Top Environmentalist To Open WTM World Responsible Tourism Day

. September 03, 2010

September 2, 2010 - Tony Juniper, one of the world's best known ecologists and forthright campaigner is opening this year's WTM World Responsible Tourism Day on Wednesday 10 November at ExCeL, London. Juniper is the former director of Friends of the Earth UK, campaigning and rallying public opinion and vice chair of the 70-strong network of national organisations of Friends of the Earth International.

Fiona Jeffery, Chairman of World Travel Market said that Tony Juniper would bring a different perspective to WTM World Responsible Tourism Day.

"He is frank and honest about how we need to use the planet to ensure travel and tourism has a tomorrow", she said. "Over the past 25 years, Tony has campaigned for a more sustainable society at local, national and international levels. WTM World Responsible Tourism Day is beginning to earn a reputation as straight talking and honest, stripping away the propaganda and the hype. In opening WTM World Responsible Tourism Day 2010, Tony Juniper will bring fresh ideas, extensive knowledge and boundless enthusiasm to the cause of responsible tourism."

A major contributor to many of Friends of the Earth's most important worldwide achievements, he is also a prolific writer.

Co-Writer of Prince's Book
Juniper is currently helping HRH Prince of Wales to write a book called 'Harmony' about how man has become dangerously disconnected from nature. As humanity faces the multiple challenges of climate change, ecological destruction, economic instability and continuing human poverty, 'Harmony' encourages the world to restore the lost balance between Man and Nature and to follow a more philosophical path which reconnects humankind with ancient wisdom and intuition. He also writes for two leading UK newspapers - Sunday Times and The Guardian and is editor-in-chief of National Geographic's 'Green' Magazine. He advises several international companies on their sustainability strategies and frequently speaks and lectures on environmental and sustainability questions throughout the word. He is an advisory panel member with the UK's Science Museum, the National Trust and the British Council and a board member of Climate for Ideas, an environmental research organisation. A former professional ornithologist, Juniper spearheaded a programme with Birdlife International to prevent the extinction of critically endangered parrots. He wrote the companion volume to the BBC series 'Saving Planet Earth' (2007), 'How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take To Change A Planet? (2007) and 'Spix's Macaw:The Race To Save The World's Rarest Bird '(2002).

  • The WTM World Responsible Tourism Day opening ceremony will be held at 10.30 am on Wednesday 10 November at Platinum Suite 4, ExCeL London.

About World Travel Market
World Travel Market, the premier global event for the travel industry, is the must-attend four-day business-to-business exhibition for the worldwide travel and tourism industry. Almost 46,000 senior travel industry professionals, government ministers and international press, embark on ExCeL - London every November to network, negotiate and discover the latest industry opinion and trends at WTM. WTM, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2009, is the event where the travel industry conducts and concludes its deals.WTM 2009 will generate £1,139 million of travel industry contracts, revealed independent research by Fusion Communications. WTM is owned by the world's leading events organiser Reed Exhibitions (RE), which organises a portfolio of other travel industry events including Arabian Travel Market and International Luxury Travel Market. RE holds more than 500 events in 38 countries throughout Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific covering 47 industry sectors including aerospace & aviation, healthcare, manufacturing and sport & recreation. In 2008 RE, part of the Reed Elsevier group, brought together more than six million industry professionals from around the world generating billions of dollars in business.

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