While tourism has reduced dramatically and workers are suffering all around the world, the development of new tourism infrastructure has not paused. On the contrary, in the name of COVID recovery, governments and investors are speeding up for the ‘re-start’, continuing to promote an extractive and abusive tourism model often based on the exploitation of local people and our planet.
- Land Rights in Tourism – driving forces behind evictions and displacements pre-Covid and during the Covid Pandemic. Is there a new wave of disaster capitalism coming up?
- Current cases of displacements through tourism development raised by the UN Special Rapporteurs i.e. Indonesia, Bangladesh
- Corporate Accountability – Do the new business and human rights legislations in Europe and Asia help to tackle this or what would be needed to address it?
- Developments in the European Parliament towards binding due diligence legislation.
- Discussion and strategy development: Strengthening civil society action against corporate and investor’s human rights’ abuses and illegal activities in tourism
Organisers:
The seminar is connected with a series of webinars by the Transforming Tourism Initiative, an open global network of NGOs, tourism practitioners and academia that demands a transformation of tourism in line with the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development.
Confirmed co-organizers are:
- Tourism Watch @ Bread for the World (Germany)
- Kabani – the other direction (India)
- EQUATIONS (India)
- Fresh Eyes (UK)
