Good news in travel & tourism November 2022

“Good news in travel & tour­ism” wraps up a month of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and experiences.

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• “Good Tour­ism” Insights
• “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites
• Good news from friends
  TPCC | Seable | tid­bits
• Friends indeed

“Good Tourism” is where free thought travels

Did you ever want to write a thought­ful piece about the state of the tour­ism industry; how we got here; how we can make it bet­ter (or avoid the worst)?

Has a lack of con­fid­ence in your writ­ing held you back? Well, please don’t let it. 

Your cor­res­pond­ent is here to help you pub­lish your “GT” Insight, just as I’ve helped pro­fess­ors trans­late their Aca­demese into plain Eng­lish; just as I’ve helped those for whom Eng­lish is their second (or more) language. 

If you sub­mit a draft that com­plies with the simple “GT” Insight guidelines, I will per­son­ally copy edit your work and ensure that you are happy with it before I click ‘Pub­lish’.

It’s part of “GT’s” mis­sion to offer a plat­form for truly diverse perspectives.

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“GT” Insights: Informed perspectives on the industry

The “Good Tour­ism” Blog pub­lishes informed opin­ions on the issues facing the travel & tour­ism industry, everyone’s busi­ness. “GT” Insights are diverse per­spect­ives writ­ten by, for, and about our sec­tor. Here are the most recent:

Standing up for development, growth, natural & cultural heritage in Niger tourism

(Pub­lished Novem­ber 1, 2022)

Recog­nising the enorm­ous poten­tial and chal­lenges of Niger tour­ism, Issoufou Adamou Has­sane leads a NGO that he says is “lay­ing the found­a­tion” for tourism’s reviv­al in the west Afric­an nation. But they need resources and part­ners. “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner the World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture & Her­it­age (WTACH) invited Mr Adamou Has­sane to con­trib­ute this “GT” Insight.

Click here for a “GT” Insight about tour­ism in Niger by Issoufou Adamou Has­sane.

Does sustainable tourism require ‘travel for everyone’?

(Pub­lished Novem­ber 29, 2022)

Is ‘travel for every­one’ a pre­requis­ite for truly sus­tain­able tour­ism? Ira­ni­an schol­ar S Fate­meh Mosta­favi Shirazi pos­its the idea in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight.

Click here for a “GT” Insight about sus­tain­able tour­ism and ‘travel for every­one’ by S Fate­meh Mosta­favi Shirazi.

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“GT” Insight Bites: Diverse perspectives on important topics

A “GT” Insight Bites post is a col­lec­tion of short writ­ten responses to an identic­al set of pro­pos­i­tions and/or ques­tions that The “Good Tour­ism” Blog puts to a diverse range of travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers. Here is the most recent:

What are tourism’s biggest challenges & threats over the next five years?

(Pub­lished Novem­ber 22, 2022)

Over the next five years, what is the single biggest chal­lenge or threat facing tour­ism where you work, or that you have iden­ti­fied through your research and study? 

And what are the key strategies that your organ­isa­tion, des­tin­a­tion, or the industry at large should employ to over­come it?

It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites question.

Your cor­res­pond­ent put the ques­tion to a range of travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers — “GT” Insight authors, “GT” Part­ners, and their invit­ees — and invited emailed writ­ten responses of no more than 300 words. 

Thanks to the 15 respond­ents who shared their thoughts. Their answers appear in the order received. Click/touch a name to go to their answer:

