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.

Businesses think they’re on top of carbon risk, but tourism destinations have barely a clue: Professor

February 10, 2019

Tourism accounts for approximately 8% of emissions, much of it from planes ... A Qantas Boeing 747-400 flying at approximately 11,000 metres over Starbeyevo in Moscow, May 2010. By Sergey Kustov http://www.airliners.net/photo/Qantas/Boeing-747-438/1729381/L/ (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16496086

Less energy- and car­­bon-intens­ive slow travel could be the future of tour­ism in far-flung des­tin­a­tions, accord­ing to Susanne Beck­en of Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity. The dir­ect­ors of most Aus­trali­an com­pan­ies are well aware of the impact of car­bon emis­sions, not only on the envir­on­ment but also on their own firms as emis­­sions-intens­ive indus­tries get lumbered with taxes […]

Read More Businesses think they’re on top of carbon risk, but tourism destinations have barely a clue: Professor
Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Oceania, "GT" news international
Tags: , ,

We’re in the era of overtourism but there is a more sustainable way forward: Professor

February 7, 2019

Overtourism leads to overcrowding. What to do? Bans? Entrance fees? (Image by pierrelaurentdurantin via Pixabay cropped and enhanced by "GT".) https://pixabay.com/en/beach-world-sun-crowd-654641/

Over­tour­ism can be fixed or mit­ig­ated by tak­ing more ser­i­ously the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals, accord­ing to Regina Scheyvens of Mas­sey Uni­ver­sity. If you live in a tour­ist des­tin­a­tion, you might dread the hol­i­day inva­sion. Like­wise, dis­gruntled tour­ists com­plain about crowded and pol­luted beaches, nation­al parks or attrac­tions.  Over­tour­ism is now a ser­i­ous issue in many […]

Read More We’re in the era of overtourism but there is a more sustainable way forward: Professor
Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news international
Tags: , ,

The “Good Tourism” Podcast #1: Geoffrey Lipman & the existential threat

and October 27, 2017

Geoffrey Lipman

Pro­fess­or Geof­frey Lip­man joined Dav­id Gill­banks on Skype, Thursday, to record the first epis­ode of The “Good Tour­ism” Pod­cast. About pod­casts & how to sub­scribe to The “Good Tour­ism” Pod­cast  [UPDATE Novem­ber 8, 2017: The Inter­na­tion­al Insti­tute for Peace through Tour­ism has chosen five people from the world of travel & tour­ism to hon­our as “Glob­al Ambassadors […]

Read More The “Good Tourism” Podcast #1: Geoffrey Lipman & the existential threat
Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news international, Podcast
Tags: , , , ,

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 […]

Read More Child sex tourism goes suburban, rural, online
Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Asia, "GT" news from the Americas, "GT" news international
Tags: , , , ,

“Historical moment” as tourism ethics code becomes a convention

September 16, 2017

unwto global code tourism ethics cover cr

The mem­ber states of the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) have approved the UNWTO Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Tour­ism Eth­ics. This is based on the Glob­al Code of Eth­ics for Tour­ism (PDF 787 KB) and is, accord­ing to a UNWTO press release upon which this post is based, the first inter­na­tion­al con­ven­tion ini­ti­ated by the UNWTO. […]

Read More “Historical moment” as tourism ethics code becomes a convention
Posted in Downloads, "GT" news & events, "GT" news international
Tags: , ,

Tourism growth is not the enemy: UNWTO boss

August 27, 2017

Tourism growth is not the enemy according to UNWTO Secretary General Taleb Rifai

In response to an increas­ing num­ber of reports about “tour­ism-pho­­bia”, the the World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO), August 15, released an opin­ion piece by its Sec­ret­ary Gen­er­al, Taleb Rifai, arguing that tour­ism growth is not the enemy; it’s how we man­age it that counts. As an eco­nom­ic activ­ity, travel and tour­ism is rel­at­ively young; yet it […]

Read More Tourism growth is not the enemy: UNWTO boss
Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news international, Downloads
Tags: , ,