“Good Tourism” Insight Interviews

A “GT” Insight Inter­view is presen­ted in a simple Q&A format or is a sum­mary of an inter­view whose full tran­script is avail­able. In the spir­it of The “Good Tour­ism” Blog, the inter­view­er ensures that the inter­viewee’s con­sidered answers are faith­fully rep­res­en­ted. ‘Gotcha’ journ­al­ism is not, and nev­er will be, a strategy employed by “GT”.

Prof Richard Butler on tourism’s challenges and academia’s inadequacies

December 12, 2023

Professor Richard Butler on tourism’s challenges and academia’s inadequacies ... "[Don't] let wishful thinking take precedence over logic"

As most travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers rush towards an uncer­tain future filled with very real chal­lenges, Richard But­ler wor­ries that aca­demia is los­ing itself down ideo­lo­gic­al alley­ways and crit­ic­al cul-de-sacs. The cre­at­or of But­ler­’s Tour­ism Area Life Cycle (TALC) mod­el thinks it is import­ant for tour­ism research­ers and edu­cat­ors to check in with real­ity. Prof […]

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Michele Sambaldi on technology, overtourism, sustainability, & connectivity

November 21, 2023

Michele Sambaldi on technology, overtourism, sustainability, & connectivity

Michele Sam­baldi stresses the need to keep one’s prom­ises in order to suc­ceed in hos­pit­al­ity and tour­ism. He also notes the con­tra­dic­tions inher­ent in dis­cus­sions around over­tour­ism, sus­tain­ab­il­ity, infra­struc­ture, and devel­op­ment.  Mr Sam­baldi par­ti­cip­ated in a Tourism’s Hori­zon Inter­view. For this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, the inter­view­er Saverio Francesco Ber­to­lu­cci sum­mar­ises the high­lights. [The full tran­scripts of the Tourism’s […]

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Prof Greg Richards on academic silos, localism, overtourism, and modernity

November 13, 2023

Prof Greg Richards took part in the Tourism's Horizon Interviews and spoke about academic silos, localism, overtourism, and modernity

Greg Richards thinks more of us should lift our gaze from our nar­row aca­dem­ic, busi­ness, and loc­al con­cerns. We should scan the hori­zons of what we (think we) know, and try harder to under­stand the prim­or­di­al instinct we have to travel and the human incent­ives that drive the tour­ism industry.  Pro­fess­or Richards is the subject […]

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Invisible changemaker: A pioneer of community-based tourism in Ethiopia

August 23, 2022

Sunrise at Wajela community in Meket Woreda, North Wollo, Ethiopia. Photo © Elisa Spampinato.

In the first of her ‘Invis­ible Change­maker’ inter­views, Elisa Spamp­inato chats with Mark Chap­man, a pion­eer of com­munity-based tour­ism in Ethiopia.  The “Good Tour­ism” Blog is proud to pub­lish this inter­view series in col­lab­or­a­tion with Elisa’s Trav­el­ler Storyteller, a “GT” Part­ner. It’s a “GT” Insight Inter­view. [You can write a “GT” Insight.] To start this […]

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Regenerative tourism vs sustainable tourism: What’s the difference?

and August 4, 2020
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An unfurling silver fern frond, New Zealand. By Jon Radoff (CC BY 2.5) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1380624 The koru (Māori for '"loop or coil"') symbolises "new life, growth, strength and peace"; "conveys the idea of perpetual movement" while the inner coil "suggests returning to the point of origin".

For this “GT” Insight, Susanne Beck­en and Dav­id Gill­banks cor­res­pond to explore some of the sim­il­ar­it­ies and dif­fer­ences between the new buzz phrase “regen­er­at­ive tour­ism” and the old buzz term “sus­tain­able tour­ism”. DG: In a recent piece for News­room you wrote: “The very basic under­pin­ning of regen­er­at­ive tour­ism is that it is under­stood to occur […]

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The keys to managing growth and sustainable tourism governance

and September 20, 2017

Dr Noel Scott was the lead author of the UNWTO special report on managing growth and sustainable tourism governance in Asia and the Pacific.

A spe­cial report on Man­aging Growth and Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Gov­ernance in Asia and the Pacific was launched by the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) at its 22nd Gen­er­al Assembly in Cheng­du, China last week. For this “GT” Insight, Dav­id Gill­banks of The “Good Tour­ism” Blog cor­res­pon­ded with the lead author of the report Dr Noel […]

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