• Greg Bak­un­zi — Reviv­ing com­munity-led pro­grams in Rwanda
• Saverio Francesco Ber­to­lu­cci — Mass travel, under­ca­pa­city, and overtourism
• Sudip­ta K Sarkar — The low qual­ity of tour­ism & hos­pit­al­ity employment
• K Michael Hay­wood — The ‘great resig­na­tion’ from tour­ism & hos­pit­al­ity jobs
• Edwin Magio — Cli­mate change & cli­mate action
• Wolfgang Georg Arlt — ‘The cli­mate catastrophe’
• Jim Butcher — Trans­port­a­tion & energy
• Cato Hol­ter­man — Tour­ism is ‘highly sens­it­ive to cli­mate change’
• Yesaya San­dang — Rein­vent­ing tour­ism for ‘eco­lo­gic­al integ­rity’ in Indonesia
• Peace Mutoni — Slower growth, new mar­kets for Rwanda
• Sham­iso Nyajeka — Poor gov­ernance in Afric­an tour­ism development
• Richard A Shep­ard — COVID, war, infla­tion … What now for the Black Sea?
• Issoufou Adamou Has­sane — Social and eco­nom­ic sta­bil­ity in Niger
• Trav­is Clark — Suc­cess is a threat to Khao Sok, Thailand
• Jona­thon Day — ‘Cross­ing the chasm’: Main­stream­ing sus­tain­ab­il­ity in tourism
• What do you think?

Pre­vi­ous “GT” Insight Bites:

• ‘Tour­ism is built on the back­bone of white suprem­acy’. What do you think?
• Really, what’s the dif­fer­ence? ‘Sus­tain­able tour­ism’ vs ‘regen­er­at­ive tourism’
• Want a career in tour­ism? Import­ant things you should know
• Diverse per­spect­ives on travel & tour­ism and a fairer world
• Diverse per­spect­ives on eco­nom­ic degrowth and tourism
• Diverse per­spect­ives on vis­it­or dispersion

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Good news from friends

Good news in travel & tour­ism from the won­der­ful organ­isa­tions that make “GT” pos­sible. Here is some of what happened this month in the “Good Tour­ism” network:

Tourism Panel on Climate Change (TPCC) publishes first Horizon Papers

(Pub­lished Novem­ber 21, 2022)

The Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) has pub­lished its first ‘Hori­zon Papers’; one on the top­ic of redu­cing aviation’s green­house gas emis­sions, anoth­er on the fin­an­cial resi­li­ence of tour­ism organ­isa­tions affected by cli­mate change.

TPCC’s Hori­zon Papers are lead­ing-edge think pieces to stim­u­late crit­ic­al exchanges at the inter­sec­tion of cli­mate change and tour­ism. They are com­mis­sioned from recog­nised experts in the field and are peer-reviewed. 

Down­load the Hori­zon Papers in full from TPCC.info/downloads along with the TPCC’s ‘Found­a­tion Frame­work’ that its Exec­ut­ive Board presen­ted at the UN Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence (COP27) in Egypt, Novem­ber 10.

Click here for the full sponsored post “On avi­ation emis­sions & fin­an­cial risk: Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) pub­lishes first Hori­zon Papers”.

Unprecedented Tourism Panel on Climate Change unveiled today at COP27

(Pub­lished Novem­ber 10, 2022)

• The ‘Found­a­tion Frame­work’ for the Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) announced dur­ing COP27.
• Cre­ated by the Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Glob­al Cen­ter, TPCC will devel­op indic­at­ors to accel­er­ate tour­ism cli­mate action.
• TPCC will advance tourism’s pro­gress towards Par­is Cli­mate Agree­ment goals.

Click here for the full sponsored post on “Unpre­ced­en­ted Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change unveiled today at COP27”.

Experts to unveil Tourism Panel on Climate Change (TPCC) at COP27

(Pub­lished Novem­ber 7, 2022)

• Lead­ing experts of the new Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) will present its ‘Found­a­tion Frame­work’ dur­ing COP27 in Egypt.
• Cre­ated by the Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Glob­al Cen­ter, TPCC will provide object­ive met­rics to accel­er­ate glob­al cli­mate action in travel & tourism.

Click here for the full sponsored post on “Experts to unveil Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) at COP27”.

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Holidays for the visually impaired: Seable runs crowdfunding campaign

(Pub­lished Novem­ber 24, 2022)

“Seable is the only multi-award win­ning tour oper­at­or in the United King­dom to cre­ate assisted, act­ive, and tailored hol­i­days for the visu­ally impaired.

“We strive to cre­ate access­ible hol­i­days that improve inde­pend­ence, inclu­sion, and well­being, offer­ing indi­vidu­al oppor­tun­it­ies to increase con­fid­ence, learn new skills, and make lifelong friends.”

