World Bank to target support for PNG community-based tourism

October 15, 2017

1024px Bainingsfiredancer

The World Bank’s upcom­ing US$20 mil­lion Tour­ism Sec­tor Devel­op­ment Pro­ject in Pap­ua New Guinea (PNG) will include “tar­geted sup­port for com­munity-led micro-enter­­­prises to cre­ate jobs, espe­cially for women”. The pro­ject will work with PNG gov­ern­ment and industry play­ers on an “integ­rated approach to tour­ism” in the provinces of East New Bri­tain and Mil­ne Bay and will […]

Read More World Bank to target support for PNG community-based tourism
Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Oceania, Downloads
Tags: ,

Civita di Bagnoregio, the tourism town on the edge of extinction

October 9, 2017

Tourism town on the edge of survival Civita di Bagnoregio. By evondue via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/en/civita-di-bagnoregio-latium-2286541/

Since becom­ing the first Itali­an town to charge an entry fee, tour­ist num­bers to Civ­ita di Bagnore­gio have exploded from 40,000 annu­ally four years ago to a fore­cast 850,000 this year. In 2017, the hill-top ham­let will “wel­come” vis­it­ors at a ratio of 85,000 to one full-time res­id­ent. Sign­posted as “Civ­ita, The Town That Is […]

Read More Civita di Bagnoregio, the tourism town on the edge of extinction
Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Europe
Tags: , ,

Nigeria tourism’s squandered opportunities

October 9, 2017
One Comment

Nigeria tourism perhaps shoud be red-faced like this rainbow agama

In an op-ed for This Day, Kunle Aderinok­un (Asso­ci­ate Edit­or) and Demola Ojo (Edit­or and travel writer) write about the reas­ons tour­ism in the world’s sev­enth most pop­u­lous nation could be, should be an eco­nom­ic gold­mine. While the excerpt below focuses on Niger­ia tour­ism, the writers also dis­cuss squandered oppor­tun­it­ies in agri­cul­ture, oil, min­ing, and […]

Read More Nigeria tourism’s squandered opportunities
Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Africa
Tags:

Thailand to help neighbours with community-based tourism

October 6, 2017

Thailand to offer CBT help to Laos, Cambodia, Bhutan leveraging examples such as Ban Rai Kong Khing

Thail­and’s Des­ig­nated Areas for Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Admin­is­tra­tion (DASTA) has agreed to help devel­op com­munity-based tour­ism (CBT) in Laos, Cam­bod­ia, and, pos­sibly, Bhutan. Accord­ing to the Bangkok Post, “this will be the first time the three coun­tries are work­ing closely with Thai­l­and spe­cific­ally on CBT devel­op­ment, after join­ing forces on cross-bor­der tour­ism, logist­ics and con­nectiv­ity, and […]

Read More Thailand to help neighbours with community-based tourism
Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Asia
Tags: ,

#TravelEnjoyRespect video: “Beyond the great horizon”

October 3, 2017

#TravelEnjoyRespect video "Beyond the great horizon"

The Nation­al Academy of Arts, Cul­ture and Her­it­age (ASWARA), Malay­sia has released a video pro­mot­ing #TravelEn­joyRe­spect to help con­vey the mes­sage of how tour­ism can con­trib­ute to the 2030 Agenda for Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment and the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (SDGs). The 3.5‑minute music video (embed­ded below) was the concept of Pacific Asia Tour­ism Man­aging Dir­ect­or Steve […]

Read More #TravelEnjoyRespect video: “Beyond the great horizon”
Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Asia, "GT" news from Oceania
Tags: ,

Australian shark tourism valuation method may be useful elsewhere

September 22, 2017

The economic value of shark tourism including white shark cage-diving in Australia

A socio-eco­­nom­ic sur­vey meth­od­o­logy that recently estim­ated the dir­ect eco­nom­ic con­tri­bu­tion of shark tour­ism in Aus­tralia may be a use­ful tool for estim­at­ing the value of wild­life tour­ism and eco­tour­ism in oth­er des­tin­a­tions. For des­tin­a­tions keen to under­stand more about the eco­nom­ic value of their own eco­tour­ism and wild­life tour­ism products, the meth­od­o­logy employed by […]

Read More Australian shark tourism valuation method may be useful elsewhere
Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Oceania
Tags: , ,