I'm involved with the team at Responsible Cape Town (www.responsiblecapetown.co.za), and I can tell you that there will be a good number of Cape Town RT stories shared during RT Week by various people involved in RT (and related activities) in the Mother City. The mainstream media looks like it is also getting the bug, and we may have some coverage of RT Week as well.The challenge now is to get the 3000+ tourism businesses in the city to get online and participate in the broader global dialogue, meeting their colleagues from around the world and listening to their stories. I'm working right now to try to make that happen...we'll see.
Looking for ideas on how to get involved? Anyone can participate by joining the conversation, either online or with local friends, neighbours and colleagues. All it takes is to reach out and engage in conversations about responsible tourism — even better if you reach out to someone new. Ideas for getting started are to use the #rtweek2011 hashtag in Twitter, check out the Responsible Tourism Networking group or the RT Week event on Facebook, visit the Arty Forum, comment on the photos in the Ecotourism Africa Flickr group (and post your own to the group), or write your own tweet or post and share it.
I'll be posting updates here from time to time, and there will also be updates on the blog at responsiblecapetown.co.za -- or you can follow me on Twitter (kurt_a) if you want a prompt when the latest posts are up on Afrika T.
Background on RT Week 2011 available on the Planeta Wiki here.
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