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Tag: sustainable-tourism

Posted on February 5, 2025February 5, 2025

Birdfair: a reputational risk

Domestic tourism India

By JAVIER CALETRIO Mark Avery (Birdwatch, September 2024) argues that, with its overwhelming emphasis on ‘carbon guzzling trips abroad’, Birdfair looks more like a trade fair than a birding festival with a variety of interests. That was certainly my impression on my first visit in 2018. That year, of 396 stands, nearly half (187) were …

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