World Travel Market

Just back from a really good couple of days at WTM in London. Met old friends, made new contacts and enjoyed some excellent presentations. I particularly enjoyed Andres Calderon's paper on cultural heritage and tourism in Peru and also David Souden's presentation on the work of Historic Royal Palaces here in the UK.

At the end of the session I was chairing it became clearer than ever that responsible tourism at heritage sites needs a true and transparent partnership between heritage and tourism professionals as well as with host communities, and that every project needs a champion.

Will post links to all the papers when they are online.