“Good Tourism” Destinations & Places in Asia

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Anurak Lodge in Thailand wins PATA Grand Award for sustainability

September 28, 2020

Anurak Community Lodge staff

Anurak Com­munity Lodge’s green cre­den­tials secure the ‘best of the best’ award for oper­at­or YAANA Ven­tures. YAANA Ven­tures, the oper­at­or of Anurak Com­munity Lodge at Khao Sok Nation­al Park in south­ern Thai­l­and, has been awar­ded the 2020 Pacific Asia Travel Asso­ci­ation (PATA) Grand Award in the Sus­tain­ab­il­ity cat­egory. The win­ners were announced dur­ing the online PATA Gold […]

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Tourism in crisis: How local staff supported their communities in Myanmar

September 24, 2020
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Ku Mel project team image featured in "Tourism in crisis: How our local staff supported their communities in Myanmar"

In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Nia Klatte of Khiri Reach, the char­it­able arm of “GT” Part­ner Khiri Travel, shares how her organ­isa­tion’s Myan­­mar-based teams stepped up to sup­port host com­munit­ies dur­ing the COV­­ID-related travel & tour­ism clos­ures. This pan­dem­ic has shown us again how big our respons­ib­il­ity is for the people with whom we work; […]

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Keeping elephants healthy under the cloud of COVID-19

and June 27, 2020

Dr Wachiraporn Toonrongchang and team at at a private camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Image supplied by Dr Nissa Mututanont of the GTAEF Foundation.

News from the field — from the Ele­phant Health­care Emer­gency Life­line Fund in Chi­ang Mai, Thai­l­and — by Hol­lis Bur­b­ank-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al. What’s the say­ing? An ounce of pre­ven­tion is worth a pound of cure? For Thailand’s tour­ism ele­phants con­fined to lock-down mode — along with the facil­it­ies and people who care for them — the need for routine and […]

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Online courses by The Centre for Responsible Tourism Singapore: ‘Reinventing tourism learning’

June 4, 2020
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Centre for Responsible Tourism Singapore logo and two images

“GT” Friend Kev­in Phun of new “GT” Part­ner The Centre for Respons­ible Tour­ism Singa­pore (CRTS) has developed a series of short online courses for aspir­ing respons­ible tour­ism prac­ti­tion­ers — or any­one inter­ested in the sub­ject — to estab­lish a found­a­tion of know­ledge and a frame­work for think­ing about vari­ous aspects of respons­ible tour­ism.  “GT” 20% dis­count coupon: GTB-20-OFF Courses […]

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How can tourism safeguard intangible cultural heritage? A peek at Penghu

May 12, 2020
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Penghu fish traps. The iconic double love heart formation. By chingtao0007 (CC0) via Needpix. https://www.needpix.com/photo/1171932/penghu-beach-love-free-pictures-free-photos-free-images-royalty-free-free-illustrations

In this fresh “GT” Insight, respons­ible tour­ism and eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment spe­cial­ist Kev­in Phun takes a peek at the pis­cat­ori­al pro­fi­cien­cies of the people of Penghu, Taiwan to dis­cuss how the tan­gible and intan­gible should be con­sidered inter­con­nec­ted when plan­ning sus­tain­able cul­tur­al her­it­age tour­ism attrac­tions. Intan­gible cul­tur­al her­it­age (ICH) refers to aspects of peoples’ cul­tures that […]

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How a community-based tourism & homestay network empowers women in Nepal

February 4, 2020

Women who manage the Panauti Community Homestay with some members of the CHN team

Tour­ism impact and sus­tain­ab­il­ity expert Aady­aa Pandey dis­cusses a few of the chal­lenges over­come by Nepal’s Com­munity Homestay Net­work (CHN). And she cel­eb­rates its pos­it­ive impacts. Thanks to “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner Second Look World­wide for invit­ing Aady­aa to con­trib­ute this inspir­ing “GT” Insight about a social enter­prise that arose from a mod­est yet wildly […]

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