A "holiday" in Oman
I have just spent a week in
rich cultural heritage and a diversity of landscapes. We visited the Oryx
reintroduction programme and the conserved houses in
collections.
While I was there I had some meetings with OMRAN and the Ministry of Tourism
about what Responsible Tourism might have to offer
I had one of the most thoughtful and questioning lecture audiences I have had
the pleasure to address on Monday evening hosted by the Oman Environment
Society.
has a lot to offer those tourists who want to explore Arab culture and to
experience the desert; there is even a remnant of cloud
forest.
We have three alumni in
Dana Sarhan is a current student working for the tourism development company Omran in
Tara Hammond is working for Six Senses at Zighy
Bay as Social and Environment Officer and Claudia Eckhardt is
working as an independent consultant based out of
For a report of discussions about RT in Oman see Oman Observer
With three alumni working together in
prosper