“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.

Tourism in crisis: A Myanmar elephant camp & community pivot to plan B

and October 2, 2020

An elephant of Green Hill Valley Elephant Camp, Shan state, Myanmar. (Image by Hollis Burbank-Hammarlund). Inset: GHV's Founders Tin Win Maw (Left) and Htun Htun Wynn (Image courtesy of GHV).

Through the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and tour­ism crisis, hopes rest on con­tin­gency “plan B” to sus­tain the retired log­ging ele­phants of Green Hill Val­ley, Myan­mar and the com­munity of people who love them.  Hol­lis Bur­b­ank-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al knows them well, hav­ing led ele­phant health­care and wel­fare work­shops at the camp in 2018 and […]

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Anurak Lodge in Thailand wins PATA Grand Award for sustainability

September 28, 2020

Anurak Community Lodge staff

Anurak Com­munity Lodge’s green cre­den­tials secure the ‘best of the best’ award for oper­at­or YAANA Ven­tures. YAANA Ven­tures, the oper­at­or of Anurak Com­munity Lodge at Khao Sok Nation­al Park in south­ern Thai­l­and, has been awar­ded the 2020 Pacific Asia Travel Asso­ci­ation (PATA) Grand Award in the Sus­tain­ab­il­ity cat­egory. The win­ners were announced dur­ing the online PATA Gold […]

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Good news in tourism September 20 – 26, 2020

September 27, 2020

Apple harvest. By lumix2004 (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/apple-orchard-apple-trees-red-1873078/

Because it’s free-range and organ­ic … Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism … everyone’s busi­ness. This week’s good travel & tour­ism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism (“GT”) news COVID ops The great outdoors […]

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Good news in tourism September 13 – 19, 2020

September 20, 2020
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“Very sweet,” she said. Spring wildflowers, Walpole, Western Australia. Image by your correspondent, David Gillbanks.

Because TLM (tour­ism live­li­hoods mat­ter) … Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism … everyone’s busi­ness. This week’s good travel & tour­ism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism (“GT”) news COVID ops Net-zero travel Ecotourism, […]

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Good news in tourism September 6 – 12, 2020

September 13, 2020

Stand by. Image by natsan (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/boat-gear-technique-navigation-181657/

Because it ain’t all bad! 🙂 Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism … everyone’s busi­ness. This week’s good travel & tour­ism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism (“GT”) news Tour­ism policy & governance […]

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Good news in tourism Aug 30 to Sep 5, 2020

September 6, 2020

Starry night in Langtang National Park, Nepal's first Himalayan national park and the country's fourth protected area. Image by Q-lieb-in (CC BY-SA 4.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starry_night_in_Langtang_National_Park.jpg

Because you deserve to smile … 🙂 Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism … everyone’s busi­ness. This week’s travel & tour­ism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism” (“GT”) news Net-zero travel & tourism […]

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