“Good Tourism” in Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha

“Good Tour­ism” des­tin­a­tions and places in Saint Helena, Ascen­sion, and Tristan da Cunha, and the travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers in the remote South Atlantic islands that com­prise the Brit­ish Over­seas Ter­rit­ory who are keen to show­case their good, their bet­ter, and their best.

St Helena got an airport: Where to now for one of Earth’s remotest places?

April 29, 2025

Commercial flights from St Helena Airport, the island's first and only airport, commenced late 2017. Photo by Craig Williams,

It’s not news, but it will be news to many. The remote island of St Helena and its tiny pop­u­la­tion got a USD 380 mil­lion air­port. That was shortly before the glob­al COVID shut­downs.  While St Helena Air­port (HLE) has yet to deliv­er on its tour­ism and eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment poten­tial, Mar­cella Mit­tens and many other […]

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