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Two tourism democratisation challenges to consider as we plan for recovery

October 6, 2020

Two tourism democratisation challenges to consider as we plan for recovery

Sus­tain­able tour­ism con­sult­ant Tim O’Donoghue leads the col­lab­or­at­ive efforts of Teton County, Wyom­ing, USA to become a sus­tain­able des­tin­a­tion. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Mr O’Donoghue iden­ti­fies two core chal­lenges to achiev­ing com­munity con­sensus around tour­ism devel­op­ment plan­ning and des­tin­a­tion man­age­ment. Most com­munit­ies that are travel des­tin­a­tions have seen their tour­ism eco­nom­ies grow organ­ic­ally and […]

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Tourism in crisis: A Myanmar elephant camp & community pivot to plan B

and October 2, 2020

An elephant of Green Hill Valley Elephant Camp, Shan state, Myanmar. (Image by Hollis Burbank-Hammarlund). Inset: GHV's Founders Tin Win Maw (Left) and Htun Htun Wynn (Image courtesy of GHV).

Through the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and tour­ism crisis, hopes rest on con­tin­gency “plan B” to sus­tain the retired log­ging ele­phants of Green Hill Val­ley, Myan­mar and the com­munity of people who love them.  Hol­lis Bur­b­ank-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al knows them well, hav­ing led ele­phant health­care and wel­fare work­shops at the camp in 2018 and […]

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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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How to change an iconic travel & tourism experience … for good

June 24, 2020

From the roadside. Mount Sefton, Mt Cook National Park, New Zealand. Image by Bernard Spragg (CC0) via Picryl. https://picryl.com/media/mount-sefton-mt-cook-np-nz-68cc04

Mak­ing things bet­ter rarely neces­sit­ates tear­ing everything down and start­ing again. Josie Major of GOOD Travel (no rela­tion) describes how research and a little ima­gin­a­tion can turn a quint­es­sen­tial New Zea­l­and travel exper­i­ence — the road trip — into some­thing poten­tially much bet­ter for every­one. Thanks to “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner Second Look World­wide for invit­ing Josie to con­trib­ute this “GT” […]

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