“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 tourism & fishing help to save Irrawaddy dolphins in Myanmar

January 21, 2020

Fisherman standing in canoe holding net, waiting for the right time to cast it. Burma, Myanmar, Mandalay Division, Irrawaddy, Ayeyarwady river, fishing with dolphins.

The Liv­ing Irrawaddy Dol­phin Pro­ject (LIDP) is a social busi­ness sup­port­ing the pro­tec­tion of Irrawaddy dol­phins in Myanmar’s Aye­yar­wady Dol­phin Pro­tec­ted Area. LIDP is devel­op­ing a mod­el for dol­phin con­ser­va­tion through com­munity-based eco­tour­ism. Co-founder Paul Eshoo wrote this great “Good Tour­ism” Insight. UPDATE, June 2021: Giv­en the polit­ic­al situ­ation in Myan­mar and COVID-19 “GT” was […]

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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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