Good news in tourism May 3 – 9, 2020

May 10, 2020

Greens Pool, William Bay National Park, Shire of Denmark, Western Australia. Image by BaroBert (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia. "GT" cropped it. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greens_Pool,_William_Bay,_Denmark_WA.jpg

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 “GT” stuff first:  The expres­sion “an ele­phant in the room” means an uncom­fort­able truth we can­not ignore. With tour­ism cash flows stemmed, many Asi­an ele­phants and their mahouts in […]

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Good news in tourism Apr 26 to May 2, 2020

May 3, 2020

Reeth, Yorkshire, England. By Emphyrio (CC0) via Pixabay.

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! Your cor­res­pond­ent had a scare Monday night when news came through that his hero, his fath­er, had been rushed to hos­pit­al in Perth with a cab­in­et of nasty symptoms. […]

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Good news in tourism April 19 – 25, 2020

April 26, 2020

Life's a beach. By Kevin Phillips (CC0) via publicdomainpictures. https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=147290&picture=tropical-beach

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! “GT” stuff first: Rachel Sher­wood, a travel blog­ger from Oxford­shire in Eng­land, is organ­ising well-deserved hol­i­days for health­care work­ers at the front lines of the coronavir­us COVID-19 fight. Oper­a­tion Recuperation […]

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Good news in tourism April 12 – 18, 2020

April 19, 2020

Recently taken in by the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation (GTAEF) because she and her mahout are unemployed, Boon Rod is among the many elephants affected by the coronavirus-induced tourism crisis. Image source GTAEF. https://www.helpingelephants.org/boonrod/

Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the almost-fam­ous pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism. “This “Good news” stuff is sooo cool … bet­ter than their early stuff. It’s only a mat­ter of time before “Good Tour­ism” goes main­stream, though …” “Bro! Relaaaaax … “GT” […]

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Good news in tourism April 5 – 11, 2020

April 12, 2020

Lake Wakatipu, near Queenstown New Zealand. By Rex Boggs (CC BY-ND 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/rexboggs5/29407295502

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! Ser­i­ously. Are host com­munit­ies the vac­cine against over­tour­ism? If they are indeed taken ser­i­ously by poli­cy­makers then host com­munit­ies must surely offer pro­tec­tion against over­tour­ism and its asso­ci­ated ills. […]

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Good news in tourism Mar 29 to Apr 4, 2020

April 5, 2020

Downtown Seattle, Washington state, USA at sunset. By Tiffany Von Arnim (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/tiffany98101/15623134190

With insights rep­res­ent­ing the small, the medi­um, and the large; the private, the pub­lic, and the PPP; those who care about profit and those who are not-for-profit; received wis­dom and het­ero­dox views; The “Good Tour­ism” Blog is a truly inclus­ive plat­form for the travel & tour­ism industry as it grapples with respons­ib­il­it­ies, dreams of sustainability, […]

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