Infrastructure in focus for new “Good Tourism” Insight Partnership

December 9, 2019

Testing the new water pump at Kakoi village

Second Look World­wide is the latest “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner.  As a “GT” Insight Part­ner, Second Look World­wide will inspire deep­er, broad­er, and more impact­ful industry-wide con­ver­sa­tions around com­munity infra­struc­ture devel­op­ment in emer­ging and estab­lished des­tin­a­tions.  To that end, the not-for-profit will reg­u­larly identi­fy and invite an opin­ion or prac­tice lead­er work­ing in host community […]

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Good news in tourism December 1 – 7, 2019

December 8, 2019

Inuksuk Point (Inuksugalait, “where there are many Inuksuit“), Foxe Peninsula (Baffin Island), Nunavut, Canada. By Ansgar Walk - photo taken by Ansgar Walk (CC BY-SA 2.5) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=602815

Wel­come to The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s first sum­mary of and links to a week of good news and quirk­i­ness in the world of travel & tour­ism. Pub­lished on Sunday to be ready on Monday morn­ing, it’s the per­fect pos­it­ive start to a work­ing week in travel & tour­ism! Share it with your col­leagues. In no […]

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Culture & heritage focus for first “Good Tourism” Insight Partnership

November 21, 2019

Image by Anonymous Traveller from Pixabay

The World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture & Her­it­age (WTACH) is the first “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner. As a “GT” Insight Part­ner, WTACH will inspire deep­er industry-wide con­ver­sa­tions around cul­ture & her­it­age tour­ism.  WTACH will reg­u­larly identi­fy and invite an opin­ion or prac­tice lead­er work­ing in the area of cul­ture & her­it­age tour­ism to write a […]

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SUN, WTTC report strong on “existential climate crisis” & tourism’s response

October 2, 2019

cft ambitions report 2019 snip

The SUNx (“Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work”) Pro­gram has issued its first annu­al “Cli­mate Friendly Travel – Ambi­tion Report”.  Pre­pared on the side­lines of the Septem­ber UN Gen­er­al Assembly and in col­lab­or­a­tion with the World Travel & Tour­ism Coun­cil (WTTC) “to sup­port a Cli­mate Neut­ral Travel & Tour­ism Sec­tor by 2050”, the doc­u­ment was made avail­able to […]

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Thailand says “No” to ivory in two-tusked campaign funded by USAID

September 21, 2019

Cindy Bishop featured alongside Thai writing with the message "beautiful without ivory"

A two-pronged cam­paign to reduce domest­ic con­sumer and for­eign trav­el­ler demand for ivory and ivory products launched in Bangkok, Thai­l­and yes­ter­day.  While much of the focus of the launch event was on the domest­ic con­sumer cam­paign and the celebrity influ­en­cers who are the faces of it, of greatest rel­ev­ance to the tour­ism industry is the […]

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Elephants are smart. What if tourism jobs were good for them?

March 14, 2019
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A mahout feeding an elephant at the Elephant Nature Park, near Chiang Mai, Thailand. By Adbar (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mahout_Elephant_Nature_Park.JPG

Work, includ­ing offer­ing tour­ists rides, is “not bad” for ele­phants — in mod­er­a­tion — so long as it takes into account the work­load, stress, and wel­fare of each indi­vidu­al ele­phant, accord­ing to Dr Pakka­nut Ban­siddhi, Research­er, Cen­ter of Excel­lence in Ele­phant Research and Edu­ca­tion, Chi­ang Mai Uni­ver­sity. Dr Pakka­nut revealed this at the Glob­al Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Coun­cil con­fer­ence in […]

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