Reimagining Tourism Through Justice with James Nadiope
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The RISE Traveler: Unpacking Conversations of Sustainable Travel
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What is the purpose of the Rise Traveler podcast and who is hosting this episode?
Hello and welcome. Wherever you are in the world today, thank you for joining us for the Rise Traveler, unpacking conversations of sustainable travel. We are here to talk to equal minded and socially conscious travelers, diversity and inclusion specialists, Wildlife conservationists, environmental activists, and anyone using travel as a way to uplift and inspire. Together, we will go a step beyond the Instagram ready world of travel and take a look at how travel can be a source of growth and development for all people and all communities. This podcast is an extension of the Rise Travel Institute. Five oh one C three nonprofit committed to empowering young travelers through educational programs. Research, study tours, and scholarships.
Visit Rise Travel Institute dot org to learn more. And now here's your host, Amy Hager.
All right, wherever you are in the world today, thank you for joining us on the Rise Traveler, unpacking conversations of sustainable travel. And we're really here to talk about how travel can be uplifting and inspiring and take a look how travel can be a source of growth and development for all people in all communities. And here at the Rise Travel Institute, we are committed to empowering young travelers through education programs, research, study tours, and scholarships. I'm your host today, Amy Hager. And joining me remotely is James, CEO and founder of Justice Tourism Foundation in Uganda. So, James, thanks so much for joining me today.
Thank you, thank you. Um I want to say hello to everybody who is listening to this conversation and watching this conversation. Uh my name is James Nadiope and I'm the founder and the CEO of Justice Tourism Foundation, um, a non-product organization that focuses on um um I'd say wildlife conservation, environmental conservation, and also focusing on the uh well being of the communities where tourism takes place here in Uganda.
Okay. And I know that, James, you are speaking at the RISE annual conference, and that is June 11th. And I think some of the the topics that you speak about and and the background and knowledge that you have is where we're gonna really dive into today. But I guess why why did you start the Justice Tourism Foundation? What really drew you to this this work?
Wonderful question. Thank you. Um I want to say that there could be Uh I think three resons.
Okay.
And uh Uh one of the Uh main one the main reason is that uh I realize that uh uh tourism is one of those uh Uh I would say Oh. Tools that Could you create jobs? Could you empower communities? Could uh Провай фіншо. sustainability uh not only in uganda but across the globe.
Yeah.
And uh but uh When I saw so many cooperators, what I would call like conventional cooperators arriving. In Uganda in big numbers and heading. to these rural communities where mostly tourism takes place, I realized that uh um yes, tourism was bringing in quite a lot of uh foreign funds, foreign exchange uh in terms of money. Um but then uh the local people that are living more at the where tourism takes place.
Yeah.
Uh were left more w they were more like you know, like they were left behind. And uh you know there was quite a great sense of poverty. that you could just see around most communities that are living adjacent to these national parks where tourism takes place. And I realise that I think Um there there needed something to be done to change the way tourism should be operated, especially in Uganda. Whereby the local communities could also be included in the tourism chain so that they can benefit from the tourism industry. And that's one of the reasons that a lot made us to start Justice Tourism Foundation to create a way of fairness whereby all parties that are involved. In the tourism chain could be on a win win kind of approach.
The guests would win. and be able to have a great experience to see you know, the wildlife experience, but also, you know, the local people that I would say that are the keepers. Of these worldlies uh could also benefit probably through um you know making handcrafts which
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