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.
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If one can put romantic notions of ‘the good old days’ aside, then one must acknowledge that travel was then, and is now, an elitist pursuit for those with the luxuries of cash, time, and/or freedom. Tourism is expensive. Our industry has to change, according to Duncan M Simpson. But how?
Read More Cash, time, or freedom: Travel & tourism is expensive
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 […]
Read More Michele Sambaldi on technology, overtourism, sustainability, & connectivity
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 […]
Read More Prof Greg Richards on academic silos, localism, overtourism, and modernity
What do souvenirs mean to you? What do they say about the people who collect them and the places souvenirs purport to represent; then, now, and in the future? It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight by K Michael Haywood. (You too can write a “GT” Insight.) Souvenirs Having returned from a month in Portugal my head, while […]
Read More Souvenirs: Our sensorial selves, memories of the future
Thanks to these two Rwandan talents for contributing to this instalment of “GT” Insight Bites: Leonard, who demonstrated his art in real time at the Red Rocks Cultural Festival; Roger, who shared with me his love of birds as we walked through his beautiful village. You too can contribute.
Read More “GT” Insight Bites: On empowerment, promotion, and the power of expression
For some, excessive work-related travel disrupts lives at home. For digital nomads, work makes itinerant lifestyles possible. Digital nomads may be an attractive long-stay visitor segment for some destinations to target. But they won’t stay very long if they don’t like the place. What makes destinations attractive to digital nomads? Ron Davidson and Ed Jackiewicz […]
Read More On ‘permanent vacation’: Why digital nomads feel at ‘home’ in Bend, Oregon