“Good Tourism” news & events

Enjoy “GT’s” monthly “Good news in tour­ism” posts, which sum­mar­ise a month’s worth of “GT” Insights, “GT” Travel, “GT” Part­ner news, and your comments.

Also find here Partner/Sponsor mes­sages from The “Good Tour­ism” Blo­g’s Part­ners and friends plus cov­er­age of travel & tour­ism industry events to which “GT” is invited or oth­er­wise involved. Ad hoc sponsored news posts are also very welcome.

“GT” retired its weekly “Good news in tour­ism” posts in April 2021. The weekly posts fea­tured brief sum­mar­ies of and links to pos­it­ive industry news from off-piste sources. Before Decem­ber 2019, “GT” would sum­mar­ise under-repor­ted news stor­ies or thought-pro­vok­ing fea­ture art­icles by non-industry media. The sources were well-attrib­uted and linked. Any con­tent “GT” repub­lished in full was avail­able for that pur­pose from the likes of The Con­ver­sa­tion and Thom­son Reu­ters Found­a­tion.

Discover >100 new carbon-neutral ways to experience Thailand at ITB Berlin 2024

February 15, 2024

Discover >100 new carbon-neutral ways to experience Thailand at ITB Berlin 2024

Are you attend­ing ITB Ber­lin 2024 and look­ing for fun and inspir­ing new car­­bon-neut­ral tours and activ­it­ies in Thai­l­and for your increas­ingly cli­mate-aware cus­tom­ers? You’re in luck because the Thai Eco­tour­ism and Adven­ture Travel Asso­ci­ation (TEATA), in part­ner­ship with lead­ing Thai research and edu­ca­tion insti­tutes, is rolling out more than 100 new, inspir­ing tours designed to reduce […]

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Don’t forget niches: Marketing to micro-communities for sustainable tourism growth

and February 12, 2024

'Niche inspiration', Image supplied by Chameleon Strategies, with credit to Shutterstock.com/Graceful Digital Shutterstock.com/Ground Picture Shutterstock.com/Mike_O Shutterstock.com/Bill45 Shutterstock.com/Anna Jedynak Shutterstock.com/goodluz Shutterstock.com/CandyRetriever Shutterstock.com/SALMONNEGRO-STOCK

“Instead of reach­ing a mass audi­ence, des­tin­a­tions can be a big fish in a small pond by focus­ing on niche mar­kets, where they can excel and provide the most value to both vis­it­ors and the tour­ism industry.” So says Jens Thraen­hart, glob­al tour­ism strategist and found­ing part­ner of UNWTO Affil­i­ate Mem­ber Chamele­on Strategies.  Accord­ing to […]

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‘Climate Justice’ in tourism shouldn’t be too hard and it’s the right thing to do

and February 9, 2024

‘Climate Justice’ in tourism shouldn’t be too hard and it’s the right thing to do. Image by Markus Spiske (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/people-gathered-outside-buildings-holding-climate-justice-now-signage-dYZumbs8f_E

There is increas­ing chat­ter on social media about the need for ‘Cli­mate Justice’. At its core, Cli­mate Justice is ensur­ing a very strong meas­ure of pro­tec­tion for those who did the least to cre­ate the ‘Code Red Cli­mate Crisis’, and who are likely to be the most to suf­fer from cli­mate change, and who are […]

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Launching the Strong Earth Awards 2024, Advancing the Earth Charter

February 3, 2024

Strong Earth Awards 2024

SUNx Malta and Les Roches, togeth­er with The Earth Charter Insti­tute, the China Biod­iversity Con­ser­va­tion and Green Devel­op­ment Found­a­tion (CBCGDF), and the European Centre for Peace and Devel­op­ment (ECPD), have announced the launch of the Strong Earth Awards 2024.  What are the Strong Earth Awards? The Strong Earth Awards recog­nise stu­dents with a pas­sion for […]

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Good news in travel & tourism December 2023 to January 2024

January 31, 2024

Share ‘Good news in travel & tourism December 2023 to January 2024’ as a family might share a feast with you in Mabalacat, Philippines. Photo by Avel Chuklanov (CC0) via Unsplash.

This ‘Good news in travel & tour­ism’ wraps up two months of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences. Share it as a fam­ily might share a feast with you near Mabala­cat, Phil­ip­pines … It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch an item on the shar­ing menu to go straight to it. And don’t for­get to share.) “Good Tourism” […]

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Tourism & the climate crisis: New TPCC Horizon Papers on the implications of ‘Doughnut Economics’ & aviation’s inadequate climate change policies

January 24, 2024

New TPCC Horizon Papers on tourism and the climate crisis. Background image by Pete Linforth (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/sunset-sea-horizon-sun-sky-ocean-298850/

Fol­low­ing its recent Tour­ism and Cli­mate Change Stock­take 2023 in Decem­ber, the Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) has pub­lished two new ‘Hori­zon Papers’: The TPCC Exec­ut­ive Board issued the fol­low­ing state­ment: “Our recent Stock­take of the tour­ism sec­tor, by more than 60 lead­ing tour­ism and cli­mate aca­dem­ic and industry experts, made it clear that […]

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