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Opinion / Profiles

Discover industry professionals views on the key issues affecting the travel sector.
 
5 Best Beer Bars in Lille 

5 Best Beer Bars in Lille 

L’Échappée Bière, the only beer tourism agency in France, provides its guide to the five best beers bars in Lille. In Lille the first trace of beer dates back to…

Happy Do Year 2022

Happy Do Year 2022

Breaking with tradition Mark Bibby Jackson wishes all our Travel Begins at 40 readers a Happy Do Year 2022; one for action rather than words. 2022 is the Year of…

Radisson Hotel Group: Responsible Business

Radisson Hotel Group: Responsible Business

Inge Huijbrechts, Global Senior Vice President Sustainability, Security and Corporate Communications for Radisson Hotel Group discusses how the hotel chain is developing the Responsible Business, and Safety and Security programmes…

Food Tourism Can Boost Recovery

Food Tourism Can Boost Recovery

Erik Wolf, executive director of The World Food Travel Association, explains how food tourism can help to boost sectoral recovery post-pandemic. World Food Travel Association research shows that food-loving visitors…

Costa Rica Visa Run to Cancun

Costa Rica Visa Run to Cancun

Jonathan Hiltz gives advice on where to go on a Costa Rica visa run, suggesting you could do far worse than choosing Cancun, Mexico. Costa Rica is a country with…

Community Homestay Network Nepal

Community Homestay Network Nepal

Mark Bibby Jackson chats with Shiva Dhakal, Chair of the Community Homestay Network in Nepal about community-based tourism. What does sustainable tourism mean? Sustainable tourism to me is tourism that…

Interested in Opinion / Profiles?

There is more to travel than sharing our own experiences and snapshots – wonderful though they may be. At Travel Begins at 40, we have invited various tourism experts, as well as our own writers to give her and his opinion on what the key issues are facing the tourism industry in the first quarter of the twenty first century. Whether this is the downward spiral of mass tourism on the host community, the benefits that the industry can play on wildlife conservation in Africa, or community based tourism initiatives in Myanmar, at Travel Begins at 40, we have created the space for these important issues to be debated. Within this section we also have in depth interviews – profiles – with some of the people we believe or contributing significantly to responsible and local tourism initiatives. We all bear a responsibility for ensuring that our tourism is beneficial for the long term sustainability for the places that we visit. This is where we would like to hear your views too.