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Engaged in green: Crowne Plaza Vientiane, Laos


Crowne Plaza Vientiane, subject of a Sustainable Tourism Laos Showcase by "Good Tourism" Partner We Are Lao.

The first Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Laos Show­case by “GT” Des­tin­a­tion Part­ner WeAre­Lao asks: “How does IHG imple­ment its strict Green Engage glob­al guidelines in Laos?”  “It’s hard work to get to where we want to go,” said Crowne Plaza Vien­tiane Gen­er­al Man­ager Pat­ria Puyat, “but it can be done.” “Sus­tain­ab­il­ity is the right thing to do,” Ms Puyat said. […]

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‘Freeze or Fry Challenge’ highlights need to ACT NOW on climate crisis: SUNx


Fire vs ice. Image by thommas68 (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/fire-and-water-fight-hands-fire-2354583/

The travel & tour­ism industry is urged to help save the plan­et. Geof­frey Lip­man, Pres­id­ent of SUNx Malta, has wel­comed the start of Joe Biden’s Pres­id­ency with a chal­lenge for us all to use the moment to act now to help redress the dev­ast­at­ing impact of cli­mate change. “As a kid we had a silly joke […]

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Worldwide Travel Alliance announced


Worldwide Travel Alliance

New European sales & mar­ket­ing group tar­gets travel & tour­ism entit­ies world­wide ahead of post-COV­­ID vac­cine travel boom. The World­wide Travel Alli­ance (WTA) has been launched to provide sales, mar­ket­ing, rep­res­ent­a­tion and PR ser­vices to glob­al travel brands seek­ing European cus­tom­ers. The Alli­ance con­sists of six lead­ing sales and mar­ket­ing experts based in the UK, […]

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SUNx Malta to stage first Strong Earth Youth Summit


The ‘Strong Earth Youth Summit’ (SEYS), April 29, 2021

“Good Tour­ism” Part­ner announce­ment: Youth Sum­mit to cre­ate tomorrow’s Cli­mate Friendly Travel lead­ers through a vir­tu­al pro­gram of fun and edu­ca­tion­al events, as well as cre­ate Cli­mate Friendly Travel Cham­pi­ons. SUNx Malta will host the first ever cli­mate friendly youth travel sum­mit in April 2021. The ‘Strong Earth Youth Sum­mit’ (SEYS) will include lec­tures, workshops […]

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Why build well-being into destination resilience and tourism recovery?


Why build well being into destination resilience and recovery

Much has been writ­ten about includ­ing host com­munit­ies in des­tin­a­tion man­age­ment and tour­ism devel­op­ment decision-mak­ing, but how would one go about meas­ur­ing con­tent­ment, well-being, or even hap­pi­ness, on an ongo­ing basis? In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Paul Rogers of “GT” Insight Part­ner Plan­et Hap­pi­ness presents a solu­tion.  Pri­or to the onset of the COVID-19 global […]

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Khiri Travel to go carbon-neutral from January 2021


Little Home at Phu Langka National Park in Phayao Province, Thailand. Image supplied by Khiri Travel.

Khiri Travel is intro­du­cing com­pre­hens­ive off­set­ting pro­gram with Cli­mate­Care.  The DMC is also offer­ing new low emis­sions ‘slow travel’ hol­i­day options. Asi­an DMC Khiri Travel is on its way to becom­ing fully car­bon neut­ral.  As part of its approach to take respons­ib­il­ity for its impact on the envir­on­ment, Khiri Travel has partnered with cli­mate and […]

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