Good news in tourism August 23 – 29, 2020

August 30, 2020

Indian leopard. By vaidyarupal (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. GT" cropped, brightened, and saturated it. https://www.flickr.com/photos/vaidyarupal/30327394012

Because tour­ism is a “won­der of the world”.  Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism … everyone’s busi­ness. This week’s travel & tour­ism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) COVID ops Tour­ism policy & gov­ernance  Net-zero travel […]

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Don’t panic: Opportunity, ingenuity will give us climate-friendly travel, tourism

August 29, 2020
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Don’t panic: Opportunity & ingenuity will give us climate-friendly travel & tourism

“Tour­ism is itself one of the won­ders of the world,” United Nations’ big boss António Guterres said as he extolled the vir­tues of our industry. That’s the good news.  How­ever, as the UN World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) warned that between 100 mil­lion and 120 mil­lion dir­ect tour­ism jobs are at risk right now, the UN secretary-general […]

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Good news in tourism August 9 – 15, 2020

August 16, 2020

Sunset over the Mekong, Luang Prabang, Laos. Image by David Gillbanks.

It’s all about YOU!  Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism …  everyone’s busi­ness. This week’s travel & tour­ism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) “GT” news Post-pan­­dem­ic plans & pos­i­tion­ing Travel & tour­ism & climate […]

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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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