Harold Goodwin (professor)

Harold Goodwin (born 23 June 1952) is an English educator, academic and responsible tourism campaigner and expert. He was Professor of Responsible Tourism Management at Leeds Metropolitan University from 2006 until 2013 and then went on to join Manchester Metropolitan University where he remains a Professor Emeritus and a senior fellow in the Institute of Place Management. He is also the responsible tourism advisor for the World Travel Market.

Early life and education
Goodwin was born and bred in Coventry and has lived in Faversham since 1977 where he has been chair of the Faversham Society since 2015. He studied Social Sciences at The University of York, followed by a PhD in Political Science and Government at The University of Manchester. Initially, he worked in Adult Education for the Workers' Educational Association in Kent, and then for the Inner London Education Authority in Camden.

Career
Goodwin is the founder and managing director of the Responsible Tourism Partnership (founded in 2002). He also founded the International Centre for Responsible Tourism in 2002.

He was research director on a three-year government-funded project investigating Tourism, Conservation and Sustainable Development at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology and at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Greenwich.

Harold Goodwin co-founded activist travel company Responsible Travel in 2001 with Justin Francis. He has chaired the judges of the annual World Responsible Tourism Awards since 2004. He was a founder member of the Pro-Poor Tourism Partnership with Caroline Ashley and Dilys Roe.

Goodwin co-chaired the Cape Town Conference on Responsible Tourism in Destinations in 2002 and drafted the Declaration. He wrote Taking Responsibility for Tourism in 2011 and Responsible Tourism: Using Tourism for Sustainable Development in 2016. In 2022 he organised the signing of the 2022 Responsible Tourism Charter on Magna Carta Island.