{"id":6151,"date":"2011-11-14T13:07:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T12:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6151"},"modified":"2011-11-14T13:07:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T12:07:26","slug":"wtm-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/11\/14\/wtm-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"WTM: Travel challenged on human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelweekly.co.uk\/Articles\/2011\/11\/14\/38779\/wtm+travel+challenged+on+human+rights.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6152\" title=\"WTM: Travel challenged on human rights\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/111114_kuoni.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>The tourism industry needs to make human rights a core part of its  operations and future development if it is to be taken seriously on  claims to sustainability. Campaign group <a href=\"http:\/\/tourismconcern.org.uk\/\">Tourism\u00c2\u00a0Concern <\/a>issued  a challenge to the sector at World Travel Market last week with the  launch of a briefing paper on Business and Human Rights: the challenges  and opportunities for tourism. Tourism Concern director Tricia Barnett said: \u201cNo one wants to go on  holiday thinking they are part of a process that could be abusing human  rights. But of course, they would never know. Human rights abuses are  hidden. \u201cThere is an onus on travel businesses to ensure they are not  complicit in rights violations. As one of the world\u2019s largest service  industries and proclaimed driver of sustainable development, the tourism  industry must engage with human rights. Our report seeks to begin a  dialogue on how to move forward.\u201d Barnett highlighted a host of violations, involving displacement of  people and denial of traditional livelihoods such as fishing. She said:  \u201cWe have uncovered stories of people being harassed, bludgeoned,  terrorised out of their homes [to makle way for tourism developments]. (&#8230;) Swiss-based travel group Kuoni is developing a policy on human rights  that should be incorporated into its operations from early next year.  Kuoni corporate responsibility project manager Sabine Loetscher-Ehrler  said pressure to act came from operating in more than 50 destinations. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelweekly.co.uk\/Articles\/2011\/11\/14\/38779\/wtm+travel+challenged+on+human+rights.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;.<\/a> Image: http:\/\/tourismconcern.org.uk\/<\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global | Company: Kuoni | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelweekly.co.uk\/Articles\/2011\/11\/14\/38779\/wtm+travel+challenged+on+human+rights.html\" target=\"_blank\">travelweekly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tourism industry needs to make human rights a core part of its operations and future development if it is to be taken seriously on claims to sustainability. Campaign group Tourism\u00c2\u00a0Concern issued a challenge to the sector at World Travel Market last week with the launch of a briefing paper on Business and Human Rights:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[691],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-kuoni","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}