the judges

Harold Goodwin

 Justin Francis Graham Boynton
Fiona Jeffery Neel Inamdar Andrew Cooper
Ian Reynolds Graeme Gourlay Tricia Barnett
Sue Hurdle Debbie Hindle Keith Richards
Harold Goodwin Harold Goodwin, Chair of Judges, is Professor of Responsible Tourism Management at Leeds Metropolitan University and Director of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism - a post-graduate research and training centre where Harold runs an MSc in Responsible Tourism Management. The Masters is the first of its kind. The programme has been carefully designed to ensure that students get the practical skills and range of knowledge necessary to achieve responsible tourism - the programme is holistic covering issues and principles, natural and cultural heritage, local economic development and poverty reduction, social anthropology and professional practice in achieving change and managing tourism in destinations.

The course attracts students from the industry and from around the world and has sister organisations in India, South Africa and The Gambia. Harold drafted the Cape Town Declaration on Responsible Tourism in Destinations in 2002 which defined the agenda for change and has written extensively on responsible tourism and worked with UK companies and with governments in Bhutan, South Africa and The Gambia to develop and implement responsible tourism policies. He is a partner in the Pro-Poor Tourism Partnership and Director of the Responsible Tourism Partnership. www.haroldgoodwin.info
Justin Francis Justin Francis is CEO of online travel directory responsibletravel.com which he co-founded in 2001. Justin says: "responsibletravel.com enables tourists to find and book a very wide range of more authentic holidays that maximise the benefits to local communities, and minimise negative environmental impacts. There are over 3000 holidays on responsibletravel.com in over 145 countries run by over 270 carefully screened tour operators, and 100s of accommodations. Tourists are also able to read fellow travellers' reviews of these holidays, including their thoughts on responsible tourism".

responsibletravel.com organises The Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards in association with The Telegraph, World Travel Market, Geographical Magazine and headline sponsors Virgin Holidays. Justin is a Trustee of The Travel Foundation, and writes regularly on responsible tourism for magazines and papers.
Fiona Jeffery Fiona Jeffery is Chairman of World Travel Market. Staged annually in London under one roof, World Travel Market is a business to business exhibition for the whole global travel trade industry to meet, network, negotiate and conduct business.

Fiona joined the Marketing Department of Reed Exhibition Companies in 1986 and by 1988 she was a Group Marketing Manager responsible for the marketing activity surrounding 17 of Reed Exhibition Companies' leading annual events within the travel, catering, computing, electronics, book publishing, fashion and jewellery industries. She then became Marketing Director in 1991. In 1992 she launched Arabian Travel Market in the Middle East and in December 1993, took over responsibility as Exhibition Director of World Travel Market as well as British Travel Trade Fair in 1996. In 2000 she was appointed Group Exhibition Director for World Travel Market & British Travel Trade Fair and Marketing and Business Development Director for Reed Travel Exhibitions responsible for the groups global communications and strategic development. In 2005 she became Managing Director, World Travel Market, and in 2007 was appointed Chairman.