Click here to read the full sponsored post, which was offered free-of-charge to assist Seable in their crowd­fund­ing cam­paign, “Hol­i­days for the visu­ally impaired: Seable runs crowd­fund­ing cam­paign”.

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Good news from friends ‘tidbits’

SUNx Malta con­cerned about trans­port emis­sions
“We need to reflect on trans­port emis­sions and align them with a cli­mate-neut­ral 2050. Emis­sions must hit net zero by 2050 to lim­it glob­al warm­ing, to sur­viv­able levels. They must also peak soon, with a 45% fall by 2030 and a basic require­ment of a 1.5°C scen­ario for 2050.” So says SUNx. News­let­ter sign up.

SUNx Malta to launch pod at COP 27
SUNx Malta will launch a new pod­cast series at COP 27 in Egypt. The pod will be hos­ted by Ged Brown, Founder of Low Sea­son Trav­el­ler, and will fea­ture SUNx Pres­id­ent Geof­frey Lip­man. Prof Lip­man will be attend­ing COP as an Envoy of the Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Glob­al Centre, Saudi Arabia.

COP27 edi­tion of SUNx’ ‘eXist’ out now
eXist, the monthly e‑bulletin of SUNx Malta, is out now. It’s the “COP27 edi­tion” with the Cli­mate Friendly Travel Registry and new pod­cast series in the spotlight.

Khiri Travel is hir­ing, pub­lishes 2023 travel guides
Khiri Core is seek­ing a sus­tain­ab­il­ity coordin­at­or and a mar­ket­ing exec­ut­ive; Khiri Indone­sia needs a product/account man­ager; Khiri Viet­nam wants a reser­va­tions exec­ut­ive; and Khiri Cam­bod­ia could do with an oper­a­tions coordin­at­or. Find out more and apply. Khiri Travel has also pub­lished a range of travel guides for its des­tin­a­tions in 2023. Find them linked from Khir­i’s Face­book page.

‘Khiri Pulse’ pod­cast heads to Sri Lanka
Khiri Travel’s pod­cast Khiri Pulse is in Sri Lanka this month, dis­cuss­ing the loc­al cuisine as well as how to motiv­ate the young­er gen­er­a­tion to work in hospitality. 

Culin­ary cul­tur­al exchange in Rwanda
A volun­teer from CC-JOBS found­a­tion recently vis­ited the Red Rocks Inter­cul­tur­al Centre and joined the loc­al com­munity in a cul­tur­al exchange pro­gram focus­ing on loc­al culin­ary arts. Both organ­isa­tion “strive for social devel­op­ment for loc­al com­munit­ies with the loc­al com­munit­ies”. Red Rocks on Face­book.

Join Red Rocks’ com­munity devel­op­ment edu­ca­tion pro­grammes
Jour­ney into the remote vil­lages sur­round­ing Vol­ca­noes Nation­al Park, Rwanda, as you learn how loc­als pre­serve their nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al her­it­age while build­ing bet­ter lives. Gain an insight into their chal­lenges and help them build long-term solu­tions with Red Rocks Ini­ti­at­ive for Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment. 

Valen­cia to host sum­mit on cul­tur­al her­it­age in tour­ism
The World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture and Her­it­age (WTACH) is organ­ising “the first glob­al sum­mit focused on Cul­tur­al Her­it­age in Tour­ism” to take place Septem­ber 24 – 25, 2023, in Valen­cia, Spain. Event inform­a­tion and regis­tra­tion will be hos­ted on WTACH.org in the com­ing weeks.

Greg Bak­un­zi appears on ‘Five in Five’
Red Rocks Rwanda and Red Rocks Ini­ti­at­ive for Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment founder Greg Bak­un­zi has appeared on WTACH’s ‘Five in Five’ inter­view.

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The importance of good partnerships

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All “GT” Part­ners enjoy out­stand­ing value, includ­ing the oppor­tun­ity every week to con­trib­ute news to the “GT” news­let­ter and these monthly wraps.

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Friends indeed

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Stay healthy, smile, have a good month ahead … And when you travel, remember:

It’s not ‘no’. It’s ‘know’.

Gotta go? Then go!
If you’ve time, go slow
If you don’t, try low
Do what you know is good
And know there is more to know

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