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BarCamp 24-25 september

June 17, 2015 By Jeppe Leave a Comment

Barcamp-HallbarhetskonferensVälkommen till den tredje upplagan av BarCamp i Sigtuna – om hållbarhet inom turism, möten och events

“Vi verkar i en växande bransch. Och med tillväxt följer ett ansvar för oss alla att tänka långsiktigt och hållbart. Hållbarhetsfrågorna måste in i de visioner, strategier och affärsplaner vi använder för att utveckla våra destinationer. Först då kan turistnäringen göra skillnad. Sedan 2013 har vi samlats på en BarCamp i Sigtuna. Här tar vi oss tid att sätta oss ner för att dela kunskap, byta erfarenheter och diskutera dessa angelägna framtidsfrågor. Inspirerande av tidigare diskussioner och samtal bjuder vi nu in till ett tredje möte.”

Fair Travel och Jeppe Klockareson är med och organiserar årets upplaga av detta event och hoppas att du kommer vara med!

Dela med dig
“Enligt konceptet ”unconference” samlar vi personer med ett stort intresse för turism och hållbarhetsfrågor. Era kunskaper och erfarenheter står som grund för diskussionerna. Vid en BarCamp är deltagarna huvudaktörer. Varken talare, föreläsare eller seminarium är förutbestämda. Istället är det deltagarnas engagemang som formar innehållet. Så ta chansen – var med och lyft fram de hållbarhetsfrågor du brinner för, nya tankar och idéer eller de frågor du funderar över.”

När: Torsdag 24/9 – fredag 25/9
Var: Hotell Kristina i Sigtuna stad
Hur: Du anmäler dig genom att gå till anmälningssidan

Läs inbjudan i sin helhet här.

Filed Under: Announcements, Events, News Tagged With: conference, Fair Travel, Jeppe Klockareson, responsible tourism, sustainable tourism

Hållbarhetskonferens 11 september

June 17, 2015 By Jeppe Leave a Comment

Barcamp-HallbarhetskonferensHållbarhetskonferens 11/9 – Succékonferensen om hållbarhet inom besöksnäringen går i repris!

“Kom och bli inspirerad! Som besökare får du de senaste trenderna, konkreta tips på hur du förbättrar hållbarhetsarbetet och hur du skapar meningsfulla och hållbara möten. Du får en insikt i hur det går att använda teknik på ett smart och miljövänligt sätt under möten. Ta även tillfället i akt att nätverka med likasinnade! Välkommen!”

Fair Travel och Jeppe Klockareson är inbjudna som en av huvudtalarna under denna konferens som fokuserar på hållbarhetsfrågor inom turism, resor och hospitality.

När: Fredag 11/9 kl. 9-13
Var: Nalen, Regeringsgatan 74, Stockholm
Pris: 1495 kr, inkl. frukost & lunch
Program & anmälan:
www.greentime.se/konferens

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Fair Travel to speak at 3rd European Ecotourism Conference

March 26, 2015 By Jeppe Leave a Comment

European Ecotourism Conference 2015Fair Travel and Jeppe Klockareson has been invited as one of eight speakers on the 3rd European Ecotourism Conference taking place on the 26th-29th April 2015 at the Windsor Palace Hotel & Conference Center in Jachranka, Poland. The topic will be “Key factors for profitability of ecotourism”.

“Since 2010 and the I European Ecotourism Conference in Estonia, the European ecotourist movement has strenghtened and managed to find more opportunities to meet and work together. This year we are happy to host you all in Poland. The dynamic development of ecotourism faces more and more global challenges. The III European Conference is a platform to discuss, share experiences and network. This year we also celebrate 25 years of TIES – The International Ecotourism Society. Lets get together on ecotourism issues in Europe, at the same time with The Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference happening in Quito in Ecuador. All participants are welcome.”

Other speakers at the conference includes Michael Meyer of Ecological Tourism in Europe, Anna Pollock of Conscious Travel UK, Mary Mulvey of Ecotourism Ireland, Chris Milnes of Hellenic Ecotourism Society and Aivar Ruukel of Estonian Ecotourism Association.

The conference program is free of charge and includes accommodation and meals. Read more about the conference at the official webpage. Hope to see you in Poland at the 3rd European Ecotourism Conference!

Filed Under: Announcements, News Tagged With: conference, ecotourism, Fair Travel, Jeppe Klockareson, responsible tourism

Tourism, Travel and Sustainable Development

May 3, 2012 By Jeppe Leave a Comment

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We welcome you to be part of a full day seminar on tourism, travel and sustainable development in Stockholm on the 25th October 2012. The event will be held at the magnificent and inspiring Polstjärnan centrally located in Stockholm. We will guarantee an exciting and inspiring program on sustainable development in the national and international tourism industry, which we’ll discuss and debate on.


