Published Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a new work week in travel & tourism. And go! The World Economic Forum (WEF) describes itself as “a platform for the world’s 1,000 leading companies”. Mainstream media and politicians hang on to WEF’s every utterance, presumably because […]
Read More Good news in tourism March 8 – 14, 2020
Published Sunday to be ready on Monday, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a new work week. Let’s get stuck in … And go! Important “GT” stuff first: “GT” asked a sample of Tourism Declares Climate Change signatories what they meant by “system change” and “urgent regulatory action” and on Tuesday […]
Read More Good news in tourism March 1 – 7, 2020
Climate change is real. How do we respond? The first four points in the Tourism Declares Climate Emergency declaration are personal undertakings or organisational commitments to plan and to change and to share and to collaborate in relation to a signatory’s declaration of climate emergency. All power to them! However the fifth point in the declaration […]
Read More Signatories to Tourism Declares Climate Emergency on “system change”, “regulatory action”
After a week of rising fears and a big cancellation, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a new work week. And go! “GT” published a fresh “GT” Insight on Friday about a backpackers in a rural community at the edge of Hogsback, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It’s a small tourism […]
Read More Good news in tourism February 23 – 29, 2020
Joint statement from WHO & UNWTO: Madrid, Spain and Geneva, Switzerland, 26 February 2020 – As the current outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) continues to develop, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) are committed to working together in guiding the travel and tourism sectors’ response to COVID-19. On 30 January […]
Read More Joint statement on tourism & COVID-19: UNWTO, WHO call for responsibility, coordination
Happy “Good news in tourism day”! Posted on Sunday to be ready on Monday, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a work week. And go! Important “GT” stuff first: The climate-related carbon targets in the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) do not even come close to offering the best value […]
Read More Good news in tourism February 16 – 22, 2020