A few weeks ago I was interviewed by SwissInfo in my role as UIMLA president. It was a great experience and we talked about some interesting topics. The journalist, Dale, had some great insights and understanding about how mountain tourism is changing. It’s great to see some coverage on these issues. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/a-good-reason-not-to-cry-but-to-welcome-the-wolf-/46863294 SWI swissinfo.ch is […]
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As part of my role as UIMLA President, I was invited to Macedonia for a week. This was part of a project funded by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the goals are to build sustainable value chains in mountain tourism. I’ve been following Macedonia for a while, while I was a UK delegate to
I’ve known for a year that the annual assembly of the Union of International Mountain Leader Associations (UIMLA) was going to in Poprad, Slovakia at the foothills of the High Tatras. It’s somewhere I’ve never visited and I really looked forward to it. It’s quite extraordinary to visit countries that didn’t exist on the map when
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In November I had a brief trip to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. I was representing the Union of International Mountain Leader Associations (UIMLA) at the annual congress of the UIAA – the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation. This was a first for UIMLA as we were applying to be a member of the UIAA. I was basically there