We want to invite stakeholders to unite, to network and to share ideas and thoughts for a responsible and sustainable future in tourism. We want to expand the backing and support by getting more stakeholders to join us. We want you to join us!

The stakeholders give their financial backing and support and in return receive well-deserved attention and goodwill. Sustainable Tourism is an investment in our future. It involves us all and we need more support and participation to evolve the future of tourism. Allow yourself to be inspired for a sustainable development.

This seminar is just a first step on our journey. The seminar provides us with the opportunity to start a network – a network of continuous workshops and gatherings to exchange ideas, to inspire, to educate and to influence.

The mission and vision:
”Our mission is to raise the level of knowledge and awareness about responsible tourism, while stimulating and inspire towards a sustainable development of the tourism and travel industry, through good examples, inspiration, sharing experience, discussions and networking.”

”Our vision is to create a network that will work as a meeting place for the international and domestic tourism in Sweden. The network will function as a driving force for change and development towards a long term sustainable future.”

Proposed areas for discussion:

Why do we travel?
– A discussion about travel. Globalization and travel. What sort of influence does the consumer have? What/who drives a change towards sustainable tourism? Inspire to drive change!

International travel
– The significance of international travel from different perspectives. What sort of travel do we choose? Trends and global reconnaissance.

Sweden, a “hot” and well-visited tourist destination in 2020
– The end of “lagom”. Domestic and inbound tourism patterns and how it will change with the national strategy “Strategi2020”. How do we double tourism by 2020 in a sustainable way?

We reserve the right for last minute changes

Supporters of the event:

    • Frans Schartaus Handelsinstitut
    • Föreningen Svenskt Flyg
    • Air France KLM
    • Malmö Aviation
    • Apollo
    • Transportgruppen
    • Swedavia
    • Scanworld
    • Fair Travel
    • The Blue Yonder

Read about the 2011 program and presentation in Swedish on these links:
Travel News
Program

Would you be interested in sponsoring this years event, please contact us here.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: responsible tourism, seminar, Sustainability, sustainable tourism

Hunting for sustainability

September 19, 2011 By Jeppe Leave a Comment

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Does 30 days in the wilderness, living in the bush change you as a person? Does it bring on a bigger understanding of things? Will the experience make you comprehend the complexity of nature, environment and life better? I walked into the bush and after spending 30 days there, I walked out with a different insight pertaining to hunting, nature and the balance of the human race on the environment.

 

Against hunting

Seeing Nature that close, as the complex, magnificent and epical living form it is, you can’t deny the fact that She controls us all and is what flow through us. We must learn to listen to it, to learn from it and to follow the way Pachamama show us.

I’ve been a meat eater my whole life and not once have I ever considered to become a vegetarian. My whole adult life I’ve had a strong opinion about hunting and killing animals.

It has emotionally moved me and angered me to see killing and slaughter of defenseless animals, and it still does, at least to a degree. I’ve realized, at least on this matter, that my emotions control how I feel about things and I look away from any fact available, not willing to look at things with a different view.

 

Hunting tourism = Responsible tourism?

I wouldn’t want to label hunting tourism as responsible tourism, due to the fact that killing and responsible don’t mix well together, but the question I ask myself right now is whether or not hunting tourism can be labeled as sustainable tourism?

People I’ve met all working in close symbiosis with Nature and with the utmost respect and love for it, have made me realize that there are different angles to approach this matter. Hunting and killing animals for food is part of life and nature to keep the balance.

 

Bad examples

Let me clarify and point out that there are many types of hunting and that needs to be taken into consideration, when taking a stand. There are many bad examples and I don’t support any of the horrible examples that relate to poaching nor hunting of endangered animals. But by being able to separate the better from the bad, we can find sustainable and ethical hunting methods that can be used as an effective tool for conservation.

Conservation is a necessity for any kind of sustainability and a keyword that can be used is balance. In order to be able to sustain, everything needs to be in balance.

 

Why do we need a balance?

If we remove the croc from the trophic pyramid, due to an attack on a human, it will affect the rest of the pyramid, and all of a sudden we’ve got a shortage of natural enemies for the mozzies. Mozzie-bites can in areas cause malaria, and for the sake of one attack on humans, we’re risking the life of many through a potential outbreak of malaria.

Keeping the balance is crucial and we as humans are part of it and we are in many ways top predators and must participate in order to achieve balance. This can be obtained by either culling or cropping. Culling means large-scale removal of numbers of a population to achieve balance, while cropping means a constant removal over an extended period of time. Either method chosen, we need to obtain balance to conserve.

