“Good Tourism” Destinations & Places

“GT” Des­tin­a­tions & Places is all about con­fid­ent des­tin­a­tions, their spe­cial places, and the travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers there who are keen to show­case their good, their bet­ter, and their best.

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How bees, trees, & tourism reduce human-wildlife conflict in Uganda

January 7, 2020

Looking relaxed. Chimp, Kibale, Uganda by Rod Waddington (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/rod_waddington/23355595510/

James Nadi­ope estab­lished the Africa Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Care Found­a­tion to address the prob­lem of human-wild­life con­flicts tak­ing place around Kibale Nation­al Park in west­ern Uganda. AST­CF’s first pro­ject was at Kahangi vil­lage, where com­munity con­sulta­tion led to the emer­gence of both tra­di­tion­al and mod­ern solu­tions to old prob­lems. One of those solu­tions was, of course, […]

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How running water changes lives: Tourism takes a second look in Tanzania

December 9, 2019

Fresh water runs from a newly-installed tap into the cupped hands of a Tanzanian man

Tan­ner C Knorr, Pres­id­ent of “GT” Insight Part­ner Second Look World­wide, takes us to Kakoi vil­lage in Tan­zania — the first bene­fi­ciary of a prag­mat­ic approach to sup­port­ing com­munit­ies that are dir­ectly affected by, or live adja­cent to, tour­ism activ­ity.  When trav­el­ling to devel­op­ing coun­tries, noti­cing dis­crep­an­cies between the areas of tour­ism and those imme­di­ately out­side is […]

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How tourism in India can help protect olive ridley turtles

June 5, 2019
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Olive ridley turtles by Chandan Singh (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorius/137320371/

In her second “GT” Insights con­tri­bu­tion, A Lajwanti Naidu shares what she has learned about olive rid­ley turtles and how the Andhra Pra­desh Tour­ism Author­ity does and can con­trib­ute to their con­ser­va­tion. Travel teaches more than books do. With this in mind, Andhra Pra­desh Tour­ism Author­ity organ­ised an edu­ca­tion­al tour to Diviseema and the Krishna […]

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Piling up: India tourism’s growing waste management problem

June 3, 2019
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India's beautiful iconic Taj Mahal and a pile of waste. Combines right-free images by Roney John (Taj Mahal) via Pexels and MrsBrown (the waste) via Pixabay.

Sus­tain­able tour­ism lead­er Tejas Joseph sum­mar­ises the waste man­age­ment chal­lenges facing India and its travel, tour­ism, and hos­pit­al­ity sec­tors, and recom­mends the first step towards tak­ing respons­ib­il­ity for it. Travel & tour­ism accoun­ted for 9.2% of India’s GDP in 2018 and facil­it­ated 8.1% of employ­ment. Fur­ther, the travel & tour­ism industry in India is slated to […]

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Panic! The effect of travel advisories on tourism after terrorism

May 31, 2019
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Travel warning advisory notice: By Gerd Altmann via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/travel-warning-shield-stamp-2521727/

Sri Lanka-based villa agent Jack Eden calls for the travel & tour­ism industry to work pro­act­ively to dampen the dev­ast­at­ing effects of travel advisor­ies that exacer­bate the human and eco­nom­ic dam­age of ter­ror­ism. I wish to share my views — and listen to those of my peers — in rela­tion to what role travel advisor­ies play in the fight […]

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What’s Goa-ing on? The past, present and future of tourism in Goa

April 8, 2019
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Goa beach scene, March 2013. By Saad Faruque (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Wikimedia. GT" cropped and enhanced it. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_Beach,_Goa_India,_March_2013.jpg

Justine Cal­ais of the Respons­ible Tour­ism Col­lect­ive of Goa shares her “GT” Insight into what’s really going on with tour­ism in Indi­a’s Sun­shine State. Goa is a unique place. It is fair to say that it has everything going for it that a tour­ism des­tin­a­tion could ever wish to have — but at the same time it has […]

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