“Good Tourism” Destinations & Places

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The happiness factor: Social tourism is sustainable tourism

August 6, 2024

Social tourism, social good? Image by Guille Pozzi (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/silhouette-photo-of-woman-and-girl-on-shoreline-y1wVavuxZtE

Can ‘social tour­ism’ — char­ity- and/or tax­pay­er-sup­­por­ted hol­i­days — help alle­vi­ate stress in soci­ety and turn the travel & tour­ism industry’s off-sea­son frowns upside down?  Scott McCabe thinks so.  Pro­fess­or McCabe penned this “Good Tour­ism” Insight at the invit­a­tion of Tourism’s Hori­zon: Travel for the Mil­lions, a “GT” Insight Part­ner. Fam­ily hol­i­days: A fine time … Term-time hol­i­day fines were back in […]

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Beer o’clock ‘keeps the forest standing’ at Cardamom Tented Camp, Cambodia

July 17, 2024

Cardamom Tented Camp in Cambodia has launched its own conservation beer, Cardamom Mountains Steam Beer, with the tagline, “Your Beer Keeps the Forest Standing”.

Car­damom Ten­ted Camp in Cam­bod­ia has launched its own con­ser­va­tion beer with the tagline, “Your Beer Keeps the Forest Stand­ing”. Profits from the Car­damom Moun­tains Steam Beer, now avail­able at the eco­lodge, help fund the con­ser­va­tion work of 16 forest rangers who pro­tect 18,000 hec­tares (180 km²) of sur­round­ing low­land ever­green forest in the Botum […]

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Domestic disasters & destination ‘dupes’: Climate change impels travel closer to home

July 2, 2024
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Domestic disasters & destination ‘dupes’: Climate change impels travel closer to home. Worried about climate change and associated risks to property, American vacationers are growing reluctant to travel far from home. Image by WikiImages (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/hurricane-devastation-charley-63005/ "GT" added the text.

Wor­ried about cli­mate change and asso­ci­ated risks to prop­erty, Amer­ic­an vaca­tion­ers are grow­ing reluct­ant to travel far from home. It’s the third “GT” Insight by Herb Hiller. [You too can write a “Good Tour­ism” Insight.] Cli­mate change at home and away In this epoch of cli­mate change, a fam­ily on Grand Bahama depos­its a Nor­we­gi­an Cruise Line […]

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Conservation, climate, culture challenge food tourism in Botswana

June 25, 2024

Botswana's Okavango Delta is important to the country's food security as well as its food tourism potential. Aerial shot of the Okavango River, Shakawe, Botswana by Wynand Uys (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/aerial-photography-of-body-of-water-4ZCA3xukIso

Delly Cha­ti­bura sees a huge oppor­tun­ity for Bot­swana to lever­age its nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al resources for food secur­ity and good food tour­ism. But con­ser­va­tion, cli­mate, and cul­tur­al chal­lenges impede food tour­ism in Bot­swana. Food cul­tures are often integ­ral to tour­ism, with Bangkok’s street food, New York’s diners, tea in China, and French baguettes being four arbit­rary examples. But how many of the world’s tour­ists are famil­i­ar with Botswana’s rich food cul­ture, and the issues attend­ing it? 

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Inclusions: How a little place near Angkor became one of the world’s best hotels

and June 18, 2024

Jaya House River Park: How a little place near Angkor became one of the world’s best hotels

There’s a lot of good going on behind the leafy green exter­i­or of one of the world’s best hotels. And much of it is “rather easy”. Talk is cheap. Chris­ti­an de Boer is tired of the hypo­crisy that runs rampant in the travel & tour­ism industry, such as “the B Corps that can’t wait to give […]

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Community-based tourism for urban & rural development in sub-Saharan Africa

June 13, 2024

CABI Tourism Cases on community-based tourism development in sub-Saharan Africa

CABI Tour­ism Cases presents suc­cesses, poten­tials, and chal­lenges of com­munity-based tour­ism and hos­pit­al­ity for urb­an and rur­al devel­op­ment in sub-Saha­ran Africa. The tour­ism industry has become one of the key socio-eco­nom­ic sec­tors of sub-Saha­ran Africa. In the last few dec­ades, the tour­ism industry in most sub-Saha­ran Afric­an coun­tries has sur­passed most oth­er eco­nom­ic sec­tors in terms of gen­er­at­ing busi­ness oppor­tun­it­ies, for­eign exchange earn­ings, and employ­ment prospects. 

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