Should this be done my mass-killing and slaughter when the problem has become unbearable or should it be done by using hunting tourism, which generate income, provide food while also providing a tool to control and conserve?

 

Auction a lion?

A privately owned big-5 reserve in Africa advertise an auction, where the winner can come to hunt and kill a lion, the leader of the pride. Is this ethical? Is it responsible? Is it sustainable? Is this a sustainable and responsibly run reserve? What sort of tourism is this? If you rely on your emotions, I’m sure that a majority should call this bad and say no.

But if you care to look deeper into it and gather more information, to find out that the lion in the auction is the 12 year old male that has long surpassed his prime and is closing in on his final day. He’s lived and roamed free his entire life and is now being challenged by younger males to take over.

This auction can secure the funding of the entire reserve for a long time ahead, which means that poachers can be kept out, the animals be monitored and controlled and the survival of the reserve will be secured for a few years ahead.

With these facts in mind and by looking away from our emotions we should ask ourselves if this can be considered sustainable and even responsible.

 

Killing in the name of a sustainable future…

Is it right? Is it wrong? An opinion is like an ass, everyone has one and we need a difference of opinion now and then, but sometimes we need to approach things from a different angle to see the full picture. Having said that, I still look upon hunting with skepticism and a lot of emotions involved, but I’ve learned what to look for, to be able to separate the better from the bad, and by doing so I’ve gained a different insight not based on assumptions.

 

Who to believe in?

Question is what and who to believe in? Who’s controlling it? Who’s controlling the controllers?

You are my friend! Trust your own judgment based on gathered facts and information and not just on emotions. Base your opinions and choice accordingly.

We need to challenge and question to move forward towards a sustainable development in tourism. By separating the bad from the good, we can secure the future of tourism, no matter what area covered.

 

Asase ye duru!

Jeppe

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: hunting tourism, responsible tourism, sustainable tourism

Ethical Travel?

April 24, 2011 By Jeppe Leave a Comment

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2011 started in a revolutionary fashion with the people of northern Africa turning on dictatorships and oppression. The 28th January sparked a mass medial revolution aimed at outgoing tourism from Sweden, as the Ministry for Foreign Affairs called of all travel to Egypt. This sent media on a rampage to crucify the tourism industry for sending travelers to dictator countries. All of a sudden everyone became aware of this and the question whether or not it’s ethically correct to travel to countries that are controlled by dictators that oppress its own people, could be heard on the news and in heated debates.

 

Reliability of tourism

I was myself confronted by this question on two occasions by different journalists. I believe that the question is highly relevant but hardly justified. My view was, and still is, to turn the question around. We need to ask ourselves if it is ethically correct to make countries, destinations, families and people fully reliable on the income of tourism and then all of a sudden when the uprising is on, we leave them to their own destiny and poverty.

I wrote an opinion piece on the events in Egypt and the effects on the tourism and the local people, where I question the non-proactive management of mass-tourism and the lack of objective coverage of tourism from media. The aim was to get a debate going on TV and other media, but it never took off. Instead I had to withstand some heavy “virtual” attacks. Read it here in Swedish.

 

Where did all the noice go?

I also did an interview for NTD Television on the same topic. This was over two months ago, almost three actually, and the question I ask myself today is what happened? What became of the flared up heated debate? Did it just die out like that? Did media lose interest in it? Has it actually meant anything at all and did it get any positive outcome and change?

The last question I received in the interview with NTD Television was if I believed that the recent events would have any effect on people and the industry? My somewhat pessimistic answer was no. Though I wish I was wrong, the answer proved to be right.

 

What happened to the experts?

Yes, I’ve seen a few articles here and there, some talk on the radio and someone mentioning things around it on TV, but that’s all. Media really had the opportunity to raise awareness and help to push through a change and inform the general audience about the situation, but instead of trying to get a dialogue started with the tourism and travel industry, the tactic chosen, was to turn against it and put the industry in one corner and “experts” such as journalists, professors and organizations in the other and let them battle it out. I had one wish, which I put forward to journalists, to get a debate going between people within the industry, that has the experience of it and knows how it work.

Let the companies that are successful with responsible tourism debate and discuss with the big charter dogs instead. I’m 100% sure that a debate of that kind would be much more fruitful with a bigger potential for a positive change and cooperation. It is easy to tell someone that they do wrong, but that’s not how problems are solved. Problems are solved by sharing intellect, ideas and experience. This is what the debate could’ve lead to instead of just crucifying the whole industry. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, tourism isn’t in its core bad. It has a wealth of positive aspects that we need to harness while we need to work to minimize the negative ones.

 

The debate just went quiet and tourism is back in Egypt like before. Only time will tell if there was anything else won from the uprise apart from the removal of Hosni Mubarak?

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Egypt, ethics, responsible tourism

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