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Elsewhere on the Web
[|Afrika T: Cape Town Responsible Tourism Visitor Code] [|Responsible Cape Town] http://www.capetown.travel/industry_blog/entry/cape-town-tourism-loves-responsible-tourism-week-at-valentines-day-informat [|Free Week of Entry to SANParks in September]

Essay
The City of Cape Town has supported the principles of responsible tourism since the Cape Town Declaration in 2002. In 2004 it included these principles in Cape Town’s Tourism Development Framework.

Cape Town’s responsible tourism efforts have intensified in recent years. In 2009 the City adopted the //[|Responsible Tourism Policy and Action Plan]// which commits the city to action on seven priority issues - water, energy, waste, skills development, preferential procurement, enterprise development and social development.

In 2009, Cape Town’s key tourism partners committed to a //Responsible Tourism Charter// as the foundation of future tourism development. These partners represent a broad range of tourism stakeholders:
 * [|The City of Cape Town]
 * [|Cape Town Tourism]
 * [|Fedhasa Cape] - Federated Hospitality Association of Southern Africa, Cape Region
 * [|SATSA] - Southern Africa Tourism Services Association
 * [|SAACI] - Southern African Association for the Conference Industry

In 2010, a dedicated website for responsible tourism was launched as a resource for tourism businesses. The website has blog and a resource section with toolkits, photos and case studies: [|responsiblecapetown.co.za]

In 2010 and 2011, the City of Cape Town funded Responsible Tourism Training for businesses throughout the city.

In **2011**, the Charter Partners convened a [|pilot project focusing on responsible tourism reporting]. The intention of the RT Pilot is to develop a tool for tourism organisations and businesses in Cape Town to measure and demonstrate their progress toward targets in addressing 7 local priority issues, and to report these in a manner that shows how the city collectively is making progress toward becoming a responsible destination.

Cape Town's pool of responsible tourism businesses is ever-increasing. Twenty-one tourism businesses that are part of the pilot project, certifed tourism businesses and those with 'green credentials' are spread throughout the city (See map below for details of businesses).

Mount Nelson Hotel
http://www.mountnelson.co.za/web/ocap/mount_nelson_hotel.jsp http://www.mountnelson.co.za/web/ocap/social_responsibility.jsp http://tangerineandcinnamon.com/2014/01/06/orientalism

Agriculture and Urban Gardens
http://futurecapetown.com/2014/11/watch-how-to-create-a-space-for-urban-agriculture/#.VGDhlvTF-F5

Events
November 18-20, 2011, Inspiring Change Gathering, [|CTICC] [|Comments welcome on Ron's blog] [|Storify] Hashtag: [|#IChangeCT]

Cape Town again inspires this year as host of the [|Inspiring Change Gathering] which explores creative ways to take on climate change. With COP17/CMP7 hosted in Durban during November and December 2011, climate change issues are in the spotlight.

This week's gathering in Cape Town promises to foster conversations beyond policy in order to point toward new possibilities, moving the discussion away from what must be given up toward what can be created. The event conducted at [|Cape Town International Convention Centre] and available via livestreaming web presents a rare opportunity to explore creative solutions in an optimistic and real-world way with colleagues and leaders who can make practical contributions. Did I mention there will be a [|carrotmob]?! Carrotmobs in South Africa? It must be the Year of the Rabbit.

[|Inspiring Change] is hosted by the Cape Town Climate Change Coalition in association with the City of Cape Town, African Centre for Cities at UCT, Cape Town Partnership, Cape Town International Convention Centre, ICLEI, Provincial Government of the Western Cape and is generously supported by Siemens. [|Check out how to participate]

Cities are places of flux and for some innovation and adaptation come easily. In looking for solutions, officials in Cape Town and the Western Cape are being stretched by increasing climate change impacts and the need for novel ways of managing urban spaces and the growing number of people that occupy them. Cape Town is also competing for its portion of the future economy. Climate change is not about to go away and the need to both slash greenhouse gas emissions and cope with the consequences of the changes that are already unavoidable, will reconfigure competitive advantage and create a new set of winners and losers.
 * Why cities and climate change?**

If Cape Town gets this right there will be new business, new investments, better services, more tourists and the type of living environment that attracts and retains skilled people. There will also be new ways out of poverty for people trapped by an industrial economy that may have offered a blueprint for development sixty years ago, but now finds itself operating a long way down the value chain and generating exactly the type of environmental degradation that perpetuates poverty.

Successful cities will place a new urgency on developing and adopting innovations that foster growth while reducing material throughput of the economy. But the most progressive cities acknowledge that innovation on its own is unlikely to deliver the scale or pace of change required. The structure, layout and functioning of cities has to change simultaneously, and some cities are doing better than others in managing this process.

Filing http://www.pmg.org.za/report/20110308-cape-town-tourism-sustainable-tourism-growth-development-support-smme

Flickr
[|The Backpack Cape Town]

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Headlines
[|Cape Town leads the way as a green city] [|Can responsible tourism solve social problems? - Africa Geographic] - [|@africageo] [|Help make Cape Town the most loveable sustainable city] - [|@CityofCT]

Events for Responsible Travel Week 2015
**February 10, 2-3pm** Responsible Travel Flash Mob, St Georges Mall **February 11, [|3-5pm]** [|Responsible Travel Week Seminar], Two Oceans Aquarium, V&A Waterfront **February 13, 1-2pm** Responsible Travel Week Flash Mob, V&A Waterfront

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Events
[|#RTDCapeTown]
 * April 14-15** Responsible Tourism in Destinations

Responsible Travel Week 2014
[|@respCPT]


 * ** Event ** || ** Date ** || ** Target Market ** || ** Partners ** ||
 * RT Environmental awareness and site visit, [|Edith Stephens Wetland Park]) || 10 Feb

930am-1pm || Community groups || Philippi, Gugulethu, Langa and Athlone, NPO’s & other City departments. || 940-1040am || Tertiary Students || Tourism industry & academic institutions || 1215-215pm || Tertiary Students || Tourism industry & academic institutions || 3-5pm || Global || Big6 || 9-11am || Tertiary Students || Tourism industry & academic institutions ||
 * RT Workshop, the [|University of the Western Cape] || 11 Feb
 * RT Workshop, the [|University of the Western Cape] || 11 Feb
 * RT Workshop, False Bay College || 12 Feb
 * RT Seminar || 13 Feb
 * RT Workshop, the [|Cape Peninsula University of Technology] || 14 Feb

November 12-13, the [|City of Cape Town] convened a Dialogue on Responsible Tourism in Cities. Delegates from all over South Africa will be attending. The dialogue starts on 12 Nov with site visits to Langa, Blaauwberg Nature Reserve, Waste to Foood project and Harvest of Hope. After a Dinner Dialogue led by Gita Goven, Day 2 is structured series of roundtable discussions with a panal discussion. Audio: http://www.awdio.com/pavilion-conference/13641803e-city-of-cape-town_52052.html
 * 2013**

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Green Hotels
http://capeinfo.com/hotels/hotel-verde-africa-s-greenest-hotel

Misc
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