“Good Tourism” news from Asia

Here you will find news about The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s Part­ners and friends in Asia (includ­ing the Middle East) — espe­cially their sus­tain­able tour­ism and/or respons­ible travel activ­it­ies — plus “Good news in tour­ism” and cov­er­age of Asi­an travel & tour­ism industry events to which “GT” is invited or oth­er­wise involved. Ad hoc sponsored news posts are also very welcome.

Before Decem­ber 2019, “GT” would sum­mar­ise under-repor­ted news stor­ies or thought-pro­vok­ing fea­ture art­icles about or of import­ance to Asia by non-industry media. The sources were well-attrib­uted and linked. Any con­tent repub­lished in full was avail­able rights-free for that pur­pose from the likes of The Con­ver­sa­tion or the Thom­son Reu­ters Found­a­tion.

The “Good Tourism” Podcast #2: How to be a plastic-free hotel in 15 minutes

and November 15, 2017

plastic-free hotel

As co-founder of the not-for-profit Refill NOT Land­fill in Cam­bod­ia, Chris­ti­an de Boer claims a hotel can oblit­er­ate its reli­ance on plastic water bottles in about 15 minutes.  All it takes is will­power, a sig­na­ture, and a will­ing­ness to absorb or pass on about a dol­lar a day per guest. With more than a dec­ade’s worth […]

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From tourism to coffee, young Thais blend profit with social good

October 7, 2017

Young Thais like Aliza blend profit with social good, from tourism to coffee

Six years ago, Som­sak “Pai” Boonkam drew up a plan with two vil­lages in north­ern Thai­l­and for tour­ists to stay with loc­al fam­il­ies and immerse them­selves in hill-tribe cul­ture. The aim was for the vil­la­gers to see some fin­an­cial bene­fit from their coun­try’s multi-bil­lion-dol­lar tour­ism industry. Pai was sure it would be a hit with […]

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Thailand to help neighbours with community-based tourism

October 6, 2017

Thailand to offer CBT help to Laos, Cambodia, Bhutan leveraging examples such as Ban Rai Kong Khing

Thail­and’s Des­ig­nated Areas for Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Admin­is­tra­tion (DASTA) has agreed to help devel­op com­munity-based tour­ism (CBT) in Laos, Cam­bod­ia, and, pos­sibly, Bhutan. Accord­ing to the Bangkok Post, “this will be the first time the three coun­tries are work­ing closely with Thai­l­and spe­cific­ally on CBT devel­op­ment, after join­ing forces on cross-bor­der tour­ism, logist­ics and con­nectiv­ity, and […]

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#TravelEnjoyRespect video: “Beyond the great horizon”

October 3, 2017

#TravelEnjoyRespect video "Beyond the great horizon"

The Nation­al Academy of Arts, Cul­ture and Her­it­age (ASWARA), Malay­sia has released a video pro­mot­ing #TravelEn­joyRe­spect to help con­vey the mes­sage of how tour­ism can con­trib­ute to the 2030 Agenda for Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment and the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (SDGs). The 3.5‑minute music video (embed­ded below) was the concept of Pacific Asia Tour­ism Man­aging Dir­ect­or Steve […]

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Child sex tourism goes suburban, rural, online

September 26, 2017

Child sex tourism is moving away from red light districts and into the suburbs and country areas, and online.

Work­ing under­cov­er in bars and brothels across South­east Asia to com­bat child sex tour­ism and slavery, cam­paign­er Kev­in Camp­bell has posed many times as a tour­ist look­ing to buy sex with a girl. But these days, Camp­bell, who works for the anti-traf­fick­­ing group The Exodus Road, says it is far less com­mon to see young girls […]

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Coalition promotes Child Safe Tourism in Myanmar

September 21, 2017
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Myanmar coalition promotes Child Safe Tourism

While the world observes the troubles between the Rohingya and their neigh­bours in Myan­mar, the Uni­on’s tour­ism min­istry and the Myan­mar Respons­ible Tour­ism Insti­tute (MRTI) are work­ing with UNICEF to pro­mote Child Safe Tour­ism. Accord­ing to the Min­istry of Hotels and Tour­ism (MoHT), since July 31: “… sur­vey­ing and hold­ing aware­ness cam­paigns are being under­taken in […]

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