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.
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 (non-human) animals and tourism. This is the first in a new series of posts in which CABI shares brief summaries of its most recent tourism-related case studies and books […]
Read More CABI Tourism Cases: Animals and tourism
Kevin Phun of the Centre for Responsible Tourism Singapore hosts the Responsible Tourism podcast, which explores the many dimensions of responsible tourism. Mr Phun summarises his thoughts about the challenges and opportunities around equitable climate adaptation.
Read More Enhancing equitable climate adaptation strategies through responsible tourism
The first Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake report has been released by the Tourism Panel on Climate Change (TPCC) concurrent with the UN COP 28 Climate Conference. [Download the Stocktake.] Its 24 key findings aim to support policy makers and the tourism industry to accelerate planning and investment toward low carbon and climate resilient global tourism. […]
Read More Revealed for COP 28: Global tourism’s first climate change stocktake report
November 30, 2023: “The time for real change is now,” according to the TPCC (Tourism Panel on Climate Change). The TPCC will launch its Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake 2023 on December 11 during a global online event at 0900 GMT/UTC, which will be repeated at 1700 for travel & tourism stakeholders around the world. This first sectoral Stocktake has […]
Read More It’s time for REAL change: TPCC ‘Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake 2023’
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 […]
Read More SUNx announces ‘Climate Friendly Travel Club’
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 […]
Read More SUNx Malta launches 50 Climate Friendly Travel Chapters in world’s LDCs