“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.

Opportunities in coastal and marine tourism education: Hello universities!

August 24, 2026
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Coastal and mar­ine tour­ism accounts for at least half of the glob­al sec­tor, so why are uni­ver­sit­ies largely ignor­ing it?

Jeff Wilks illu­min­ates the oppor­tun­it­ies for high­er edu­ca­tion to offer coastal and mar­ine tour­ism edu­ca­tion (and train­ing) to those keen to dive into the ‘Blue Economy’.

It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight.

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Digital nomadism: the perfect life?

July 6, 2026
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Is the digit­al nomad life­style the per­fect, bound­ary-break­ing exist­ence it appears to be on social media? Or does the free­dom to live as a ‘cit­izen of the world’ mask a deep­er dislocation? 

Jim Butcher exam­ines the cul­tur­al and polit­ic­al trade-offs of hyper­mobil­ity, and ques­tions what is lost when we walk away from the con­cepts of com­munity, cit­izen­ship, and ‘home’.

It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight.

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Is there a right to travel or be a tourist in a world of limits?

, and June 4, 2026
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Is travel & tour­ism a human right or elite priv­ilege? As res­id­ents protest against over­tour­ism and des­tin­a­tions intro­duce vis­it­or caps, is it time to rethink our free­dom of movement?

Ralf Vogler, Nadja Sch­weiggart, and Adri­an Müller out­line how we might dis­tin­guish between neces­sary travel and dis­cre­tion­ary tour­ism con­sump­tion and pro­pose a ‘stair­case mod­el’ of ascend­ing justifications.

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Do green, low-carbon travel & tourism supply chains unintentionally exclude women?

May 26, 2026

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Do green, low-car­bon travel & tour­ism sup­ply chains unin­ten­tion­ally exclude women?

“[C]lean energy trans­itions are nev­er purely tech­nic­al. They redis­trib­ute costs and oppor­tun­it­ies, which can unin­ten­tion­ally widen exist­ing gender inequities.” 

This is what Kev­in Phun of the Centre for Respons­ible Tour­ism Singa­pore asks and argues in a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bite that leads a com­pil­a­tion of responses.

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Governance bottlenecks are slowing Kenya’s sustainability progress: How to break them

May 18, 2026

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The ‘say-do gap’ in sus­tain­able travel & tour­ism is not only an issue in con­sumer decision-mak­ing and cap­it­al alloc­a­tion. It is also an insti­tu­tion­al, bur­eau­crat­ic, and polit­ic­al problem.

As Doreen Nyam­weya has dis­covered through her exper­i­ence in loc­al gov­ern­ment in Kenya, pro­gress towards sus­tain­ab­il­ity is pos­sible, but nev­er swift nor perfect.

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Can tourism in ‘the Global South’ ever be truly sustainable? UCB students have a say

May 12, 2026

Can tourism in ‘the Global South’ ever be truly sustainable? UCB students have their say

“Can tour­ism in devel­op­ing coun­tries ever be truly ‘sus­tain­able’ when it deep­ens inequality? 

Using one des­tin­a­tion in the Glob­al South, argue wheth­er tour­ism there genu­inely advances SDGs 8, 10 and 12

Uni­ver­sity Col­lege Birm­ing­ham Seni­or Lec­turer Simon Faulkner posed that as a chal­lenge to his stu­dents. Three rose to it.

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