“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.

Join Operation Recuperation to give healthcare workers a well-deserved break post-COVID-19

April 23, 2020

Image by Tumisu (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/coronavirus-doctor-research-fight-4944680/

Travel blog­ger Rachel Sher­wood is col­lect­ing pledges from accom­mod­a­tion pro­viders and second home own­ers to give health­care work­ers on the front lines of the coronavir­us SARS-CoV­­‑2 fight a well-deserved break. It’s called Oper­a­tion Recu­per­a­tion. Can you gift a future stay in your hotel or second home to our health­care work­ers? I’m hop­ing the answer is […]

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Good news in tourism April 12 – 18, 2020

April 19, 2020

Recently taken in by the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation (GTAEF) because she and her mahout are unemployed, Boon Rod is among the many elephants affected by the coronavirus-induced tourism crisis. Image source GTAEF. https://www.helpingelephants.org/boonrod/

Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the almost-fam­ous pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism. “This “Good news” stuff is sooo cool … bet­ter than their early stuff. It’s only a mat­ter of time before “Good Tour­ism” goes main­stream, though …” “Bro! Relaaaaax … “GT” […]

Read More Good news in tourism April 12 – 18, 2020
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Good news in tourism April 5 – 11, 2020

April 12, 2020

Lake Wakatipu, near Queenstown New Zealand. By Rex Boggs (CC BY-ND 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/rexboggs5/29407295502

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! Ser­i­ously. Are host com­munit­ies the vac­cine against over­tour­ism? If they are indeed taken ser­i­ously by poli­cy­makers then host com­munit­ies must surely offer pro­tec­tion against over­tour­ism and its asso­ci­ated ills. […]

Read More Good news in tourism April 5 – 11, 2020
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Good news in tourism Mar 29 to Apr 4, 2020

April 5, 2020

Downtown Seattle, Washington state, USA at sunset. By Tiffany Von Arnim (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/tiffany98101/15623134190

With insights rep­res­ent­ing the small, the medi­um, and the large; the private, the pub­lic, and the PPP; those who care about profit and those who are not-for-profit; received wis­dom and het­ero­dox views; The “Good Tour­ism” Blog is a truly inclus­ive plat­form for the travel & tour­ism industry as it grapples with respons­ib­il­it­ies, dreams of sustainability, […]

Read More Good news in tourism Mar 29 to Apr 4, 2020
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Good news in tourism March 22 – 28, 2020

March 29, 2020

A masked and gloved couple in love at the 2010 Carnival of Venice. By Frank Kovalchek (CC BY 2.0) via Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Venice#/media/File:Venice_Carnival_-_Masked_Lovers_(2010).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! “GT” stuff first (scroll down to skip): The “Good Tour­ism” Blog will push through this COVID-19 crisis, bring­ing you the usu­al links to pos­it­ive industry news and ideas via “Good […]

Read More Good news in tourism March 22 – 28, 2020
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Good news in tourism March 15 – 21, 2020

March 22, 2020

Home to port, Luang Prabang, Laos. Image by David Gillbanks,

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! “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work says tour­ism “can walk and chew gum at the same time” when it comes to deal­ing with COVID-19 and aspir­ing to SUNx’s […]

Read More Good news in tourism March 15 – 21, 2020
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