Five key challenges for the travel & tourism industry: PATA Chair

August 27, 2024
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Five key challenges for the travel & tourism industry: PATA Chair Peter Semone who was joined by PATA CEO Noor Ahmad Hamid at the media briefing at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand on the eve of PATA Travel Mart 2024, August 27

Pacific Asia Travel Asso­ci­ation (PATA) Chair Peter Semone iden­ti­fied five key chal­lenges for the travel & tour­ism industry dur­ing a media brief­ing on the eve of PATA Travel Mart 2024: Crises of all sorts “There will be more crises,’ Mr Semone said. “Health crises, nat­ur­al dis­asters, and polit­ic­al unrest. They all affect tour­ism.  “Remem­ber, tour­ism is […]

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How are emerging technologies transforming the travel & tourism industry?

August 8, 2024

How are emerging technologies transforming the travel & tourism industry? Image generated by AI

How are emer­ging tech­no­lo­gies trans­form­ing the travel & tour­ism industry? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites ques­tion. Your cor­res­pond­ent put the ques­tion to the travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers in the “GT” net­work, invit­ing responses of no more than 300 words. (You too can join the “GT” net­work. Register.) Thanks to the four respond­ents — pro­fess­ors, pro­fes­sion­als, prac­ti­tion­ers — who took the time to share their […]

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Good news in travel & tourism April-June 2024

June 27, 2024

Share 'Good news in travel & tourism April-June 2024' as you would share a meal in Seoul, South Korea. Image by Markus Winkler (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/person-cooking-at-table-1gkvpUCQkmA

This ‘Good news in travel & tour­ism’ wraps up three months of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences: April, May, and June 2024. Share ‘Good news’ as you would a meal in Seoul, South Korea … It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch an item on the shar­ing menu to go straight to it. And don’t for­get to share.) “Good Tourism” […]

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Inclusions: How a little place near Angkor became one of the world’s best hotels


Jaya House River Park: How a little place near Angkor became one of the world’s best hotels

There’s a lot of good going on behind the leafy green exter­i­or of one of the world’s best hotels. And much of it is “rather easy”. Talk is cheap. Chris­ti­an de Boer is tired of the hypo­crisy that runs rampant in the travel & tour­ism industry, such as “the B Corps that can’t wait to give […]

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What does it mean to be critical of tourism?

June 4, 2024

What does it mean to be critical of tourism? Airport image by Jan Vašek (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/airport-woman-flight-boarding-2373727/ Pointing fingers by Gordon Johnson (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/vectors/pointing-fingers-arms-frame-border-6028818/

Some “GT” read­ers are crit­ic­al of tour­ism, par­tic­u­larly ‘mass tour­ism’. Some in the uni­ver­sit­ies see them­selves as part of a ‘Crit­ic­al Tour­ism Stud­ies’ move­ment. But what does it mean to be ‘crit­ic­al’ in rela­tion to mod­ern tour­ism?  It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites ques­tion. Your cor­res­pond­ent put the ques­tion to the travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers in the “GT” […]

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“GT” Insight Bites: What constitutes ‘progress’ for travel & tourism in 2024?

April 2, 2024

What constitutes ‘progress’ for the travel & tourism industry where you work, or that you have identified through your observations, study, or research? Footprint photo by Jeremy Bishop (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-sand-with-heart-shaped-stones--mMEEkgj5fU

In 2024, what con­sti­tutes ‘pro­gress’ for the travel & tour­ism industry where you work, or that you have iden­ti­fied through your obser­va­tions, study, or research? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites ques­tion. Your cor­res­pond­ent put the ques­tion to the travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers in the “GT” net­work, invit­ing responses of no more than 300 words.  Thanks to the 18 […]

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