Harold Goodwin is Professor of Responsible Tourism Management in the School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality and the International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism and Hospitality at Leeds Metropolitan University. He has 10 years experience of developing the movement for Responsible Tourism working with companies, national and local government to realise the aspiration of making better places for people to live in, and better places for people to visit.  He is also a director of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism. For further information please visit www.haroldgoodwin.info

We face a series of challenges in Britain and around the world which we cannot address merely as consumers. Many of the things which make life worth living cannot be purchased in the High Street, or even at an out of town shopping centre. We cannot purchase a secure retirement or long term or emergency nursing care.

We have to both take responsibility and held others to account for making our society the way it is. I have over the last ten years worked mainly on the issues around issues and I have written about them in Taking Responsibility for Tourism.