"..making better places for people to live in, better places for people to visit."

NEW!! Current Student Information & Weblinks

It shares the purposes of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism and is committed to the principles of the Cape Town Declaration.

New Course:
Heidi Keyser and Harold Goodwin have secured funding from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to run a Continuing Professional Development course on Responsible Tourism Management for local authority staff and consultants. To register for further details please email us at sa@icrtourism.org

The Gauteng Tourism Responsible Tourism Manual, which results for a consultancy project completed by Heidi Keyser and Harold Goodwin provides a "whole of government" approach to "making better places for people to live in, better places for people to visit." [LINK]

South Africa adopted Responsible Tourism as its national policy in 1996.

• White Paper on Development & Promotion of Tourism in South Africa [LINK]

In 2001-2002 the International Centre for Responsible Tourism assisted the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism in drawing up national Guidelines for Responsible Tourism through a multi-stakeholder process.

South Africa's Department for Environmental Affairs Responsible Tourism guidelines provide a menu of opportunities for change

• South Africa's Responsible Tourism Guidelines [LINK]
• Explanatory Note [LINK]
• Responsible Tourism Handbook 2003 [LINK]

The International Centre for Responsible Tourism in South Africa can be contacted by emailing

sa@icrtourism.org