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.

Involving indigenous people benefits business, environment: UN expert

August 10, 2017

indigenous tourism development

Gov­ern­ments too often sidestep indi­gen­ous people when approv­ing new infra­struc­ture pro­jects on their land, ignor­ing the poten­tial for sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic growth and envir­on­­ment­ally-friendly devel­op­ment, a UN expert said on Tues­day. A land­mark United Nations declar­a­tion adop­ted 10 years ago declared author­it­ies should seek con­sent from indi­gen­ous people before start­ing new infra­struc­ture pro­jects like mines and dams. […]

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Residents, authorities, hoteliers grapple with global sharing economy

August 9, 2017

World tourism and the sharing economy

Protests by res­id­ents and lob­by­ing by hoteliers are for­cing gov­ern­ments glob­ally to toughen their stance on the accom­mod­a­tion shar­ing eco­nomy. Spain’s Balear­ic Islands has announced it will pen­al­ise land­lords for illeg­ally rent­ing apart­ments to tour­ists with fines of up to 40,000 euros (~US$47,000). Rent­ing apart­ments without a licence was banned in the Balear­ic Islands in […]

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Vatican proclaims support for sustainable tourism “with a human touch”

August 3, 2017

Vatican sustainable tourism

The Vat­ic­an, via its Cath­ol­ic News Agency, has pro­claimed its sup­port for respons­ible travel and sus­tain­able tour­ism by urging tour­ists to “remem­ber the human per­son and the envir­on­ment in their travels, treat­ing people and things with respect”. Car­din­al Peter Turk­son wrote: “Hol­i­day time can­not be a pre­text either for irre­spons­ib­il­ity or for exploit­a­tion: in fact, […]

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Collective action, data are main challenges to fighting child sex tourism

July 29, 2017

global child sex tourism study

Fail­ure of col­lect­ive action and a chron­ic lack of robust data con­sti­tute the main chal­lenges to elim­in­ate child sex tour­ism accord­ing to Offend­ers on the Move: Glob­al Study on Sexu­al Exploit­a­tion of Chil­dren in Travel & Tour­ism 2016. Two weeks ago, the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) HQ in Mad­rid hos­ted a “trans­ition meeting […]

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Hotels train staff to read signs of modern slavery

July 21, 2017

modern slavery hotels. Old-school room keys.

Adult guests who check in with a child, repeat cash book­ings, or late check-ins without lug­gage could all be signs of mod­ern slavery under guid­ance newly issued to staff at a Brit­ish hotel chain. The 400 staff at Shiva hotels — from recep­tion­ists to human resources staff to clean­ers — will be trained as part of a com­pany-wide cam­paign to […]

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Is orphanage tourism a form of modern slavery?

July 21, 2017

Orphanage tourism and slavery. Tonle Sap, Siem Reap, Cambodia: A little girl making money for her family by posing with a snake in a water village of Tonle Sap Lake. Source: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cccefalon via Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tonle_Sap_Siem_Reap_Cambodia_Girl-begging-for-money-with-snake-01.jpg

Many travel & tour­ism pro­fes­sion­als are com­ing to believe that orphan­age tour­ism is at best a prob­lem­at­ic means to gen­er­ate income to sup­port chil­dren; at worst a form of mod­ern slavery. Slavery!? Mod­ern slavery is widely prac­ticed in the tour­ism sup­ply chain of devel­op­ing coun­tries, accord­ing to Aus­trali­an aca­dem­ics Joseph M. Cheer, Kent Goldsworthy, Leigh […]

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