“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 May 24 – 30, 2020

May 31, 2020

Welcome. We are open. By Ketut Subiyanto (CC0) via Pexels. https://www.pexels.com/photo/wooden-welcome-signage-4473400/

… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism. And go! Import­ant “Good Tour­ism” (“GT”) stuff first:  How does a spe­cial forces sol­dier become a pro­ponent and awardee for sin­cerely respons­ible tour­ism? In a “GT” Insight […]

Read More Good news in tourism May 24 – 30, 2020

Good news in tourism May 17 – 23, 2020

May 24, 2020

Featured image (top of post): Vietnam landscape. Image (CC0) via pxfuel. https://www.pxfuel.com/en/free-photo-xzhgw

… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism. And go! Import­ant “Good Tour­ism” (“GT”) stuff first:  For a truly sus­tain­able tour­ism industry to have a chance, des­tin­a­tions and host com­munit­ies must use the coronavir­us crisis […]

Read More Good news in tourism May 17 – 23, 2020

Good news in tourism May 10 – 16, 2020

May 17, 2020
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Temples and the golden sun. Myanmar. By 12019 via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/myanmar-burma-landscape-sunrise-2494826/

… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism. And go! Import­ant “Good Tour­ism” (“GT”) stuff first:  In a fresh “GT” Insight pub­lished on Tues­day, respons­ible tour­ism and eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment spe­cial­ist Kev­in Phun took a peek […]

Read More Good news in tourism May 10 – 16, 2020

Good news in tourism May 3 – 9, 2020

May 10, 2020

Greens Pool, William Bay National Park, Shire of Denmark, Western Australia. Image by BaroBert (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia. "GT" cropped it. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greens_Pool,_William_Bay,_Denmark_WA.jpg

Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism. And go! Import­ant “GT” stuff first:  The expres­sion “an ele­phant in the room” means an uncom­fort­able truth we can­not ignore. With tour­ism cash flows stemmed, many Asi­an ele­phants and their mahouts in […]

Read More Good news in tourism May 3 – 9, 2020

Elephant health experts seek emergency funds for unemployed tourism elephants


Dr Sarisa Klinhom (L) & Dr Tittaya Janyamethakul (R) attend to Mae Noi in Thailand. Image supplied by author.

The expres­sion “an ele­phant in the room” means an uncom­fort­able truth we can­not ignore. With tour­ism cash flows stemmed, many Asi­an ele­phants and their mahouts in Thai­l­and and else­where are in deep trouble. Hol­lis Bur­b­ank­-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al tells us why that’s the case and how we can help. COVID-19 has suddenly […]

Read More Elephant health experts seek emergency funds for unemployed tourism elephants

Good news in tourism Apr 26 to May 2, 2020

May 3, 2020

Reeth, Yorkshire, England. By Emphyrio (CC0) via Pixabay.

Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism. And go! Your cor­res­pond­ent had a scare Monday night when news came through that his hero, his fath­er, had been rushed to hos­pit­al in Perth with a cab­in­et of nasty symptoms. […]

Read More Good news in tourism Apr 26 to May 2, 2020