“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.

Going off track to find the right path for Himalayan tourism

October 31, 2017
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Vandana Vijay’s Off­beat Tracks launched in 2016 to spread the concept of exper­i­en­tial travel and sus­tain­able com­munity-based eco­tour­ism in India, espe­cially among rur­al com­munit­ies in the Him­alay­as. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Ms Vijay offers examples of how she trans­lates her travel & tour­ism philo­sophy into action. UPDATE, June 2021: Promp­ted by “GT”, Ms Vijay […]

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Successful sustainable tourism is NOT all about the environment, society, economy

October 23, 2017

Successful sustainable tourism is NOT all about the environment, society, economy

Suc­cess­ful sus­tain­able tour­ism is not only about envir­on­ment­al, social, and eco­nom­ic imper­at­ives; it’s about mar­ket­ing too! In oth­er words, suc­cess­ful sus­tain­ab­il­ity strategies solve prob­lems for cus­tom­ers. So argues James McGregor, Founder & CEO of Blue Tribe, in this “GT” Insight. I have a con­fes­sion to make. Some­times when I travel for busi­ness or pleas­ure I […]

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Why We Hate Tourism Tours & why you should too

September 28, 2017

Why "We Hate Tourism Tours" and why you should too

With its pro­voc­at­ive name and mav­er­ick spir­it, We Hate Tour­ism Tours (WHTT) has attrac­ted plenty of con­sumer press and travel blog atten­tion since it star­ted facil­it­at­ing authen­t­ic exper­i­ences in Lis­bon, Por­tugal eight years ago. In this “GT” Insight, WHT­T’s “philo­soph­er-in-chief” Ricardo Oli­veira con­siders WHT­T’s unortho­dox approach in the con­text of tour­is­m’s “new real­ity”. We Hate Tourism […]

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Green Games for a blue planet? Rio 2016 one year on

September 23, 2017
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Sus­tain­able busi­ness con­sult­ant Ariane Janér wit­nessed first-hand how the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games affected the Brazili­an city she calls home. In this “GT” Insight, Ms Janér reflects on Rio 2016 and sum­mar­ises its poten­tial, pos­it­ives, broken prom­ises, and missed oppor­tun­it­ies. One year has gone by since the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, pro­moted as […]

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The keys to managing growth and sustainable tourism governance

and September 20, 2017

Dr Noel Scott was the lead author of the UNWTO special report on managing growth and sustainable tourism governance in Asia and the Pacific.

A spe­cial report on Man­aging Growth and Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Gov­ernance in Asia and the Pacific was launched by the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) at its 22nd Gen­er­al Assembly in Cheng­du, China last week. For this “GT” Insight, Dav­id Gill­banks of The “Good Tour­ism” Blog cor­res­pon­ded with the lead author of the report Dr Noel […]

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What is destination human capital? It’s the people!

September 1, 2017

Don't forget destination HUMAN capital development!

Peter Semone would advise any incom­ing tour­ism min­is­ter to focus on their des­tin­a­tion’s people as a pri­or­ity.  In this “GT” Insight, Mr Semone sum­mar­ises the chal­lenges and oppor­tun­it­ies for des­tin­a­tion human cap­it­al devel­op­ment and its poten­tial con­tri­bu­tion to the sus­tain­able devel­op­ment goals (SDGs) and to tour­ism industry per­form­ance more gen­er­ally. In 2016, I con­cluded my […]

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