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.

No apologies: ‘eXistential’ climate change and peak GHG emissions 2025 are not advocacy issues. Travel & tourism must act now!


No apologies: ‘Existential’ climate change and peak GHG emissions 2025 are not advocacy issues. Travel & tourism must act now!

We at SUNx Malta make no apo­lo­gies for push­ing the exist­en­tial imper­at­ive of achiev­ing peak GHG emis­sions by 2025. We are reach­ing out to the lead­er­ship of the travel & tour­ism sec­tor to act on the latest IPCC report call­ing for three clear tar­gets to sta­bil­ise glob­al tem­per­at­ures at Par­is 1.5°C by mid-century …

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Earth Day news: TPCC gathering scientific knowledge on tourism and climate change in time for COP28


Tourism Panel on Climate Change (TPCC)

A stock­take of tour­ism-related cli­mate sci­ence, indic­at­ors of sec­tor cli­mate risk, and pro­gress on cli­mate action is a key first deliv­er­able for the Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) in 2023.  The TPCC has announced this ahead of Earth Day this Sat­urday, April 22. The first TPCC Stock­take will be the basis for future sci­ence ana­lys­is. Sixty-six […]

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World’s 46 Least Developed Countries to have Strong Climate Friendly Travel Chapters by September: Lipman


Strong Climate Friendly Travel Chapters to help world's least developed coutnries (LDCs). Photo by Miguel Bruna via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/@mbrunacr

DOHA, QATAR, MARCH 7, 2023: SUNx Malta will set up Strong Cli­mate Friendly Travel Chapters in all 46 least developed coun­tries (LDCs), plus select small island states. Chapters will work loc­ally to advance SUNx’ ambi­tious and action­able Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) agenda, which is focused on a Par­is 1.5°C tar­get. SUNx co-founder and pres­id­ent Geoffrey […]

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Holidays for the visually impaired: Seable runs crowdfunding campaign


Holidays for the visually impaired: Seable runs crowdfunding campaign

Seable is the only multi-award win­ning tour oper­at­or in the United King­dom to cre­ate assisted, act­ive, and tailored hol­i­days for the visu­ally impaired. [This “GT” ‘spon­sor mes­sage’ was offered free-of-charge to assist Seable in their crowd­fund­ing cam­paign.] We strive to cre­ate access­ible hol­i­days that improve inde­pend­ence, inclu­sion, and well­being, offer­ing indi­vidu­al oppor­tun­it­ies to increase confidence, […]

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On aviation emissions & financial risk: Tourism Panel on Climate Change (TPCC) publishes first Horizon Papers


On aviation emissions & financial risk: Tourism Panel on Climate Change (TPCC) publishes first Horizon Papers

The Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) has pub­lished its first ‘Hori­zon Papers’; one on the top­ic of redu­cing aviation’s green­house gas emis­sions (mit­ig­a­tion), anoth­er on the fin­an­cial resi­li­ence of tour­ism organ­isa­tions affected by cli­mate change (adapt­a­tion). TPCC’s Hori­zon Papers are lead­ing-edge think pieces to stim­u­late crit­ic­al exchanges at the inter­sec­tion of cli­mate change and […]

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Unprecedented Tourism Panel on Climate Change unveiled today at COP27


Tourism Panel on Climate Change (TPCC) unveiled at COP27

NOVEMBER 10 2022, SHARM EL-SHEIKH: The Exec­ut­ive Board of the Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) presen­ted a ‘Found­a­tion Frame­work’ today at the UN Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh. The Found­a­tion Frame­work sets out key mile­stones for the first-of-its-kind ini­ti­at­ive. The Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change rep­res­ents a new era of glob­al collaboration […]

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