Good news in travel & tourism July-August 2022

August 26, 2022

Rwandan banana wine banana beer urwagwa by Herve (CC0) via Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/qsQ6r9RycBY

“Good news in travel & tour­ism” wraps up two months of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences. Share it as you would urwag­wa (Rwandan banana beer / wine). It’s “GT”. And go!  (Click/touch a menu item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism” Insights “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites “Good Tour­ism” Insight Inter­view Good news […]

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“GT” Insight Bites: Diverse perspectives on travel & tourism and a fairer world

August 9, 2022

Fair fun for some. There are diverse perspectives on how travel & tourism can contribute to a fairer world. Photo by sebastien cordat via Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/ZGOlXxJz1dM

How can travel & tour­ism con­trib­ute to a fairer world? For this “GT” Insight Bites, your cor­res­pond­ent put the ques­tion above to a range of travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers, and invited writ­ten responses of up to 300 words.  My thanks to all 15 respond­ents.  Their answers appear in the order in which I received them … […]

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Good news in travel & tourism June 2022

June 29, 2022

Share 'Good news in travel & tourism June 2022' as you would a shabu hotpot. By Cera (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/muV_8wy4mzw

“Good news in travel & tour­ism” wraps up a month of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences. Share it as you would a shabu shabu. It’s “GT”. And go!  (Click/touch a menu item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism” Insights “Good Tour­ism” Insight BitesDis­per­sion | Degrowth Good news from friendsGlob­al | Africa | Asia Friends indeed “GT” […]

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“GT” Insight Bites: Diverse perspectives on economic degrowth and tourism

June 21, 2022

Tourism and economic degrowth. Is the only sustainable growth degrowth? Stencil wall by kamiel79 (CC0) and question mark overlay by kropekk_pl (CC0) both via Pixabay.

Tour­ism in the post-pan­­dem­ic ‘new nor­mal’ should be informed by eco­nom­ic degrowth, say some tour­ism aca­dem­ics and industry com­ment­at­ors who believe we can and should con­sume — and travel — less. If you are an aca­dem­ic or com­ment­at­or, how would you sum­mar­ise your views on degrowth for a gen­er­al industry audi­ence? If you are a travel & tour­ism practitioner, […]

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“GT” Insight Bites: Diverse perspectives on visitor dispersion

May 31, 2022

Visitor dispersion. Can it be managed? Or will visitors simply go where the winds blows, like dandelion seeds? Image by akirEVarga (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/dandelion-seeds-flower-nature-5302188/

An oft-cited anti­dote to over­tour­ism, and a means to spread the bene­fits of tour­ism more widely, is ‘vis­it­or dis­per­sion’. What are the biggest chal­lenges to encour­aging and incentiv­ising tour­ists to explore more of a des­tin­a­tion? Who or what do you think could con­trib­ute most to effect­ive vis­it­or dis­per­sion? What can an organ­isa­tion like yours do […]

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Good news in travel & tourism May 2022

May 28, 2022

Share "Good news in travel & tourism May 2022" as you would pizza. By Ivan Torres (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/MQUqbmszGGM

“Good news in travel & tour­ism” wraps up a month of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences. Share it as you would a pizza. It’s “GT”. And go!  (Click/touch a menu item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism” Insights Good news from friendsGlob­al | Africa | Asia Friends indeed “GT” Insights: Informed […]

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