“Good Tourism” news from Europe

Here you will find news about The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s Part­ners and friends in Europe, includ­ing the United King­dom — espe­cially their sus­tain­able tour­ism and/or respons­ible travel activ­it­ies — plus “Good news in tour­ism” and cov­er­age of European 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 of European or UK import­ance 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.

Holidays for the visually impaired: Seable runs crowdfunding campaign


Holidays for the visually impaired: Seable runs crowdfunding campaign

Seable is the only multi-award win­ning tour oper­at­or in the United King­dom to cre­ate assisted, act­ive, and tailored hol­i­days for the visu­ally impaired. [This “GT” ‘spon­sor mes­sage’ was offered free-of-charge to assist Seable in their crowd­fund­ing cam­paign.] We strive to cre­ate access­ible hol­i­days that improve inde­pend­ence, inclu­sion, and well­being, offer­ing indi­vidu­al oppor­tun­it­ies to increase confidence, […]

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WTACH, Nordic Tourism Collective join forces on culture and heritage


WTACH and Nordic Tourism Collective team up

The World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture and Her­it­age (WTACH) has teamed up with the Nor­d­ic Tour­ism Col­lect­ive (NTC) to build mutu­al aware­ness of the unique cul­tur­al and her­it­age assets in the great­er Nor­d­ic and Balt­ic region. WTACH will provide expert­ise and lead dis­cus­sions and train­ing ses­sions on cul­ture and her­it­age tour­ism at NTC work­shops and […]

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War in Ukraine and the real ‘ethical tourism’

March 12, 2022

What does war in Ukraine mean (if anything) for the concept of ethical tourism?

The travel & tour­ism industry can do plenty to sup­port the people of Ukraine in their fight for free­dom, such as lever­age its com­mu­nic­a­tions and pay­ments chan­nels.  That would rep­res­ent a truly ‘eth­ic­al tour­ism’, accord­ing to Jim Butcher. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] I’ve nev­er been a fan of […]

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Why VisitScotland declared a climate emergency & what it means for tourism

February 2, 2021

Uath Lochans, Kingussie, Scotland. By VisitScotland / Damian Shields.

As has been widely repor­ted in both industry and main­stream media, Vis­itScot­land has joined oth­er travel & tour­ism organ­isa­tions in “declar­ing a cli­mate emer­gency”. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, trends strategist Chris Green­wood shares the early devel­op­ments of the Scot­tish nation­al tour­ism board’s emer­gency response and its implic­a­tions for stake­hold­ers. As we look ahead to […]

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Worldwide Travel Alliance announced


Worldwide Travel Alliance

New European sales & mar­ket­ing group tar­gets travel & tour­ism entit­ies world­wide ahead of post-COV­­ID vac­cine travel boom. The World­wide Travel Alli­ance (WTA) has been launched to provide sales, mar­ket­ing, rep­res­ent­a­tion and PR ser­vices to glob­al travel brands seek­ing European cus­tom­ers. The Alli­ance con­sists of six lead­ing sales and mar­ket­ing experts based in the UK, […]

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Good news in tourism October 25 – 31, 2020

November 1, 2020

Jacaranda trees bloom on a suburban street in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Native to Latin America and the Caribbean, Jacaranda have been introduced all over the world. By LittleMouse (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/jacaranda-queensland-spring-4579421/

Because “you are what you are” … 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” news Glob­al Eco looks to lead­ers From Earth […]

Read More Good news in tourism October 25 – 31, 2020