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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What is ‘mass tourism’? How do we think about it and talk about it? Do we consider all of its contexts, costs, and benefits? Does mass tourism contribute to good lives? Or do ‘the masses’ only represent threat? Does leisure travel for the many have its place in a ‘green’ future for us all? Or […]
Read More What is ‘mass tourism’? And what’s the problem?
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Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Chair Peter Semone delivered an impassioned keynote address, October 4, on the eve of PATA Travel Mart 2023 in New Delhi, India. This “Good Tourism” Insight version was published with Mr Semone’s blessing. “GT” is attending PATA Travel Mart at the kind invitation of PATA and thanks to the generosity of […]
Read More ‘Where responsibility meets opportunity’ is where tourism faces its threats
Travel in his native Rwanda is a source of artistic inspiration. Encounters with tourists, and teaching children, is fuel for motivation. It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight by passionate painter Credo Boris Harera who says: “Tourism changed my life.”
Read More From creative child to professional artist: How travel & tourism changed my life
“Hordes” and “swarms” of tourists “forced through a well-oiled funnel” to “crawl” through our cherished spaces, relegating them to “backdrops” for selfies. Perhaps we should tell them to “go home” and “stay away” from our “perfect places”. Is this the scapegoating propaganda of a paranoid authoritarian state? No, it’s just media portrayals of terrible tourists. […]
Read More Was this the European summer of terrible tourists? Give us a break, media!
It can be difficult to find a balance between species conservation and the needs and aspirations of our own species. In this “Good Tourism” Insight, Sheillah Munsabe of the Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network describes a gorilla-friendly model for conservation, responsible tourism, and improved community livelihoods. As we become more globalised, the responsibility for protecting Earth’s […]
Read More Is gorilla-friendly conservation compatible with local communities and tourism?