“Good Tourism” Destinations & Places

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Beyond sustainability: Regenerative hospitality helps restore Sri Lankan culture and heritage

August 7, 2025

"Good Tourism" guest author Dr Ashika Kalubadanage better appreciates her cultural heritage in Sri Lanka thanks to regenerative hospitality

Can cul­ture bundled into tour­ism products retain its ‘authen­t­ic’ cre­den­tials and deliv­er her­it­age value to host com­munit­ies and visitors? 

UK-based tour­ism edu­cat­or Ashi­ka Kalu­badan­age reck­ons so as she recon­nects with her own ances­tral her­it­age in Sri Lanka.

Thanks to “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner Tourism’s Hori­zon: Travel for the Mil­lions for invit­ing Dr Ashi­ka Kalu­badan­age to write this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. (You can too.)

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Detty December: The rise of diaspora tourism in Nigeria

July 31, 2025

The colourful Calabar Carnival, ‘Africa’s Biggest Street Party’, is where tradition and modernity can mingle and is part of Detty December, a diaspora tourism draw. Pic by Teemages, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Detty Decem­ber is peak sea­son for tour­ism in Niger­ia thanks to the arrival of hun­dreds of thou­sands of expat­ri­ate Nigeri­ans and tour­ists with Nigeri­an her­it­age. Dia­spora tour­ism is a boon to Nigeri­a’s eco­nomy and a life­line to many of its ter­tiary indus­tries, includ­ing tour­ism. But can it be sus­tained, extended?

Thanks to “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner Tourism’s Hori­zon: Travel for the Mil­lions for invit­ing Dr Shola Osinaike to write this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. (You too can write one.)

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How should travel & tourism respond to threats to free movement, thought?

May 8, 2025

How should travel & tourism respond to threats to free movement and free thought? Image is of a protest outside Trump building in Chicago in 2018. By Rob Walsh (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/people-gathers-in-the-street-near-trump-building-_KeC-qyKLPY

If the United States under Don­ald Trump threatens free­dom of move­ment and free­dom of thought — and the busi­nesses and live­li­hoods that facil­it­ate both — what should travel, tour­ism, and hos­pit­al­ity stake­hold­ers do? K Michael Hay­wood reck­ons industry and the academy should put aside long-stand­ing dif­fer­ences. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can share.] Demo­cra­cies in decline … Democracies […]

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St Helena got an airport: Where to now for one of Earth’s remotest places?

April 29, 2025

Commercial flights from St Helena Airport, the island's first and only airport, commenced late 2017. Photo by Craig Williams,

It’s not news, but it will be news to many. The remote island of St Helena and its tiny pop­u­la­tion got a USD 380 mil­lion air­port. That was shortly before the glob­al COVID shut­downs.  While St Helena Air­port (HLE) has yet to deliv­er on its tour­ism and eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment poten­tial, Mar­cella Mit­tens and many other […]

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Considering sustainable tourism certification? What to do first and what to look for

April 23, 2025

Considering sustainable tourism certification? What to do first and what to look for. Made with an image by Christophe from Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/validation-positive-logo-1614001/

Some­times the first step is the hard­est. This applies as much to the daunt­ing task of obtain­ing sus­tain­able tour­ism cer­ti­fic­a­tion as any­thing else; espe­cially for micro and small busi­nesses that can­not afford to throw resources at a new depart­ment or employ­ee to man­age it.  Kev­in Phun offers his advice in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too […]

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A force for good: What can global travel & tourism learn from social enterprises?

March 26, 2025
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A force for good: What can global travel & tourism learn from social enterprises? A Gemini-generated image.

Can the loc­al com­munity-based busi­ness mod­els of tour­ism social enter­prises be rep­lic­ated at glob­al scale? Anishka Narula-Nielsen thinks so. It’s her first “Good Tour­ism” Insight. (You too can write a “GT” Insight.) The search for ‘good tour­ism’ Tour­ism is one of the most power­ful forces in the world. It drives eco­nom­ies, cre­ates jobs, and intro­duces us to […]

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