Thailand Tourism Minister Weerasak props up GSTC conference opening

February 28, 2019

Thailand Tourism Minister Weerasak Kowsurat

HE Weer­a­sak Kowsur­at, Thail­and’s Min­is­ter of Tour­ism and Sport brought props to his open­ing speech for the 2019 Glob­al Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Coun­cil (GSTC) Asia-Pacific Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Con­fer­ence today in Chi­ang Mai. Des­pite micro­phone issues break­ing his flow, Mr Weer­a­sak used the props to make his point. He brought to the podi­um a bag made from fishing […]

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“Good Tourism” supports the second World Heritage mini-conference

February 25, 2019

Lamington blue spiny crayfish encountered on the Coomera circuit walking track in the Binna Burra section Lamington National Park in Queensland, Australia. Photo by Tatters (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr. "GT" cropped and enhanced the image. https://www.flickr.com/photos/tgerus/12250342224/in/photostream/

UPDATE (May 16, 2019). The organ­isers have decided to post­pone the planned two-day mini-con­­fer­­ence at Binna Burra Lodge in Octo­ber 2019 and make it a three-day event in 2020 — from Tues­day, Octo­ber 13 to Thursday, Octo­ber 15. The first World Her­­it­age-themed mini-con­­fer­­ence took place over three days at the Binna Burra Lodge in Octo­ber 2018.  The top­ic was ‘Man­aging the growth of […]

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Vale Ian Oelrichs, “strategic thinker & visionary”

February 25, 2019
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Endemic tourism concept co-creator, Ian Oelrichs, passed away Feb 24, 2019

Co-cre­at­or of the concept of “endem­ic tour­ism”, Ian Oel­richs OAM passed away Feb­ru­ary 24, 2019.  A land­scape archi­tect and urb­an design­er by trade, Mr Oel­richs had more than 40 years of exper­i­ence in devel­op­ment, nat­ur­al resource man­age­ment, and tour­ism. (Linked­In.) In 2011 Mr Oel­richs received the Medal of the Order of Aus­tralia (OAM) hon­our for his […]

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UK Aid encourages inclusive tourism in Myanmar

June 20, 2018

Inclusive tourism in Myanmar

The UK Aid-fun­­ded Busi­ness Innov­a­tion Facil­ity (BIF) pro­ject has released a high-qual­ity video about inclus­ive tour­ism in Myan­mar. The pro­ject has been work­ing with Myan­mar’s private sec­tor to intro­duce and encour­age take-up of the concept of inclus­ive tour­ism. For the past four years long time Asia Pacific sus­tain­able tour­ism advoc­ate, Steve Noakes, has been senior […]

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The “Good Tourism” Podcast #2: How to be a plastic-free hotel in 15 minutes

and November 15, 2017

plastic-free hotel

As co-founder of the not-for-profit Refill NOT Land­fill in Cam­bod­ia, Chris­ti­an de Boer claims a hotel can oblit­er­ate its reli­ance on plastic water bottles in about 15 minutes.  All it takes is will­power, a sig­na­ture, and a will­ing­ness to absorb or pass on about a dol­lar a day per guest. With more than a dec­ade’s worth […]

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The “Good Tourism” Podcast #1: Geoffrey Lipman & the existential threat

and October 27, 2017

Geoffrey Lipman

Pro­fess­or Geof­frey Lip­man joined Dav­id Gill­banks on Skype, Thursday, to record the first epis­ode of The “Good Tour­ism” Pod­cast. About pod­casts & how to sub­scribe to The “Good Tour­ism” Pod­cast  [UPDATE Novem­ber 8, 2017: The Inter­na­tion­al Insti­tute for Peace through Tour­ism has chosen five people from the world of travel & tour­ism to hon­our as “Glob­al Ambassadors […]

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