Who Profits From Tourism? WTM WRTD Debate

Date/Time:

09 Nov 2011
15:30-17:00

Location:

North Gallery Room 4 + 5

Chairperson:

Professor Harold Goodwin
Professor of Responsible Tourism Management
International Centre for Responsible Tourism, Leeds Metropolitan University

Speaker(s)

	Adama Bah, Project Manager - The Gambia, The Travel Foundation
	Julia Bishop, Director , Zanzibar Association of Tourism Investors
	Ruth Holroyd, Group Head of Sustainability , The Thomas Cook Group PLC
	Noel Josephides, Managing Director, Sunvil Holidays
	Luke Pollard, Head of Public Affairs, ABTA – The Travel Association
	Richard Sharpley , Professor of Tourism & Development, University of Central Lancashire

Seminar Details

Tourism businesses argue that they deserve support from government seeking tax breaks and assistance with marketing, rarely does the industry address the question, who benefits from tourism? Business argues that the sector is big, “the world’s largest industry” and that they need help from government, and critics ask if they are so successful why they need government subsidies.

This panel will debate the question “who profits from tourism?” Can tourism demonstrate that it contributes to making better places for people to live in? The motion “This house believes that the main beneficiaries of tourism are the industry and the consumers and that there is too little benefit for communities and their environment’ Two main protagonists each supported by two speakers. Each team has fifteen minutes of questions from the floor.

For:
Richard Sharpley, Professor of Tourism & Development, University of Central Lancashire
with
Adama Bah, Programme Manager, The Travel Foundation

Julia Bishop, Director , Zanzibar Association of Tourism Investors

Against:
Luke Pollard, Head of Public Affairs, ABTA – The Travel Association
with
Noel Josephides, Managing Director, Sunvil Holidays
Ruth Holroyd, Group Head of Sustainability, Thomas Cook

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