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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Is critical tourism studies losing its edge? Are CTS scholars shying away from the politics that are at the heart of critical theory? Prof Mary Mostafanezhad writes this “Good Tourism” Insight about critical tourism studies at the invitation of Tourism’s Horizon: Travel for the Millions, a “GT” Insight Partner. Not what you expect Critical tourism studies […]
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Is tourism from the developed world compatible with the developing world? Ceri Dingle believes so, and argues that if people could visit developing places without paternalistic pity and prejudice they would help support the sort of development and progress locals want. Ms Dingle writes this “Good Tourism” Insight about her education charity WORLDwrite and its experiences […]
Read More Tourism and solidarity with Ghana & the developing world: Can they go hand in hand?
With ‘greenwashing’ and other forms of empty rhetoric and ineffective policymaking allegedly rampant, is the travel & tourism industry, its students and consultants, engaged in ‘wishwashing’: hoping motivations and incentive structures are better aligned to our wishes than what they are in the real world? Yes? No? Sometimes? Maybe? Offer examples. And that is your “GT” […]
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“Interesting range of views”, Richard Butler (of Tourism Area Life Cycle model fame) writes in the comments section of the “GT” Insight Bites on opportunities and threats to tourism in 2025. “How do we square the first response re air travel and the second and fourth positive responses about tourism in [Southeast] Asia where many of the […]
Read More Butler asks: How do we solve one of the great conundrums of ‘sustainable’ tourism?
What is tourism’s biggest opportunity and/or threat where you are in 2025? It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight Bites question. Your correspondent put the question to the travel & tourism stakeholders in the “GT” network, inviting responses of no more than 300 words. (You too can join the “GT” network. Register.) Thanks to the nine good people — professors, professionals, and practitioners — who took the time […]
Read More What is tourism’s biggest opportunity and/or threat where you are in 2025?
‘Nostalgia. It ain’t what it used to be!’ Our travel tastes are often shaped by the memories of childhood holiday experiences, or of stories passed down through the generations. Marketers often play to this. What is the role of nostalgia in holidaymaking, from an individual or commercial perspective? It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight Bites question. Your correspondent put […]
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