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In Gaborone, Botswana, the food scene is transforming, blending indigenous ingredients with modern gastronomy.
As Gaborone reimagines traditional Setswana flavours for the tourist palate, Delly Chatibura and Brighton Hurombo ask: Can culinary innovation co-exist with the communal spirit of the past?
Read More Gastronomic Gaborone: Can culinary innovation co-exist with authenticity?
Global tourism’s centre of gravity has shifted to Asia. But how do Asian destinations maintain their spectacular growth amidst natural disasters, pandemics, and geopolitical instability?
Dr David Beirman and Dr Jeff Wilks reveal the strategies behind the region’s resilience in their upcoming book, ‘Risk and Tourism Marketing in Asia’. And Bernie Rosenbloom shares key findings from his chapter on Laos.
Read More Behind Asian tourism’s success story: Risk and marketing
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.
Read More From reef rubble to recovery: How Livingseas Asia is leading tourism in Bali
In what ways might supernatural folktales — and their animist characteristics — influence residents’ and tourists’ perceptions of and behaviours within landscapes?
Vivian Sakko investigated this question on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, for an award-winning master’s thesis about folklore tourism …
Read More Re-awakening: How can vibrant tales connect us all through folklore tourism?
Cardamom Tented Camp in Cambodia is among the world’s most responsible tourism projects according to the International Centre for Responsible Tourism.
The ecolodge was acclaimed among 30 finalists at ICRT’s 2025 Global Responsible Tourism Awards in London, November 3.
Read More Cardamom Tented Camp among the world’s most responsible tourism projects: ICRT
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.
Read More Can the tide of ocean plastic be stopped? The No-Trash Triangle Initiative thinks so