“Good Tourism” in Indonesia

“Good Tour­ism” des­tin­a­tions and places in Indone­sia, and the travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers in the South­east Asi­an archipelago who are keen to show­case their good, their bet­ter, and their best.

From reef rubble to recovery: How Livingseas Asia is leading tourism in Bali


From reef rubble to recovery: How Livingseas Asia is leading tourism in Bali

Tour­ism built Bali’s repu­ta­tion but nearly broke its reefs. Now, the same industry is becom­ing a force for recovery.

Led by Liv­ing­seas Asia, a pion­eer­ing dive oper­at­or in Padang­bai, a grow­ing num­ber of vis­it­ors are return­ing not to take, but to give back. They are reviv­ing cor­al eco­sys­tems one dive at a time.

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Can the tide of ocean plastic be stopped? The No-Trash Triangle Initiative thinks so


Can the tide of ocean plastic be stopped? The No-Trash Triangle Initiative thinks so. Photo by Ezra Kaunang for NTTI

Per­haps 80% of the plastic in our oceans gets there via rivers. In Man­ado, Indone­sia the grass­roots No-Trash River pro­ject uses simple bar­ri­ers to catch plastic waste, pre­vent­ing it from reach­ing the Bunaken Mar­ine Park and spoil­ing its dive tour­ism hotspots.

Learn more from Anna Cler­ici, co-founder of the No-Trash Tri­angle Ini­ti­at­ive which is an EXO Found­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Award winner.

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As Bali runs dry, can tourism help replenish its water?


In Bali, water is essential to culture as well as life. As Bali runs dry, can tourism help replenish its water?

The travel & tour­ism industry can be expec­ted to hon­our the human right to water, par­tic­u­larly in com­munit­ies and des­tin­a­tions in which it operates. 

Industry stake­hold­ers need not see this as a bur­den, but rather as a com­pel­ling oppor­tun­ity to mean­ing­fully engage with loc­al people on secur­ing tra­di­tion­al water sup­plies, all the while devel­op­ing more sus­tain­able water and waste man­age­ment sys­tems of their own.

Nic­olaus Sulistyo sheds light on IDEP Found­a­tion’s Bali Water Pro­tec­tion (BWP) ini­ti­at­ive; an EXO Found­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Award winner.

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Bali is back, and so is the rest of wild Indonesia


Orangutans, Kalimantan, Indonesia

Since the long-awaited — but then very sud­den — eas­ing of travel restric­tions for travel into Indone­sia last March, Bali has seen a very quick return of trav­el­lers.  Along Bali’s south­w­est coast one will once again find the typ­ic­al beach- and Bintang-attrac­ted vis­it­or.  Beach­front hotels and beach clubs are exper­i­en­cing a book­ings rush from both domest­ic and for­eign travellers […]

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