This month ECOCLUB proudly presents an inspiring and timely interview with Ms. Pam Wight, acclaimed Ecotourism Consultant and Rapporteur to the World Ecotourism Summit in Québec, who co-drafted the Québec Declaration on Ecotourism. We discuss among other things what can prevent the Declaration from remaining a declaration.

In this issue, we are also launching "The Expert", a column to showcase the Expert talent of ECOCLUB Expert Members. The Expert is inaugurated with an extensive presentation of Aboriginal tourism by Mr. Ian Menzies, a respected Australian tourism practitioner and academic.

You will thus be spared the doom and gloom of last month's infamous editorial, since in August some may be "bored by rhetoric and public speaking"... Smile sardonically and go on holidays, sustainable ones. And, who knows, Cavafy's barbarians may be late again.

- Antonis B. Petropoulos, ECOCLUB Editor

 

Cum Grano Salis*: 

"expect a brighter future"

"WTO and UNCTAD to join efforts in poverty alleviation Madrid, 1 July 2002 - The world's poorest countries can expect a brighter future. Two influential international entities, World Tourism Organization (WTO) and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), have agreed to join efforts in a fight to reduce poverty generally and in Africa specifically." WTO Press Release. 

*Cum Grano Salis: pseudo-latin for "with a grain of salt".

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