“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.

“GT” Insight Bites: Diverse perspectives on economic degrowth and tourism

June 21, 2022

Tourism and economic degrowth. Is the only sustainable growth degrowth? Stencil wall by kamiel79 (CC0) and question mark overlay by kropekk_pl (CC0) both via Pixabay.

Tour­ism in the post-pan­­dem­ic ‘new nor­mal’ should be informed by eco­nom­ic degrowth, say some tour­ism aca­dem­ics and industry com­ment­at­ors who believe we can and should con­sume — and travel — less. If you are an aca­dem­ic or com­ment­at­or, how would you sum­mar­ise your views on degrowth for a gen­er­al industry audi­ence? If you are a travel & tour­ism practitioner, […]

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Revitalise: Empowering inspired hospitality

June 16, 2022

Revitalise: Empowering inspired hospitality. Refreshing drink by Photo Mix via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/drink-glass-lime-mint-cold-fresh-1532300/

Hos­pit­al­ity needs to be revered and revital­ised if travel & tour­ism is to become a con­struct­ive and trans­form­at­ive force for good, accord­ing to K Michael Hay­wood.  It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] Hos­pit­al­ity demon­strates trans­form­at­ive power when people embrace the oth­er and con­trib­ute to the over­all well-being of com­munit­ies, citizens, […]

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Ourselves, others, nature: The three relationships in regenerative tourism

June 14, 2022

Ourselves, others, nature: The three relationships in regenerative tourism. Image by sasint (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/woman-kid-rain-leaf-umbrella-1807533/

At a women’s retreat that starts soon, Sonia Ter­uel would like par­ti­cipants to “rein­force [their] fem­in­ine essence, and to flow with life and the nat­ur­al cycles” so as to more effect­ively work on the three rela­tion­ships of regen­er­a­tion (and regen­er­at­ive tour­ism). In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Ms Ter­uel describes the three rela­tion­ships. [You too can write […]

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Persuasion, packaging, or pathways: Which works as a visitor dispersion strategy?

June 7, 2022

Persuasion, packaging, or pathways: Which works as a visitor dispersion strategy? Photo by Christian Langballe (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/coaEiuv4unU

As evid­enced by the first “GT” Insight Bites, there are dif­fer­ent ways of look­ing at and try­ing to achieve ‘vis­it­or dis­per­sion’.  In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Dav­id Ward-Per­­kins offers a brief his­tory of vis­it­or dis­per­sion, sum­mar­ises three com­mon dis­per­sion strategies, and picks out the one that he thinks is most effect­ive. [You too can write a […]

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“GT” Insight Bites: Diverse perspectives on visitor dispersion

May 31, 2022

Visitor dispersion. Can it be managed? Or will visitors simply go where the winds blows, like dandelion seeds? Image by akirEVarga (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/dandelion-seeds-flower-nature-5302188/

An oft-cited anti­dote to over­tour­ism, and a means to spread the bene­fits of tour­ism more widely, is ‘vis­it­or dis­per­sion’. What are the biggest chal­lenges to encour­aging and incentiv­ising tour­ists to explore more of a des­tin­a­tion? Who or what do you think could con­trib­ute most to effect­ive vis­it­or dis­per­sion? What can an organ­isa­tion like yours do […]

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Unhiding Hirapur: A case study in cultural heritage tourism development

May 17, 2022

Tourism scholars and professionals with the yogini at Hirapur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

How does an insti­tu­tion of the Min­istry of Tour­ism, Gov­ern­ment of India trans­form under­ap­pre­ci­ated cul­tur­al her­it­age into a tour­ism attrac­tion? Ady­asha Das offers this “Good Tour­ism” Insight.  [Thanks to “GT” Part­ner the World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture and Her­it­age (WTACH) for invit­ing Dr Das to write this “GT” Insight. You too can write a “GT” Insight.] Through my research, […]

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