beautifying the city’s tourist areas are all on the country’s to-do list. As part of the beautification process, known as “cleaning the streets,” Brazil is also removing homeless citizens from the […]

https://ethicaltraveler.org/2016/07/brazil-sweeps-away-street-children-to-prepare-for-olympics/

Would a Trump Presidency Affect International Tourism to the USA?

Tourism is a huge industry in the United States of America (USA), and international arrivals are at an all-time high. In April 2016 alone, international visitors to the USA spent US$21 billion on travel and tourism-related activities. Despite the current boom in international tourism, many professionals in the travel industry think that the trend could […]

https://ethicaltraveler.org/2016/07/would-a-trump-presidency-affect-international-tourism-to-the-usa/

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