Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability: Implications for Tourism and Hospitality

Dr Fahad Abbasi interviews Charles Barker on "Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability: Implications for Tourism and Hospitality",Charles Barker an experienced hotelier and motivational speaker, a keen marine conservationist explains the need for practical measures to mitigate Climate Change and its impact in an interview with Dr Fahad Abbasi.

Charles is an Advisory Board Director with the Hong Kong Shark Foundation, an anti-shark-finning NGO. Charles has written four novels and is a regular blogger on the environment, global politics and current affairs.

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The good hotel industry and tour operators play a key role in promoting tourism in any place. In today’s episode with the host NighatAman we have guests Mr. Qamar Wazir (tour operator) from the Baltistan region and Mr. Syed Fakharud din (Hotel Owner) from Gilgit.

To facilitate the flux of tourism the tour operator and hotel industry face various challenges. The lack of resources in the region is prominent which is discussed in this podcast and the suggestion will be noted given by the experts.

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Around the world, Tourism is one of the important aspects that contributes a lot to a county's GDP growth. Despite having fascinating and pristine places, we failed to promote tourism in Pakistan for different reasons.

In today's episode, with the host, Ms. NighatAman let's hear Mr. Amjad Masood (tourism consultant) about the challenges faced by the tourism department of GB in facilitating tourists. He has been affiliated with the tourism department since the 1980s. Furthermore, this episode highlights adventure tourism, cultural tourism in GB, and how to promote local and international tourism in the region is part of today discussion.

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Welcome to the 3rd episode of treasure corridor to explore the culture and traditions of Gilgit-Baltistan. Today the host Fahad Abbasi is in conversation with the youth of GB and the guest of today's program are Ms. Nageen Fatima, Mr. Zeeshan, and Ms. Hasina (students of Quaid-I-Azam University).

The episode contains details about the tour operators of GB and their contribution to promoting tourism in the region. Moreover, the glaciers and high peaks of the region play a vital role in a tourist attraction, and of course, the role of women in promoting tourism and women empowerment in GB is a great topic to discuss in today's podcast.

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Before visiting GB let's have a look at their culture and know about their traditions. This episode brings you an exciting detailed description of the culture and the people of GB. With the host (Fahad Abbasi) today, we have students of the Anthropology department Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad as our guests.

We will hear Mr. Yasir who has great knowledge of the languages of GB, Fahimda Ashraf will guide us to the tourist places, ShaziaBatool will highlight the Religious tourism and unexplored tourist places in the Skardu region, Azmeena Mustafa will Talk about Myths, mountains, and shamanism in GB, Aroob Ashraf will guide us on Gemstones, and lastly Nouman will tell us about online data and access to the GB.

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Pakistan/UK New Perspectives 2022 

The programme showcases the cultural wealth and contemporary creativity of both countries; facilitate professional collaboration for culture, creative and education sectors; and focus on a shared future through building lasting partnerships. It focuses on challenging perceptions, particularly amongst the younger generation in both countries.

Going through the multiple engagement activities like reserch , interviews , listening , singing attending interactive talks , girls and boys students from #GilgitBaltistan studying in different disciplines took an active part in the production of these podcast by contributing in it with their research and voices. This Series of six Podcasts is produced in collaboration with #BritishCouncilPakistan #quaideazamuniversity  ,#anthropology  Department and #QAURadio .

The project aims to promote Tourism of #GilgitBaltistan by highlight the elements of #sustainable and #EcoFriendly  #tourism . and taking it to a wider public through digital opportunities . Our U.K Partner from #AberdeenUniversity Professor Dr Zaheer Khan explained various aspects and strategies of promoting  Tourism to international tourists. And how the entrepreneurs and stalk holders of Gilgit Baltistan Tourism can devise such digital activities like this podcast to reach the international audience. 

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