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.

UNESCO, World Bank commit to urban development, culture, resilience

July 19, 2017

Urban cultural heritage and sustainable tourism. UNESCO, World Bank sign MoU

Recog­nising that cul­tur­al her­it­age and sus­tain­able tour­ism have become “key eco­nom­ic drivers for poverty reduc­tion and job cre­ation”, UNESCO and the World Bank signed a new Memor­andum of Under­stand­ing (MoU) last week to rein­vig­or­ate their joint com­mit­ment to “advance sus­tain­able devel­op­ment by invest­ing in cul­ture, urb­an devel­op­ment, and resi­li­ence in an integ­rated man­ner”. Irina Bokova, Director-General […]

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Could climate change ground a third of aircraft?

July 17, 2017

Climate change airlines. Aerial view of Victorville Airport's aircraft boneyard, Victorville, California, USA. By Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A2009-0727-CA-VictorvilleBoneyard.jpgax

More fre­quent heat waves due to glob­al warm­ing may ground up to a third of air­planes world­wide in dec­ades to come with some air­ports in New York and Dubai likely to be hard hit, a study showed on Thursday. Air­lines may increas­ingly be forced to cut their loads of pas­sen­gers, cargo or fuel in order […]

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More shades of grey in elephant tourism

June 30, 2017
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More shades of grey in elephant tourism

Soon after The “Good Tour­ism” Blog shared a link to a “GT” Insight about ele­phant tour­ism to an eco­tour­ism industry Face­book group, the motiv­a­tion of con­trib­ut­or John Roberts was ques­tioned by an angry com­ment­at­or: “The fact that someone employed in the ele­phant rid­ing industry is writ­ing crit­ic­ally about the neg­at­ive impacts of Respons­ible Tour­ism on […]

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Three UN bosses offer four tips to become a sustainable tourist

June 29, 2017
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Three UN bosses offer four ways to be a sustainable tourist: Patricia Espinosa by UNclimatechange (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr; Erik Solheim by Harry Wad (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia Commons; and Taleb Rifai by World Travel & Tourism Council (CC BY 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons

Three United Nations big­wigs rep­res­ent­ing the port­fo­li­os of tour­ism, cli­mate change, and the envir­on­ment have com­bined forces on Devex to offer four ways to become a sus­tain­able tour­ist. The lead­ers, who pos­sibly sat in an office togeth­er brain­storm­ing their best ideas and delib­er­at­ing over their choice of words (but more likely asked a com­mu­nic­a­tions staffer […]

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Airport carbon dioxide emissions cut by 200,000 tonnes in 2015/16: ACI

June 26, 2017

ACI Director General Angela Gittens says airport carbon emissions were reduced by 200,000 tonnes in 2015/2016. Image source: 'Airport World'

Air­ports Coun­cil Inter­na­tion­al (ACI)‘s Air­port Car­bon Accred­it­a­tion pro­gramme reduced car­bon diox­ide emis­sions by more than 200,000 tonnes in the report­ing year end­ing June 2016, accord­ing to ACI Dir­ect­or Gen­er­al Angela Git­tens. The pro­gramme is now in its eighth year with 182 accred­ited air­ports in 54 coun­tries. Writ­ing for Air­port World, Ms Git­tens asser­ted that ACI’s […]

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Was it time to act on measuring sustainable tourism a decade ago?

June 24, 2017

Opening of the 6th International Conference on Tourism Statistics: Measuring Sustainable Tourism

A high-level mul­ti­lat­er­al con­fer­ence under the aus­pices of the World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) has pro­duced a declar­a­tion recog­nising the need to do some­thing about meas­ur­ing sus­tain­able tour­ism (MST); determ­in­ing tourism’s true con­tri­bu­tion to the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (SDGs). The “Manila Call for Action on Meas­ur­ing Sus­tain­able Tour­ism” says tour­ism min­is­ters, stat­ist­ic­al chiefs, and envir­on­ment­al officials […]

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