A rather odd gait for a giraffe! This photo was taken in Murchison Falls National Park, one of two parks in Uganda where you can spot an abundance of these graceful creatures. But that’s not all that’s on offer in what is fast becoming Uganda’s most popular park. Covering an area of 3,840 square kilometres, the area is characterised by open plains, dotted with exotic Borassus Palms and Ugandan Kob, and host to a parade of elephants, lions, waterbucks, buffaloes and warthogs.
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OPINION: The Travel 3.0 Era – Local Travel
There is no right or wrong about how we position the Local Travel Movement, but its relevance is obvious. As I look at the evolution of travel, we are at the leading edge of what I would call Travel 3.0.
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Geotourism Challenge 2009, Urban Adventures Prize and Tourdust Scholarship Winners Announced
The results are in and the veil has been lifted on the top finalists! The entire whl.travel network congratulates NatureAir, PEPY and Wikiloc for their well-deserved rewards and recognition in the Geotourism Challenge 2009, to Ger to Ger, Context Travel and Cobati (Community Based Tourism Initiatives) as recipients of the first Urban Adventures Prize, and to Ger to Ger, Cape Race and RiverIndia for the scholarships they’ve won as part of the Tourdust Scholarship.
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YOU VOTED for the Winners of the 2009 Geotourism Challenge
The 2009 Geotourism Challenge: Power of Place – Sustaining the Future of Destinations has just turned the penultimate page of its final chapter. After 1368 nominations from 113 countries followed by 611 entries from 81 countries, a panel of expert judges — including a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a co-founder of Lonely Planet and the editor of National Geographic Traveler magazine — selected 10 finalists and now all the votes for the final three are being counted.
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The Power of Place: Sustaining the Future of Destinations
The team at whl.travel has partnered up with the National Geographic Centre for Sustainable Destinations and Ashoka to support the 2009 Geotourism Challenge. We are trying to indentify organisations doing great things to retain the “Power of Place” – sustaining the future of destinations for future generations. So please, join in. Put forward any initiatives out there you have seen which you think we all need to know about.
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Ashoka’s Changemakers: Rewarding Tourism as a Lever for Social Change
At the heart of the national flag of India is the Ashoka Chakra, a circular symbol depicting the wheel of darma. (‘Chakra’ in Sanskrit means ‘wheel’.) The Ashoka Chakra is so named because it is found on artefacts from the time of the Mauryan (ancient Indian) Emperor Ashoka the Great, one of the world’s greatest…
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