Prof Valeria Minghetti on peer review, overtourism, regenerative tourism, and how to succeed

May 14, 2024

Professor Valeria Minghetti: "[B]e curious. Never stop asking yourself questions. Curiosity and the desire to find solutions is what makes a difference ..."

“Nev­er stop ask­ing your­self ques­tions. Curi­os­ity and the desire to find solu­tions is what makes a dif­fer­ence,” accord­ing to Valer­ia Minghetti. Such an atti­tude will take young­sters a long way in travel & tour­ism, she reck­ons. And it must be redoubled at the very highest levels of aca­demia and industry. Saverio F Ber­to­lu­cci inter­viewed Prof Minghetti […]

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Venice ‘bookable’: Italians lose freedom of movement

May 8, 2024
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Are Venice’s new day-tripper rules and regulations having the desired effect? Or are they unreasonably restricting Italians' freedom of movement? Venice carnival masks image by Leo (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/venice-mask-venice-venice-carnival-4764619/ "GT" added "Halt!"

Are Venice’s new day-trip­per rules hav­ing the desired effect? Or are they unreas­on­ably restrict­ing Itali­ans’ free­dom of move­ment? This is Domin­ic Standish’s second “Good Tour­ism” Insight at the invit­a­tion of Tourism’s Hori­zon, a “GT” Insight Part­ner. [You too can write a “GT” Insight. Your organ­isa­tion can also become a “GT” Part­ner.] Since April 25, 2024, Venice […]

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“GT” Insight Bites: What constitutes ‘progress’ for travel & tourism in 2024?

April 2, 2024

What constitutes ‘progress’ for the travel & tourism industry where you work, or that you have identified through your observations, study, or research? Footprint photo by Jeremy Bishop (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-sand-with-heart-shaped-stones--mMEEkgj5fU

In 2024, what con­sti­tutes ‘pro­gress’ for the travel & tour­ism industry where you work, or that you have iden­ti­fied through your obser­va­tions, study, or research? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites ques­tion. Your cor­res­pond­ent put the ques­tion to the travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers in the “GT” net­work, invit­ing responses of no more than 300 words.  Thanks to the 18 […]

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Good news in travel & tourism February-March 2024

March 29, 2024

Share 'Good news in travel & tourism' as you would a picnic; as you would a public space ... Photo by Mason Dahl via unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/people-sitting-on-green-grass-field-near-green-trees-during-daytime--7AxXbZekDE

This ‘Good news in travel & tour­ism’ wraps up two months of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences: Feb­ru­ary and March 2024. Share ‘Good news’ as you would a pic­nic; as you would a pub­lic space … It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch an item on the shar­ing menu to go straight to it. And don’t for­get to share.) […]

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Emil Kukalj on balanced tourism, overtourism, ideology, pragmatism, and possibility

March 26, 2024

Emil Kukalj on balanced tourism, overtourism, pragmatism, and possibility

Emil Kukalj reck­ons ideo­logy is only use­ful if it is action­able and leads to net pos­it­ive res­ults. Saverio F Ber­to­lu­cci inter­viewed Mr Kukalj for a Tourism’s Hori­zon Inter­view. For this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Mr Ber­to­lu­cci reflects. [The full tran­script is on Substack.] Who is Emil Kukalj? I was delighted to dis­cuss research and devel­op­ment with an estab­lished figure […]

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Supporting ‘Bhutan Believe’: The SUSTOUR Bhutan story so far

and March 25, 2024

Supporting 'Bhutan Believe'

Bhutan believes it is (or could be) the world’s green­est and most respons­ible travel des­tin­a­tion. The SUSTOUR Bhutan pro­ject, fun­ded by the European Uni­on under its SWITCH-Asia pro­gramme, is sup­port­ing Bhutan’s effort to real­ise this goal with a focus on sus­tain­able, inclus­ive, and resi­li­ent tour­ism devel­op­ment.  “The SUSTOUR pro­ject stands as a beacon of relevance […]

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