In 1998 she founded and is now Chairman of the international travel and tourism industry charity - Just a Drop. Its aims are to deliver clean water to over 1.1 billion children worldwide who have no access near to their homes and reduce the instance of child death caused by polluted water in the world.
Neel Inamdar Neel Inamdar is the Ecotourism Business Advisor for Conservation International. He has over 15 years experience in hospitality management and operations in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors in Africa, the UK and the United States. He has built, owned and operated 300 bed beach resorts, safari camps and a tour operating company specializing in safaris in East Africa. A graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration, Neel is a liaison and advisor between private corporations and non-governmental organizations.
Andy Cooper Andrew Cooper is the Director General of the Federation of Tour Operators(FTO), the association representing the interests of the larger tour operating groups in relation to political issues, as well as working jointly in the areas of Health & Safety, Crisis Management and Responsible Tourism. He is also the Director General of IFTO, the International Federation of Tour Operators (IFTO). He has held those positions since June 2003, having previously worked for the Airtours (MyTravel) Group as UK Head of Legal Services for some 14 years. In that role, as well as advising the tour operating & retail businesses on all aspects of their legal liability, he had responsibility for the customer Health & Safety function & crisis management procedures, as well as the initial development of the MyTravel Corporate Social Responsibility policies.
- Ian Reynolds was the Chief Executive of the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) from 1994 until September 2005, following a 25 year career with IBM. He is currently non-executive chairman of Citybond Holdings PLC, a director of General Industries PLC and NTP Limited, which provides training throughout the travel industry. He is also a trustee of the Travel Foundation, the Family Holiday Association and St Mary's Paddington Charitable Trust. Ian is a member of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, the Royal Society for Arts, the Institute of Travel and Tourism, the Tourism Society and a Companion of the Institute of Management.
Tricia Barnett Tricia Barnett is the Director of Tourism Concern, the UK-based charity that campaigns for ethical and fairly-traded tourism. Tricia says "Tourism Concern is not against travel and tourism - it's just about how it to do so that local people benefit too. Tourism Concern campaigns against exploitation in tourism and to ensure that local people in destinations benefit from it. Too often people are embedded in poverty through tourism and their human rights are compromised by it. Having mounted several successful campaigns to support people in destinations, Tourism Concern welcomes new members and supporters to work with it towards a more balanced future for tourism." Tricia has travelled the world, working as a social worker, as a trade union activist, with her work on newspapers and being an anthropologist. She says her job as director "has been privileged in many ways" as she has been invited to talk to grassroots groups "suffering from the negative consequences of tourism and enabled them to understand and deal with the global trade they are part of". She has spoken in places as diverse as the UN, at the European Union and schools and churches. Her passion about the issues is undiminished after fifteen years!
Sue Hurdle Sue Hurdle is the Chief Executive of The Travel Foundation, the government & industry-backed sustainable tourism charity that helps the UK travel industry to take effective action on sustainable tourism. It offers a unique resource to the tourism industry, helping to safeguard resources on which business depends and balancing the need for sustainability with profitability. The Foundation's focus is on protecting and enhancing the environment and improving the well-being of destination communities. Enriching the tourism experience, now and in to the future. Sue's career began with Thomas Cook, which in 1993, sponsored her Master's degree in "Tourism & Social Responsibility". Inspired by what she learned, Sue set about persuading leading travel companies that sustainability is good for business and five years later, The Travel Foundation was launched - the world's first industry partnership to help companies put sustainable tourism into practice.
Debbie Hindle Debbie Hindle is the Managing Director and a founder of bgb communications and has worked on sustainable travel issues for organisations ranging from tourist boards to NGOs. She is also a Member of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation's Crisis Action Team, the UNWTO Global Business Leaders Forum and represents bgb as a member of the Travel Foundation's Forum. Debbie says "bgb communications was founded in 1991 and is now the UK's leading specialist travel and leisure communications company. bgb's clients range from destinations such as the Caribbean, Wales, Namibia and Lisbon, through to hotels, online travel companies, airlines, ferry and cruise companies. bgb is a wholehearted advocate of harnessing responsible tourism to protect and support local people and wildlife in the places we visit. All bgb's staff travel is carbon offset through Friends of Conservation and bgb makes a voluntary donation to The Travel Foundation charity for every media journey it arranges."
Keith Richards Keith is a barrister and ABTA's Head of Business Development and Consumer Affairs. He writes and broadcasts on consumer affairs having been Senior Campaigns Lawyer at the UK’s Consumers’ Association and legal editor of the journal Consumer Policy Review for many years. Keith is responsible for ABTA’s policy and strategy work on Corporate Responsibility including sustainable development, holiday health and safety, and disability access issues. He also heads up ABTA complaints-handling, access to justice, education and events departments. He is a member of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC), the statutory body responsible for advising the UK Government on disabilities and accessible transport, and is chair of its Aviation Committee. He represents the European travel trade industry body (ECTAA) on the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) disabilities group. He also represents the UK outbound tourism industry on the European Commission Tourism Sustainability Group.

Graham Boynton

 Graham Boynton is Group Travel Editor of the Telegraph Media Group a position he has held for the last 10 years. Having grown up in Africa he has retained a strong interest in African wildlife and wilderness conservation issues. To that end he has written extensively on the subject for both British and American publications. He spent ten years in New York as a senior editor at Conde Nast Traveler and, helping to steer its responsible tourism agenda, at the same time writing on African conservation and political issues for a variety of magazines including The Nation, Esquire and Vanity Fair. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Last Days In Cloud Cuckooland, which deals with the end of colonial rule in Africa.
Graham Gourlay Graeme Gourlay is the publisher of Geographical magazine and runs Circle Publishing which also produces DIVE magazine, Go Active, Business Franchise and Christian Aid News. He launched Circle 10 years ago after a successful career as a national newspaper journalist - he has been news editor of The Sunday Times and features editor and news editor of The Mail on Sunday. Established in 1935, Geographical is an award-winning lively, colourful monthly magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG), presenting geography in its broadest sense. It has exciting and beautifully illustrated articles on people, places, cultures, adventure, responsible travel, history, science and environmental issues.