It’s not ‘no’. It’s ‘know’. A travel tip for good tourists and responsible travellers

January 9, 2020
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It's not 'no'. It's 'know.' A "Good Tourism" travel tip; travel advice for good tourists & responsible travellers.

How can one be a good tour­ist and a respons­ible trav­el­ler?  An easy-to-remem­ber rhyme might help; one that acknow­ledges that there is always more to know and there­fore nev­er gets old.  What do you think about this as a catch-all travel tip or philo­sophy for trav­el­lers? Update, June 2021: If you clicked over from The “GT” […]

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Good news in tourism Dec 28, 2019 to Jan 4, 2020

January 5, 2020

Featured image: West Indian manatee resting at Three Sisters Springs, Crystal River, Florida, USA. A school of mangrove snapper enjoy the shade. By Keith Ramos and the US Fish & Wildlife Service (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwshq/7636814558

Wel­come to 2020 and Earth’s most fun sum­mary of a week of good news in travel & tour­ism. Pub­lished on Sunday to be ready on Monday, it’s the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a work­ing week (and year); a remind­er that the tour­ism industry, tour­ism people, and trav­el­lers can be so very good!  In no […]

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Good news in tourism December 21 – 27, 2019

December 28, 2019

Inside Nasir ol Molk Mosque, Shiraz City, Iran by MohammadReza Domiri Ganji (CC BY-SA 4.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43707688

Wel­come to The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s hip sum­mary of a week of good news in the world of travel & tour­ism. Pub­lished on Sat­urday to be ready on Monday, it’s the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a work­ing week — or week off. You can love it with a latte. You can attend to it with […]

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Good news in tourism December 15 – 20, 2019

December 21, 2019

Harbour Air electric seaplane, a six-passenger DHC-2 de Havilland Beaver magnified by a 750-horsepower (560 kW) magni500 propulsion system, takes its first flight

Wel­come to The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s sum­mary of six days of good news in the world of travel & tour­ism. Pub­lished on Sat­urday this time — because “GT” is trav­el­ling on Sunday — to be ready on Monday, it’s the per­fect start to a work­ing week — or week off if that’s what you are doing. Whatever your cir­cum­stances, share the joy! […]

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Good news in tourism December 8 – 14, 2019

December 15, 2019
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Bow Fiddle Rock, Portknockie, Moray, Scotland. By Markus Trienke (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Wikimedia. "GT" cropped it. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74415331

Wel­come to The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s almost fam­ous sum­mary of a week of good news and quirk­i­ness — from vil­lages to nations — in the world of travel & tour­ism. Pub­lished on Sunday to be ready on Monday, it’s the per­fect pos­it­ively-spun start to a work­ing week wherever you are! Share it with your col­leagues. In no par­tic­u­lar order:  Be […]

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Climate change focus for “GT” Insight Partnership


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SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work is the latest “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner. As a “GT” Insight Part­ner, SUNx will inspire industry-wide con­ver­sa­tions and debate around tour­ism and cli­mate change.  As with all “GT” Insight Part­ners, SUNx will reg­u­larly identi­fy and invite an opin­ion or prac­tice lead­er work­ing in the area of cli­mate change & tour­ism to write […]

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