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		<title>OPINION: Will Some Donors Never Grow Up?</title>
		<link>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/07/01/opinion-will-some-donors-never-grow-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Nicholls
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Private enterprises usually operate on the principle of the smallest amount of energy and funding required to produce the greatest outcome. In striking (and disturbing) counterpoint to this, it seems to me that too many donor organisations – both international or domestic – operate in a parallel but opposite world guided by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPINION: Is Local Interaction Essential for Local Travel?</title>
		<link>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/06/08/opinion-is-local-interaction-essential-for-local-travel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/06/08/opinion-is-local-interaction-essential-for-local-travel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Nicholls
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This article was first published by our friends at The Local Travel Movement, who have agreed to its republication here.
View the original article on the Local Travel Movement blog.
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I recently had friends around for a dinner party. They&#8217;re all in the 50-60 age bracket and well travelled, so we talked about an issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Update on the Popular Uprising to Save Turkey&#8217;s Yuvarlakçay River</title>
		<link>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/05/03/an-update-on-the-popular-uprising-to-save-turkeys-yuvarlakcay-river/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/05/03/an-update-on-the-popular-uprising-to-save-turkeys-yuvarlakcay-river/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 21:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ethan Gelber
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News Update: The development project described below that would have wreaked havoc on the pristine wilderness surrounding Turkey&#8217;s Yuvarlakçay River appears to have been forestalled — for the time being at least. Last week, Hamdi Akin, CEO of Akfen Holding, announced that the company has ceased plans for the construction of the proposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPINION: The Travel 3.0 Era &#8211; Local Travel</title>
		<link>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/04/07/opinion-the-travel-3-0-era-local-travel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/04/07/opinion-the-travel-3-0-era-local-travel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Len Cordiner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no right or wrong about how we position the Local Travel Movement, but its relevance is obvious
By Len Cordiner
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As I look at the evolution of travel, we are at the leading edge of what I would call Travel 3.0.
Travel 1.0
Travel 1.0 was about the travel professionals and travel experts telling us about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPINION: Keep the Door Open to Couchsurfing Networks</title>
		<link>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/03/23/opinion-keep-the-doors-open-to-open-door-home-accommodation-networks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/03/23/opinion-keep-the-doors-open-to-open-door-home-accommodation-networks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ethan Gelber
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There&#8217;s apparently a lot to be said for and against what I&#8217;ll dub &#8217;semiformal home-accommodation networks&#8217;. That&#8217;s a mouthful of a way to describe what a lot of people today simply call &#8216;couchsurfing.&#8217; It is known as well by many other informal names, but has been increasingly endowed with structure by the advent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPINION: Animal Conservation or Cruelty?</title>
		<link>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/03/04/opinion-animal-conservation-or-animal-cruelty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/03/04/opinion-animal-conservation-or-animal-cruelty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ashley Hiemenz
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It is well known that animals are a powerful tourism catalyst throughout the world. However, after the tragic death of Dawn Brancheau at Orlando SeaWorld on February 22nd, many questions have again been raised about the exploitation of whales and dolphins as entertainment. SeaWorld, owned by Blackstone, is a profitable business that fills [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPINION: Mining our Internet Social Circles</title>
		<link>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/02/24/opinion-mining-our-internet-social-circles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/02/24/opinion-mining-our-internet-social-circles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What needs to happen in the local travel knowledge website space…
By Stephen Chapman
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The internet is all about social these days, it has been for sometime, and as more of us become more active on the major social networking sites it&#8217;s becoming increasingly apparent that although our number of &#8216;friends&#8217;, &#8216;followers&#8217; or &#8216;connections&#8217; can be huge, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPINION: Get Lost, Go Local</title>
		<link>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/02/12/opinion-get-lost-go-local/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/02/12/opinion-get-lost-go-local/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ethan Gelber
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A Local Travel movement is finding its legs. Strong legs. Last weekend, in a step to find good solid ground upon which to exercise those legs, I published two blog posts about it, one on the now-defunct Lonely Planet Travel Blog hosted by Yahoo!7 Travel in Australia and the other on The Brooklyn Nomad&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say NO to the Hydroelectric Power Plant on Turkey&#8217;s Yuvarlakçay River</title>
		<link>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/01/13/say-no-to-the-hydroelectric-power-plant-on-turkeys-yuvarlakcay-river/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2010/01/13/say-no-to-the-hydroelectric-power-plant-on-turkeys-yuvarlakcay-river/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ethan Gelber
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The Muğla Province of southwest of Turkey is much beloved for many reasons – its scenic beauty, historic sites and archaeological ruins, and the many, many attractions of its Turquoise Coast. The area including Köycegiz, Sarigerme, Marmaris, Göcek and Dalyan is particularly well reputed for its natural glory. Unfortunately, the pristine sanctity of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPINION: Loco for Local &#8211; Travel Like It Should Be</title>
		<link>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2009/12/23/opinion-loco-for-local-travel-like-it-should-be/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whl.travel/blog/2009/12/23/opinion-loco-for-local-travel-like-it-should-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ethan Gelber
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I&#8217;ve been a fan of responsible travel for more than 20 years. I consider it the only way to go, although in the early days, it wasn&#8217;t always a simple thing to make happen; the time and resources required to gain local-level access to a desired destination so that I could visit it responsibly just weren&#8217;t always [...]]]></description>
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