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“Good Tour­ism” posts that include a link to down­load some­thing, such as a report or ref­er­ence resource related to sus­tain­able tour­ism and/or respons­ible tour­ism; usu­ally in PDF format.

Pacific ecotourism hampered by economic realities?

June 28, 2017
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Most Pacific eco­tour­ism pro­jects are short term because they are driv­en by purely con­ser­va­tion con­cerns while neg­lect­ing prof­it­ab­il­ity. Pacific-region eco­tour­ism pro­grams are frag­men­ted, mak­ing it dif­fi­cult to get a clear pic­ture of pro­gress. And there is a lack of fund­ing and pro­mo­tion of eco­tour­ism in the region. Accord­ing to a South Pacific Tour­ism Organ­isa­tion (SPTO) […]

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Was it time to act on measuring sustainable tourism a decade ago?

June 24, 2017

Opening of the 6th International Conference on Tourism Statistics: Measuring Sustainable Tourism

A high-level mul­ti­lat­er­al con­fer­ence under the aus­pices of the World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) has pro­duced a declar­a­tion recog­nising the need to do some­thing about meas­ur­ing sus­tain­able tour­ism (MST); determ­in­ing tourism’s true con­tri­bu­tion to the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (SDGs). The “Manila Call for Action on Meas­ur­ing Sus­tain­able Tour­ism” says tour­ism min­is­ters, stat­ist­ic­al chiefs, and envir­on­ment­al officials […]

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Ownership, inclusion key to community-based tourism

June 17, 2017
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The most import­ant factors influ­en­cing the suc­cess of com­munity-based tour­ism (CBT) pro­jects in Myan­mar are “com­munity organ­isa­tion and man­age­ment sup­port” fol­lowed by “tour­ism product devel­op­ment accord­ing to mar­ket needs”. The main reas­ons for fail­ure are “top-down approach by devel­op­ment part­ner and/or private sec­tor part­ner in which the needs and ideas of the com­munity are not taken […]

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Africa needs “inclusive and green tourism growth”

June 17, 2017

Africa Tourism Monitor: Sustainable Tourism through Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technology

Afric­an coun­tries need to craft eco­nom­ic and trade policies that will foster inclus­ive and green tour­ism growth, accord­ing to the latest edi­tion of the Africa Tour­ism Mon­it­or. The report, sub­titled “Sus­tain­able Tour­ism through Innov­a­tion, Entre­pren­eur­ship, and Tech­no­logy” and dated Decem­ber 2016, has just been released by the Afric­an Devel­op­ment Bank (AfDB). It stresses why it […]

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A PM appointed IY2017 ambassador … oh, and food fish are going extinct

June 13, 2017

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Head­lining a UNWTO press release dated June 12 is the fact that the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) appoin­ted the Prime Min­is­ter of Sam­oa, Tuilae­pa Sailele Malielegaoi, as one of nine (9) Spe­cial Ambas­sad­ors of the Inter­na­tion­al Year of Sus­tain­able Tour­ism for Devel­op­ment 2017. The cere­mony took place in New York on June 7 […]

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Do all-inclusive holidays promote gluttony, obesity?

June 8, 2017
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Do all-you-can-eat all-inclusive holidays promote gluttony, obesity?

The propensity for all-inclus­ive tour­ism pack­ages to lay on all-you-can-eat feasts at every meal may be con­trib­ut­ing to obesity among pop­u­la­tions who can afford such trips, accord­ing to Pro­fess­or Erdogan Koc of Bandirma Onyedi Eylul Uni­ver­sity in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight con­tri­bu­tion.  If Prof Koc’s sus­pi­cions are true, what can the industry real­ist­ic­ally do to […]

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