“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.

Good news in tourism June 21 – 27, 2020

June 28, 2020

On the road to Mt Cook, New Zealand. By Bernard Spragg (CC0 1.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Road_to_Mount_Cook._NZ_(15143746653).jpg

… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism.  This week in “Good news …”: Car­­bon-neut­ral avi­ation Car­­bon-neut­ral ship­ping Com­munity focus Wild­life & eco­tour­ism Arts, crafts, & cul­tur­al her­it­age Tour­ism infra­struc­ture Friends indeed Odds & ends It’s “Good Tour­ism”. And go! […]

Read More Good news in tourism June 21 – 27, 2020

Keeping elephants healthy under the cloud of COVID-19


Dr Wachiraporn Toonrongchang and team at at a private camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Image supplied by Dr Nissa Mututanont of the GTAEF Foundation.

News from the field — from the Ele­phant Health­care Emer­gency Life­line Fund in Chi­ang Mai, Thai­l­and — by Hol­lis Bur­b­ank-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al. What’s the say­ing? An ounce of pre­ven­tion is worth a pound of cure? For Thailand’s tour­ism ele­phants con­fined to lock-down mode — along with the facil­it­ies and people who care for them — the need for routine and […]

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Good news in tourism June 14 – 20, 2020

June 21, 2020

Mother and baby mountain gorillas, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Source: Wikimedia / Carine06

… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism.  This week in “Good news …”: Com­munity Parks Wild­life Avi­ation Friends indeed Odds & ends It’s “Good Tour­ism”. And go! Import­ant “GT” news first: On Thursday your cor­res­pond­ent ques­tioned wheth­er or not the […]

Read More Good news in tourism June 14 – 20, 2020

Good news in tourism June 7 – 13, 2020

June 14, 2020

Just hanging around at Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre, Sabah, Malaysia. By Rob and Stephanie Levy (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. "GT" cropped it. https://www.flickr.com/photos/59773274@N00/2214312234

… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism.  This week in “Good news …”: Reopen­ings Mar­kets & mes­sages Eco­tour­ism & the great out­doors Avi­ation Odds & ends It’s “Good Tour­ism”. And go! Reopen­ings Jamaica will reopen its bor­ders to international […]

Read More Good news in tourism June 7 – 13, 2020

Good news in tourism May 31 to Jun 6, 2020

June 7, 2020

Travel planning! By Rawpixel Ltd (CC0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/byrawpixel/32191464373/in/photostream/

… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  As the pre­dict­able plat­it­udes pop­u­lated news feeds on World Envir­on­ment Day, “GT” found real news from real places in the real world and stayed pos­it­ive … Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism.  This week […]

Read More Good news in tourism May 31 to Jun 6, 2020

Online courses by The Centre for Responsible Tourism Singapore: ‘Reinventing tourism learning’

June 4, 2020
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Centre for Responsible Tourism Singapore logo and two images

“GT” Friend Kev­in Phun of new “GT” Part­ner The Centre for Respons­ible Tour­ism Singa­pore (CRTS) has developed a series of short online courses for aspir­ing respons­ible tour­ism prac­ti­tion­ers — or any­one inter­ested in the sub­ject — to estab­lish a found­a­tion of know­ledge and a frame­work for think­ing about vari­ous aspects of respons­ible tour­ism.  “GT” 20% dis­count coupon: GTB-20-OFF Courses […]

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