Has ‘Future of Tourism’ failed host communities?

June 18, 2020
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Are host communities being ground down by the tourism industrial complex? Caption by "GT". Image by Andrius Petrucenia (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia. "GT" cropped it and applied a rouge filter. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mincer_(3075035).jpeg

The Future of Tour­ism Coali­tion is rather like a pub­lic rela­tions pyr­am­id scheme. The earli­er one signs up to it, the great­er the PR bene­fit. After every­one rushes in it will no longer be news­worthy. So if you’re going to sign up for it, do so after you read this hot take. Or wait until […]

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June 14, 2020

Just hanging around at Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre, Sabah, Malaysia. By Rob and Stephanie Levy (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. "GT" cropped it. https://www.flickr.com/photos/59773274@N00/2214312234

… 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 …”: Reopen­ings Mar­kets & mes­sages Eco­tour­ism & the great out­doors Avi­ation Odds & ends It’s “Good Tour­ism”. And go! Reopen­ings Jamaica will reopen its bor­ders to international […]

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… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  As the pre­dict­able plat­it­udes pop­u­lated news feeds on World Envir­on­ment Day, “GT” found real news from real places in the real world and stayed pos­it­ive … 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 […]

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… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism. And go! Import­ant “Good Tour­ism” (“GT”) stuff first:  How does a spe­cial forces sol­dier become a pro­ponent and awardee for sin­cerely respons­ible tour­ism? In a “GT” Insight […]

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… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism. And go! Import­ant “Good Tour­ism” (“GT”) stuff first:  For a truly sus­tain­able tour­ism industry to have a chance, des­tin­a­tions and host com­munit­ies must use the coronavir­us crisis […]

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Temples and the golden sun. Myanmar. By 12019 via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/myanmar-burma-landscape-sunrise-2494826/

… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism. And go! Import­ant “Good Tour­ism” (“GT”) stuff first:  In a fresh “GT” Insight pub­lished on Tues­day, respons­ible tour­ism and eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment spe­cial­ist Kev­in Phun took a peek […]

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