The articles and links on the ‘Views on Tourism’ blog have been carefully selected with the objective to supply the Bangladeshi Tourism players with knowledge and inspiration on sustainable development. This being said the majority of information is also useful for an international audience facing similar tourism challenges or who wish to try and think outside the box.
Furthermore, the information available on this blog follows two fundamental positions on tourism developing approaches:
• Knowledge and cooperation are the best resources when it comes to increasing professionalism, sustainability and competitiveness in all levels of the tourism sector.
• Developing and maintaining a desirable tourism product includes both focus on customer demands and a strategically sustainable destination development approach, which takes the economy, environment and social development of a region into consideration.
What is The Views On Tourism Project?
The overall vision of The Views On Tourism Project is to encourage an active sustainable tourism movement in Bangladesh, South Asian and world-wide.
This Views On Tourism blog provides knowledge, best practice and inspiration on how to achieve a long-term positive and sustainable tourism development. Furthermore I encourage increased interaction among the Bangladeshi and South Asian sustainable tourism stakeholders through an introduction of the Bangladeshi tourism and key sustainable tourism stakeholders and The Views On Tourism Network group, a professional communication platform uniting the multiple tourism stakeholders in Bangladesh and South Asia. Follow this link to read the group introduction and become a group member .
Why Bangladesh?
Let there be no doubt. National as well as international: “The Bangladeshi tourism sector has indeed potential to develop – if the country learns from the success and failures of other tourism destinations”. This is my profound conviction, Majbritt Thomsen, a Danish expatriate with a MA in tourism, living and travelling in Bangladesh from 2007 to 2010, writer of the DANIDA report Introduction to the tourism industry in Bangladesh (2008) and who is still in ongoing contact with a variety of people and key stakeholders related to the national and regional tourism sector.
The Views On Tourism project started as my one woman project in late 2008, based on an urge to facilitate Bangladeshi access to tourism knowledge and networking. Get an overview of my PR initiatives including seminars and articles on the status of the Bangladeshi tourism sector, the potential of a sustainable tourism development and the concept of the Views On Tourism Project.
What about the future?
Nobody knows the future, but I have good reasons to be optimistic.
June 2010 I moved back to Denmark. At that time the online awareness of the Views On Tourism Project included 57.000 blog readers and 324 group members. At the end of 2010 the project reached its 2ed year anniversary with more than 100.000 blog visitors and 450 group members. December 2011 marked the 3 year anniversary, 300.000 blog visitors and 750 group members.
The Views On Tourism Project has indeed showed its potential to become an online communication platform for a sustainable tourism movement in Bangladesh and South Asia. Furthermore it has been fantastic to witness the increasing interest for sustainable tourism knowledge and network world-wide.
To further strengthening this positive tourism movement will require increased local commitment, long-term sustainable initiatives and action. This is already happening and there is no doubt that if the tourism stakeholders in Bangladesh and South Asia unite they have the resources, knowledge and visions to succeed.
I will continue to manage the basic Views On Tourism services from Denmark and, when time permits it, participate in network comments and share a blog article. It is my hope to experience the growth of an active Bangladeshi and South Asian grass-root tourism movement through the free of cost Views On Tourism services.
This is interesting and very important times ….
Yours sincerely, Majbritt Thomsen
i’m a HTM student of AIUB. simply i love this web page as a knowledge source.
I am doing a Scout project on sustainable tourism, and this site is a big inspiration to me. I will e-mail and tell my friends about your work and show them the link to this page. Keep up the good work!