“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.

Belgian B&B implements sustainable circular solutions: A case study

, and August 16, 2022
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Lighthouse at Nieuwpoort, Belgium. By Wouter Martens (CC0) via Unsplash. Arrows by GDJ (CC0) via Pixabay.

A bed & break­fast in Nieuw­poort, Bel­gi­um has lever­aged the sup­port of a European Uni­on-fun­­ded pro­ject to imple­ment viable ‘cir­cu­lar’ solu­tions. Accord­ing to authors Angelo Sciacca, Lucien von Schomberg, and Eline Brutyn, the B&B’s own­ers have set a good example for oth­er travel & tour­ism entre­pren­eurs to fol­low.  It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too […]

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“GT” Insight Bites: Diverse perspectives on travel & tourism and a fairer world

August 9, 2022

Fair fun for some. There are diverse perspectives on how travel & tourism can contribute to a fairer world. Photo by sebastien cordat via Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/ZGOlXxJz1dM

How can travel & tour­ism con­trib­ute to a fairer world? For this “GT” Insight Bites, your cor­res­pond­ent put the ques­tion above to a range of travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers, and invited writ­ten responses of up to 300 words.  My thanks to all 15 respond­ents.  Their answers appear in the order in which I received them … […]

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Buddhist travel & tourism trails offer post-pandemic potential in Mekong

August 2, 2022

Almsgiving in Luang Prabang, Laos. By Daniel Marchal (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/f2d6hc6gVco

Not­ing that themed travel & tour­ism niches have been a grow­ing trend for at least two dec­ades, vet­er­an pub­lish­er Jaf­fee Yee has iden­ti­fied the poten­tial for the Mekong-region nations of South­east Asia to tap their rich Buddhist her­it­age to attract and dis­perse a large region­al and glob­al mar­ket.  Twenty years ago, to explain why he […]

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Travel & tourism degrowth to what end? Relationships that matter

July 26, 2022

Degrowth is about relationships that matter. Image by Sasin Tipchai (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/grandmother-kids-laptop-myanmar-1822560/

‘Tour­ism degrowth’ is viewed sus­pi­ciously by some as a con­spir­acy to tear down cap­it­al­ism and vastly reduce travel.  Accord­ing to Tazim Jamal, how­ever, tour­ism degrowth is much more about fos­ter­ing heal­ing and nur­tur­ing rela­tion­ships with people and our plan­et. And she thinks that we should tran­scend labels and divi­sions. Between 2009 and 2019, real growth […]

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To grow, or not to grow? A modern hero’s soliloquy

July 19, 2022

To grow or not to grow? Image by Lothar Dieterich (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/boy-batman-superhero-photomontage-4397427/

To pur­sue a strategy of tour­ism industry growth or degrowth is a des­t­in­a­­tion-by-des­t­in­a­­tion ques­tion, argues Ivana Dam­njan­ović in her second “Good Tour­ism” Insight.  [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] We live on a finite plan­et. We only have one. We use up all that it provides us much faster than it can replen­ish itself.  Travel, […]

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No invitation required: Hedonic sustainability & meaningful tourism

June 28, 2022
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Is this hedonic sustainability and meaningful tourism By Karsten Würth (CC0) via Unsplash.

What is ‘hedon­ic sus­tain­ab­il­ity’ and ‘mean­ing­ful tour­ism’? Wolfgang Georg Arlt intro­duces and describes the terms in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, which is a response to a “GT” Insight by his friend Thomas Bauer. [Thanks to Dr Bauer for invit­ing Dr Arlt to write a “GT” Insight. And thanks to both of them for mod­el­ling the spir­it of “GT”, […]

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