International “Good Tourism” news

Here you will find glob­ally-rel­ev­ant news about The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s Part­ners and friends — espe­cially their sus­tain­able tour­ism and/or respons­ible travel activ­it­ies — plus “Good news in tour­ism” and cov­er­age of inter­na­tion­al 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 inter­na­tion­al 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.

Hi! Have you registered for the Strong Earth Youth Summit 2024 yet?

March 20, 2024

SUNx Malta Strong Earth Youth Summit SEYS 2024 promotion

Young people in travel & tour­ism, and their ment­ors and sup­port­ers, are invited right now to register for the 2024 edi­tion of the Strong Earth Youth Sum­mit (SEYS). The Strong Earth Youth Sum­mit (SEYS) is an annu­al trib­ute to Maurice Strong, cli­mate act­iv­ist for more than 50 years and Sec­ret­ary Gen­er­al of the first “Earth Sum­mit” in […]

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FINAL CALL for entries: Strong Earth Awards 2024, Advancing the Earth Charter

March 14, 2024

Strong Earth Awards 2024

March 31, 2024 is the dead­line for the Strong Earth Awards 2024.  Entrants are invited to sub­mit a thought-pro­­vok­ing 500-word essay on:  “Why is the Earth Charter more rel­ev­ant today than when it was intro­duced by Maurice Strong and Mikhail Gorbachev in 2005; espe­cially for tour­ism in Least Devel­op­ing Coun­tries (LDCs) and Small Island Devel­op­ing States […]

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CABI Tourism Cases: Tourism and communities

February 27, 2024

Tourism and communities. A Cyprus man and his goat. Image by Dimitris Vetsikas (CC0) via Pixabay. "GT" cropped the image and added the words. https://pixabay.com/photos/cyprus-fikardou-village-2568199/

CABI Tour­ism Cases, a “Good Tour­ism” Part­ner, pub­lishes peer-reviewed case stud­ies on travel & tourism’s inter­ac­tions with the world from just about every angle … includ­ing tour­ism and com­munit­ies. This is the second in a new series of posts in which CABI shares brief sum­mar­ies of its most recent tour­ism-related case stud­ies (and books) along vari­ous themes.

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Support small islands: Register now for 4th Annual SEYS (Strong Earth Youth Summit)

February 20, 2024

SUNx Malta Strong Earth Youth Summit SEYS 2024 promotion

Young people in tour­ism, and their ment­ors and sup­port­ers, are invited right now to register for the 2024 edi­tion of the Strong Earth Youth Sum­mit (SEYS). The Strong Earth Youth Sum­mit (SEYS) is an annu­al trib­ute to Maurice Strong, cli­mate act­iv­ist for over 50 years and Sec­ret­ary Gen­er­al of the first “Earth Sum­mit” in 1972 […]

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Don’t forget niches: Marketing to micro-communities for sustainable tourism growth

and February 12, 2024

'Niche inspiration', Image supplied by Chameleon Strategies, with credit to Shutterstock.com/Graceful Digital Shutterstock.com/Ground Picture Shutterstock.com/Mike_O Shutterstock.com/Bill45 Shutterstock.com/Anna Jedynak Shutterstock.com/goodluz Shutterstock.com/CandyRetriever Shutterstock.com/SALMONNEGRO-STOCK

“Instead of reach­ing a mass audi­ence, des­tin­a­tions can be a big fish in a small pond by focus­ing on niche mar­kets, where they can excel and provide the most value to both vis­it­ors and the tour­ism industry.” So says Jens Thraen­hart, glob­al tour­ism strategist and found­ing part­ner of UNWTO Affil­i­ate Mem­ber Chamele­on Strategies.  Accord­ing to […]

Read More Don’t forget niches: Marketing to micro-communities for sustainable tourism growth
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‘Climate Justice’ in tourism shouldn’t be too hard and it’s the right thing to do

and February 9, 2024

‘Climate Justice’ in tourism shouldn’t be too hard and it’s the right thing to do. Image by Markus Spiske (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/people-gathered-outside-buildings-holding-climate-justice-now-signage-dYZumbs8f_E

There is increas­ing chat­ter on social media about the need for ‘Cli­mate Justice’. At its core, Cli­mate Justice is ensur­ing a very strong meas­ure of pro­tec­tion for those who did the least to cre­ate the ‘Code Red Cli­mate Crisis’, and who are likely to be the most to suf­fer from cli­mate change, and who are […]

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