“Good Tourism” Insights

Dancers, singers, and drummers from a local women’s cooperative welcome visitors to the Red Rocks Cultural Center in Nyakinama village, Rwanda. Pic by David Gillbanks.

Dan­cers, sing­ers, and drum­mers from a loc­al women’s cooper­at­ive wel­come vis­it­ors to the Red Rocks Cul­tur­al Cen­ter in Nyak­i­n­ama vil­lage, Rwanda. Pic by Dav­id Gillbanks.

“Good Tour­ism” Insights are ori­gin­al posts by aca­dem­ics, experts, and prac­ti­tion­ers who are keen to share their sus­tain­able tour­ism and respons­ible tour­ism insights, expert­ise, and exper­i­ences, in plain Eng­lish, for the bene­fit of all travel & tour­ism stakeholders.

Each “GT” Insight rep­res­ents the opin­ion of its author, NOT neces­sar­ily the opin­ion of The “Good Tour­ism” Blog, its Part­ners, or its pub­lish­er. The “Good Tour­ism” Blog neither pays nor is paid for any “GT” Insight. 

Any­one with an informed and sin­cerely-held opin­ion about travel & tour­ism is wel­come to sub­mit a “GT” Insight for pub­lic­a­tion. The “GT” Insight guidelines are very simple.

Outbound doesn’t care about sustainability | Well-being must include meaning

June 2, 2025

Outbound doesn’t care about sustainability | Well-being must include meaning | BiteX | Photo by David Courbit (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-turtle-in-water-during-daytime-M8xxVih_V_U "GT" cropped it and added the words.

Thanks to Kev­in Phun for his thoughts about out­bound travel agents’ and tour oper­at­ors’ rela­tion­ship with the notion of sus­tain­ab­il­ity, and Wolfgang Georg Arlt for shar­ing his think­ing around well-being and meaning. 

Their responses appear in the order received. 

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Visitor value, values, volume: What’s good where you are?

May 26, 2025

Visitor value, values, volume: What’s good where you are? A "Good Tourism" Insight Bites compilation

When con­sid­er­ing inbound tour­ism where you live, work, or oper­ate, how do you feel about the value vis­it­ors bring, the val­ues they hold, and their num­bers? That is your “GT” Insight Bites chal­lenge. Respond in the com­ments at any time.  For free copy edit­ing, lay­out, and pre­view in time for the offi­cial “GT” Insight Bites com­pil­a­tion, the […]

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Can we measure well-being? Rethinking ‘sustainability’ in nature-based tourism

May 24, 2025
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Can we measure well-being? Rethinking ‘sustainability’ in nature-based tourism. Red Rocks Rwanda pic by David Gillbanks

Has ‘sus­tain­ab­il­ity’ in travel & tour­ism become too nar­rowly focussed on a single ‘P’, Plan­et, side­lin­ing the well-being of people?  Beth All­good thinks it may have, espe­cially in the nature-based and eco­tour­ism niches.  Ms All­good pro­poses how we might meas­ure well-being in order to man­age it. It’s her second “Good Tour­ism” Insight. Sus­tain­ab­il­ity must include […]

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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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Is a travel & tourism career still attractive? Important things to understand in 2025

May 3, 2025

Is a travel & tourism career still attractive? Important things to understand in 2025. Map image with symbols by Harish Sharma (CC0) from Pixabay

Is a travel & tour­ism career still attract­ive in 2025? What is the most import­ant thing that a young per­son should under­stand before embark­ing upon a career in tour­ism? That is your “GT” Insight Bites chal­lenge. Write up to 300 words about the ques­tion in the com­ments at any time. [The dead­line for free copy editing, […]

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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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