Responsible Cape Town

This summer the City of Cape Town: Solid Waste Management Department is hosting a ‘Waste to Art’ market at the Company’s Garden to show how one person’s waste can become another’s art. The market will run from 09:00 – 18:00 daily, from 1 to 16 December 2012, and all residents and visitors are welcome to [...]

Tourism & Sustainable Energy: Powering Sustainable Development is this year’s theme for World Tourism Day (WTD).   The theme aims to highlight tourism’s role in a better energy future; a future in which the world’s entire population has access to modern, efficient and affordable energy services. Celebrate the theme by posting your tips for saving energy [...]

The City of Cape Town will be switching off the lights on Table Mountain and in its own buildings for one hour in support of the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Earth Hour 2012, which takes place on Saturday 31 March from 20:30 to 21:30 (local time). “The City will join hundreds of millions of people, [...]

UPDATE: 9 February 2012 – Event fully booked. No additional space available. Presentations will be posted to Slideshare as soon as possible, and tweets live from the event will use the #rtweek2012 hashtag. Stay tuned to ResponsibleCapeTown.co.za/blog or follow @respCPT for updates. Cape Town’s tourism industry has been through challenging times recently and the future holds a [...]

Responsible Tourism Week is a free, seven-day unconference exploring down-to-earth applications of noble concepts including responsible tourism, conscious travel, the local travel movement and ecotourism with effective and inexpensive social media and local events. This unconventional, online ‘unconference’ begins on Monday, 13 February and continues through Sunday, 19 February. Anyone can participate by joining the conversation, either online or with local friends, neighbours and colleagues, or [...]

Southern Africa’s responsible tourism awards, the Imvelo Awards, were announced on 9 November 2011, World Responsible Tourism Day. Cape Town-based companies were well represented, comprising 12 of the 38 finalists and winning 6 of 14 awards (with 3 Cape Town finalists also part of a 7th award given to their hotel group and one finalist [...]

The 2011 Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Award winners were announced on 9 November, World Responsible Tourism Day. African nations were well represented among the winners and those highly commended, including Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya and Morocco. The full list of winners is the following: Joint overall winners: Robin Pope Safaris & Sockmob Events/Unseen Tours Best in [...]

Anne van der Tuuk of Abang Africa Travel, was interviewed about responsible tourism and Cape Town at World Travel Market 2011 on World Responsible Tourism Day, 9 November.

Cape Town’s Energy Efficiency Forum is putting on an energy efficiency marketplace on Thursday 10 November 2011 to help owners and managers of commercial and public buildings – including hotels and guesthouses, meeting venues, restaurants and others in the tourism and hospitality sector – learn about and see for themselves various products, technologies and services [...]

The tourism industry in Cape Town is strongly supportive of responsible tourism (RT) in principle, but overall not enough has been done to measure RT implementation in practice. Without reliable data, claims of ‘responsible’ action are weak and progress toward becoming a truly responsible destination remains difficult to measure. However, there are encouraging signs that [...]