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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Travel & tourism’s host communities need alternative visions for development and the power to choose between them, according to lecturer and writer Jim Butcher. It’s his second “Good Tourism” Insight. Ethical tourism is strongly associated with ‘community empowerment’ and ‘local participation’. But how does this relate to the important debates raging about national democracy: populism, […]
Read More Tourism’s democratic deficit
Sonia Beckwith’s tiny Australian ecotourism operation Live Ningaloo faced an existential crisis in 2020, like so many travel & tourism businesses globally did (and still do). In this “Good Tourism” Insight, her second, Ms Beckwith shares the value of caring — a lot! — and how she harnesses and sustains it. When my partner and I founded our micro tourism […]
Read More What to keep, change, do in a crisis (and why we should give a sh*t)
For the sake of growing well-being and sharing the tourism commons with the greater majority, circular economic approaches to travel & tourism must replace neoliberal capitalist growth models. To make that argument, researcher Phoebe Everingham takes a critical theoretical approach. It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight. [Thanks to Joseph M Cheer for inviting Dr Everingham to […]
Read More Travel & tourism’s ‘critical’ rethink and its imperative shift to circular economics
The new year is an opportunity to reflect on the values that matter to the travel & tourism industry even after the pandemic ends, according to Raki Phillips of the Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority. In this “Good Tourism” Insight, Mr Phillips explains how the Emirate is embedding sustainability into everything it does. Let me […]
Read More Sustainable tourism’s endless balancing act: Preserving, promoting Ras Al Khaimah
Do you trust travel & tourism-related carbon offset schemes? Nico Nicholas and his partner Elkie didn’t, which is why they did some research and founded Trees4Travel. In this “Good Tourism” Insight, Mr Nicholas shares who and what inspired them. As an entrepreneurial couple, Elkie and I have spent our working lives travelling the globe. We […]
Read More What do you do when carbon offsetting is off-putting? Plant trees for travel
From the front line of a fight to end Vietnam’s trade in cats for their meat, veterinarian Katherine Polak of FOUR PAWS International explains why the cat meat trade presents a danger to travel & tourism, and how industry stakeholders can pledge their support. It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight. Images in this post may cause […]
Read More Vietnam’s ‘little tiger’ meat trade and why travel & tourism should help tackle it