“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.

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How tourism in India can help protect olive ridley turtles

June 5, 2019
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Olive ridley turtles by Chandan Singh (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorius/137320371/

In her second “GT” Insights con­tri­bu­tion, A Lajwanti Naidu shares what she has learned about olive rid­ley turtles and how the Andhra Pra­desh Tour­ism Author­ity does and can con­trib­ute to their con­ser­va­tion. Travel teaches more than books do. With this in mind, Andhra Pra­desh Tour­ism Author­ity organ­ised an edu­ca­tion­al tour to Diviseema and the Krishna […]

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Piling up: India tourism’s growing waste management problem

June 3, 2019
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India's beautiful iconic Taj Mahal and a pile of waste. Combines right-free images by Roney John (Taj Mahal) via Pexels and MrsBrown (the waste) via Pixabay.

Sus­tain­able tour­ism lead­er Tejas Joseph sum­mar­ises the waste man­age­ment chal­lenges facing India and its travel, tour­ism, and hos­pit­al­ity sec­tors, and recom­mends the first step towards tak­ing respons­ib­il­ity for it. Travel & tour­ism accoun­ted for 9.2% of India’s GDP in 2018 and facil­it­ated 8.1% of employ­ment. Fur­ther, the travel & tour­ism industry in India is slated to […]

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Panic! The effect of travel advisories on tourism after terrorism

May 31, 2019
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Travel warning advisory notice: By Gerd Altmann via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/travel-warning-shield-stamp-2521727/

Sri Lanka-based villa agent Jack Eden calls for the travel & tour­ism industry to work pro­act­ively to dampen the dev­ast­at­ing effects of travel advisor­ies that exacer­bate the human and eco­nom­ic dam­age of ter­ror­ism. I wish to share my views — and listen to those of my peers — in rela­tion to what role travel advisor­ies play in the fight […]

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Save money, satisfy guests, & join the fight against food waste

April 23, 2019
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Featured image: How much food waste in your tourism or hospitality business generating? Image copyright: LightBlue Environmental Consulting

Sus­tain­ab­il­ity advoc­ate and “waste fight­er” Lauren Khar­ouni presents the case against food waste, the busi­ness case for redu­cing it, and simple ways to start. Have you ever taken a closer look at data on glob­al food waste? If not, take a seat, the num­bers are strik­ing. Oth­er­wise, a short remind­er could not hurt. Every year, the UN […]

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What’s Goa-ing on? The past, present and future of tourism in Goa

April 8, 2019
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Goa beach scene, March 2013. By Saad Faruque (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Wikimedia. GT" cropped and enhanced it. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_Beach,_Goa_India,_March_2013.jpg

Justine Cal­ais of the Respons­ible Tour­ism Col­lect­ive of Goa shares her “GT” Insight into what’s really going on with tour­ism in Indi­a’s Sun­shine State. Goa is a unique place. It is fair to say that it has everything going for it that a tour­ism des­tin­a­tion could ever wish to have — but at the same time it has […]

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It’s mental: Why remote resorts are resisting renewable energy

April 3, 2019

Misool is a diving resort and conservation centre located in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Misool was founded on the belief that sustainable tourism could safeguard the future of the surrounding reefs, which are some of the most biodiverse on Earth. Designed and managed by Canopy Power, a PV-Storage Hybrid system was installed and commissioned in March 2018.

Daniel Rye devel­ops renew­able energy microgrids for remote applic­a­tions, includ­ing at hotels and resorts. In this “GT” Insight, Daniel dis­cusses the psy­cho­logy behind com­mon objec­tions decision makers have against an increas­ingly effi­cient and eco­nom­ic­al energy option. Renew­able energy is here. By empir­ic­al met­rics this is undeni­able. For example, 2015 was the first year that saw […]

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