Good news in tourism August 2 – 8, 2020

August 9, 2020

Magpie goose taking flight in the Northern Territory, Australia. By Djambalawa (CC BY 3.0) via Wikipedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3948199

… because too much bad tour­ism news is bad for your men­tal health! Prob­ably. Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism.  This week’s travel & tour­ism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) “GT” news (feat. […]

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Regenerative tourism vs sustainable tourism: What’s the difference?

and August 4, 2020
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An unfurling silver fern frond, New Zealand. By Jon Radoff (CC BY 2.5) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1380624 The koru (Māori for '"loop or coil"') symbolises "new life, growth, strength and peace"; "conveys the idea of perpetual movement" while the inner coil "suggests returning to the point of origin".

For this “GT” Insight, Susanne Beck­en and Dav­id Gill­banks cor­res­pond to explore some of the sim­il­ar­it­ies and dif­fer­ences between the new buzz phrase “regen­er­at­ive tour­ism” and the old buzz term “sus­tain­able tour­ism”. DG: In a recent piece for News­room you wrote: “The very basic under­pin­ning of regen­er­at­ive tour­ism is that it is under­stood to occur […]

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Good news in tourism Jul 26 to Aug 1, 2020

August 2, 2020

Petals within petals. Image by David Gillbanks (CC BY 4.0).

… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism.  This week in “Good news …”: Policy & gov­ernance Stayc­a­tions, hyper­loc­al tour­ism, & domest­ic tour­ism Nature-based tour­ism & eco­tour­ism Art, cul­ture, & her­it­age Friends indeed Odds & ends It’s “Good Tourism”. […]

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Good news in tourism July 19 – 25, 2020

July 26, 2020

Flora and fauna of Andros, The Bahamas. By Matt MacGillivray (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/qmnonic/6869086127/

… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism.  This week in “Good news …”: Des­tin­a­tion devel­op­ment & invest­ment Tour­ism recov­ery Com­munity-led tour­ism  Cul­tur­al her­it­age tour­ism Wild­life tour­ism Get­ting around green Friends indeed Odds & ends It’s “Good Tour­ism”. And go! […]

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Good news in tourism July 12 – 18, 2020

July 19, 2020

“Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud ... There cannot be a lotus flower without the mud.” _ Thich Nhat Hanh. Image by David Gillbanks (CC BY 4.0).

… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism.  This week in “Good news …”: COVID ops Policy & gov­ernance Eco‑, nature-based, & wild­life tour­ism Cul­tur­al her­it­age Car­­bon-neut­ral super­son­ic flight Friends indeed Odds & ends It’s “Good Tour­ism”. And go! Important […]

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Good news in tourism July 5 – 11, 2020

July 12, 2020

By NASA; edited by Jaybear - Voyager: Humanity’s Farthest Journey, Public Domain (CC0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28797722

… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism.  This week in “Good news …”: COVID ops Region­al co-ops Decar­bon­ising trans­port Cul­tur­al her­it­age tour­ism Eco- & nature-based tour­ism Friends indeed Odds & ends It’s “Good Tour­ism”. And go! Import­ant “GT” news first: […]

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