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We are the only organisation in Europe actively campaigning on tourism and human rights issues.
Please help us to continue exposing and challenging tourism's exploitative practices.
The issues explained
Displacement, exploitation, environmental damage- Find out about all the key issues in our quick interactive guide.
Travel Dilemmas
Tourists are presented with with a raft of tricky ethical dilemmas. Here we give a selection and invite you to have your say...
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See what life is like for Kenyan hotel workers and those affected by the tsunami in our online exhibitions.
Visit our new photography exhibition
Destination Tsunami: Stories and Struggles from India’s southern coast
23 February – 31 March 2010, The Guardian Gallery, London N1
It is over five years since the 2004 tsunami devastated the southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. This exhibition conveys the hardships endured by coastal communities as they attempt to withstand the multiple pressures of rapid tourism development promoted by powerful developers and government policies.
Tourism Concern has Free exhibition guidance notes for teachers and lecturers to download.
More about our Tsunami of Tourism Campaign
A grassroots perspective on tourism
Invitation to a meeting: 3rd March 2010
Please join us at a special event to meet Sajeer Abdul Rehman of Kabani, our partner organisation in India. Kabani has been working with coastal communities to raise awareness of the threats posed by tourism including displacement from land and loss of livelihoods.
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It’s time to put tourism to rights!
Tourism Concern has launched a new hard-hitting report, Putting Tourism to Rights, demanding action to end human rights violations in tourism.
We are calling on the UK Government and tourism industry to ensure that the rights of local people in tourism destinations are respected in line with international law. Human rights must be protected if tourism is to contribute to sustainable development and poverty reduction.
Global tourism in figures
- Global Tourism worth US$ 733 billion (2006)
- Tourism employs 8% of the global workforce
- 1.6 billion international tourists by 2020
Unregulated tourism development is continuing to devastate environments, degrade cultures and destroy traditional livelihoods.
Find out what we do to make sure the benefits of tourism are felt by all...
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