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Khiri Travel, the Southeast Asia-based destination management company, has earned certification as a sustainable tour operator by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC).
Eight countries
Rigorous audit process
Staff certification and awards
About Khiri Travel
As we stumble into 2026, the travel & tourism industry is waking up to a particularly jarring ‘morning after’. The rhetoric of 2025 — promises of seamless digitalisation, ethical wildlife encounters, and ‘net-zero’ fuels — is colliding with a messy reality.
From the unintended consequences of biofuels on honeybee populations to the “worst possible experience” delivered by over-digitalisation, the first few days of the year suggest that every ‘solution’ brings a new set of problems.
Read More News and questions (without answers) from the week ending January 4, 2026
Welcome to the November-December 2025 wrap of “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and experiences shared by friends and Partners of ‘The “Good Tourism” Blog’.
Tourism is a complex industry, so it is a good idea to open one’s mind to perspectives one may never otherwise encounter.
This is the “Good Tourism” mission. It’s “GT”. And go!
Read More What is good tourism? “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel November-December 2025
Tourism built Bali’s reputation but nearly broke its reefs. Now, the same industry is becoming a force for recovery.
Led by Livingseas Asia, a pioneering dive operator in Padangbai, a growing number of visitors are returning not to take, but to give back. They are reviving coral ecosystems one dive at a time.
Read More From reef rubble to recovery: How Livingseas Asia is leading tourism in Bali
Cardamom Tented Camp in Cambodia is among the world’s most responsible tourism projects according to the International Centre for Responsible Tourism.
The ecolodge was acclaimed among 30 finalists at ICRT’s 2025 Global Responsible Tourism Awards in London, November 3.
Read More Cardamom Tented Camp among the world’s most responsible tourism projects: ICRT
Perhaps 80% of the plastic in our oceans gets there via rivers. In Manado, Indonesia the grassroots No-Trash River project uses simple barriers to catch plastic waste, preventing it from reaching the Bunaken Marine Park and spoiling its dive tourism hotspots.
Learn more from Anna Clerici, co-founder of the No-Trash Triangle Initiative which is an EXO Foundation Sustainability Award winner.
Read More Can the tide of ocean plastic be stopped? The No-Trash Triangle Initiative thinks so