The 2014 World Responsible Tourism Awards Harold Goodwin, Professor of Responsible Tourism at Manchester Metropolitan University and Chair of the Judges of the World Responsible Tourism Awards. Correspondence author: harold@haroldgoodwin.info The 2014 World Responsible Tourism Awards, sponsored by the Sultanate of Oman Ministry of Tourism attracted significantly more nominations from Africa and Latin America than in previous years and that is reflected in the winners. In the 11th year of the Awards we have extended their reach, in no small part due to the decisions made by World Travel Market to extend the Responsible Tourism Programme run at WTM London since 2007, to WTM Africa and WTM Latin America. The WTM London Responsible Tourism Programme, for the first time, extended over all four days of WTM and attracted over 2000 participants. The annual reception held each year by the International Centre for Responsible Tourism and responsibletravel.com was held at Excel for the first time, running straight on from the established WTM WRTD Networking event. We were able to announce there that regional World Responsible Tourism Awards events are being planned at WTM Africa in 2015 and WTM Latin America in 2016. The Awards will be run as part of the established World Responsible Tourism Awards, and will use the same tried and tested processes. 1 2
Box 1 The Panel of Judges 2014
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Dr Harold Goodwin, Chair of Judges, Founder Director of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism
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Justin Francis, Founder and director of the Responsible Tourism Awards, Managing Director of responsibletravel.com
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Dr Rebecca Hawkins, Director of the Responsible Hospitality Partnership
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Debbie Hindle, Managing Director Four bgb
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Fiona Jeffery, Chairman of World Travel Market 2007-‐‑2013, Founder Just a Drop
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Simon Press, Senior Exhibition Director, World Travel Market (WTM)
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Lisa Scott, Travel Editor of the Metro Newspaper
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John de Vial, Director of the ICRT and ABTA
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Dr Matt Walpole Head of Ecosystem Assessment at the World Conservation Monitoring Centre for the United Nations Environment Programme
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Mark Watson CEO Tourism Concern
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This process was described in the Goodwin H (2014) Progress in Responsible Tourism Vol 3(1) published by
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More detail available online: www.responsibletravel.com/awards/about/judges.htm