This Responsible Tourism in Cape Town: How-to Guide shares information on how the tourism industry can participate in helping to make Cape Town and its tourism facilities, services and products more responsible. It is also important to ensure that our tourism sector keeps pace with international trends in responsible business practice and gains market advantage in doing so.
It is designed to be a straightforward first guide to implementing responsible tourism, with further helpful information on responsible tourism principles and terms.
Download the full guide here (27Mb).
Download the first part here (6Mb). This part includes the following sections:
- Who should use this guide?
- How to use this guide
- Context & background
- What is responsible tourism?
- Cape Town’s seven responsible tourism priority areas
- Economic principles
- Environmental principles
- Social principles
- Benefits of responsible tourism
- Operational advantage
- Market demand
Download the second part here (15Mb). The second part includes the following sections:
- Responsible tourism in action
- Buying responsibly
- Supporting enterprise development
- Conserving water
- Using energy efficiently
- Reducing & managing waste
- Developing skills
- Building communities
- Universal access
Download the third part here (5Mb). The third part includes the following sections:
- Walking your own journey
- Communicating your responsible tourism journey
- What to tell
- How to communicate
Most impressive!! Very wise people wrote this
How To Guide!!!
Thanks so much!
Need membership & consultancy services.
Responsible Cape Town is not membership-based and neither does it offer consultancy services. We only provide information. Please contact our friends at Better Tourism Africa for consultancy services. https://bettertourismafrica.org/
I have a small business making Costume Jewellery from home.
I would like to sell my items but do not know how to go about it. Kindly assist.
The Craft and Design Institute offers a business support programme that can help you launch a business. Their page on current opportunities lists places where you can sell your products. http://www.thecdi.org.za/