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.

SUNx announces ‘Climate Friendly Travel Club’

October 3, 2023

SUNx announces ‘Climate Friendly Travel Club’

Bali, Indone­sia, Octo­ber 2, 2023: In the icon­ic glob­al tour­ism centre of Bali, SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work — announced that it was launch­ing a new social enter­prise for Cli­mate Friendly Trav­el­lers, the Cli­mate Friendly Travel Club. Pro­fess­or Geof­frey Lip­man, Pres­id­ent of SUNx, announced this dur­ing the World Tour­ism Net­work (WTN)’s TIME Sum­mit with the form­al sig­na­ture of an SDG […]

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SUNx Malta launches 50 Climate Friendly Travel Chapters in world’s LDCs

September 27, 2023

SUNx Malta launches 50 Climate Friendly Travel Chapters in world’s LDCs

Malta’s Min­is­ter for Tour­ism Hon. Clayton Bar­to­lo MP (pic­tured above), Malta Tour­ism Author­ity (MTA) CEO Carlo Mic­allef, and Malta Tour­ism Obser­vat­ory MD Leslie Vella have launched 50 SUNx Chapters in the world’s least developed coun­tries (LDCs). Today’s launch event at MTA, as well as Malta’s broad­er sup­port of SUNx, is a key com­pon­ent of the […]

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Emotions, storytelling, AI, & tech dominate culture & heritage tourism summit

September 27, 2023

Culture and heritage tourism discussed at WTACH Global Leaders Summit in Valencia, Spain

Emo­tion­al con­nec­tion, empathy, and nar­rat­ive storytelling in an AI age of declin­ing atten­tion spans dom­in­ated debate at the inaug­ur­al Glob­al Lead­ers Sum­mit of the World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture and Her­it­age (WTACH). Her­it­age tour­ism experts grappled with com­plex issues of present­ing cul­ture and her­it­age to tour­ists at an inter­na­tion­al gath­er­ing of cul­ture tour­ism experts Septem­ber 24 – 25 […]

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50 full scholarships for Climate Friendly Travel Diploma

August 18, 2023

Climate Friendly Travel Diploma: 50 full scholarships for students in SIDS and other developing states

Are you a gradu­ate in travel & tour­ism who is flu­ent in Eng­lish? Are you from one of the 39 SIDS (Small Island Devel­op­ing States)? SUNx Malta is offer­ing 50 full schol­ar­ships for the 2023 intake of its two-year online Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) Diploma.

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TPCC engages travel & tourism research community in open discussion on climate change, in preparation for first ‘Stocktake’

August 7, 2023

TPCC tourism and climate change surrey 2023 feat

The inde­pend­ent, sci­ence-based Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) had its first pub­lic open dis­cus­sion with more than 350 travel & tour­ism aca­dem­ic research­ers on July 6, the second day of the Sur­rey 2023 Con­fer­ence, “Back For Good”. Pro­fess­or Daniel Scott, who chaired the ses­sion, described the audi­ence engage­ment at the event as “very encour­aging and […]

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Is there a link between tourism’s resilience and adaptability to climate change?

July 14, 2023

Is there a link between tourism's resilience and adaptability to climate change? Photo by Karim MANJRA (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/Jwk88nuBMr4

Tour­ism des­tin­a­tions and attrac­tions should think about how to increase resi­li­ence so that cli­mate adapt­a­tion has a high­er chance of suc­ceed­ing, accord­ing to Kev­in Phun, founder of the Centre for Respons­ible Tour­ism Singa­pore (CRTS), a “Good Tour­ism” Part­ner.  “The call to increase resi­li­ence in tour­ism to enable adapt­a­tion in more places is surely get­ting louder,” […]

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