“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.

SUN calls for “moon-shot” effort by aviation sector to be zero-carbon by 2050

January 24, 2020

sunx calls for decarbonisation moon-shot by aviation

“Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work — has again called for a “moon-shot” effort by the avi­ation and air trans­port sec­tor to be zero-car­­bon by 2050.  Dur­ing FITUR, the inter­na­tion­al tour­ism fair in Mad­rid, SUNx Co-Founder Geof­frey Lip­man said that the avi­ation sector’s decar­bon­isa­tion pledge — for 50% of 2005 levels — was now more than a dec­ade old and was […]

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Good news in tourism January 12 – 18, 2020

January 19, 2020

Tenby Harbour, Pembrokeshire, Wales by Richardjo53 (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/richardjo53/7515932720/in/photostream/

The travel & tour­ism industry is not to blame for all the world’s prob­lems, but it can and should and does assume some respons­ib­il­ity for them. And often helps solves them. That is why you should read “Good news in tour­ism” and share it with your col­leagues and friends. Pub­lished on Sunday to be ready […]

Read More Good news in tourism January 12 – 18, 2020
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Her beauty and her terror … The wide brown land, Australia, is open for business

January 14, 2020

Epicormic regrowth from the base of a Eucalyptus tree, four months after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Strathewen, Victoria. Pic by Robert Kerton, CSIRO (CC BY 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/CSIRO_ScienceImage_10408_Eucalypt_regrowth_after_Black_Saturday_bushfires.jpg

“The best way to sup­port Aus­tralia, Aus­trali­an com­munit­ies, and the tour­ism sec­tor is to keep vis­it­ing,” says Tour­ism Aus­tralia on its bush­fire inform­a­tion resources web page. “If you can­not travel to an affected area due to bush­fires, one of the many ways to help includes res­chedul­ing instead of can­celing …”  If you didn’t already know, your […]

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Good news in tourism January 5 – 11, 2020

January 12, 2020

Community-based tourism entrepreneurship training near Kibale National Park in Uganda. Image supplied by James Nadiope.

Wel­come to The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s weekly remind­er — if you need it — that as a tour­ism stake­hold­er YOU are NOT bad! You are prob­ably pretty good, actu­ally; one of the many tour­ism industry people or trav­el­lers doing what you know to be good while know­ing there is more to know to be bet­ter. Pub­lished on Sunday to […]

Read More Good news in tourism January 5 – 11, 2020
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It’s not ‘no’. It’s ‘know’. A travel tip for good tourists and responsible travellers

January 9, 2020
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It's not 'no'. It's 'know.' A "Good Tourism" travel tip; travel advice for good tourists & responsible travellers.

How can one be a good tour­ist and a respons­ible trav­el­ler?  An easy-to-remem­ber rhyme might help; one that acknow­ledges that there is always more to know and there­fore nev­er gets old.  What do you think about this as a catch-all travel tip or philo­sophy for trav­el­lers? Update, June 2021: If you clicked over from The “GT” […]

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Good news in tourism Dec 28, 2019 to Jan 4, 2020

January 5, 2020

Featured image: West Indian manatee resting at Three Sisters Springs, Crystal River, Florida, USA. A school of mangrove snapper enjoy the shade. By Keith Ramos and the US Fish & Wildlife Service (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwshq/7636814558

Wel­come to 2020 and Earth’s most fun sum­mary of a week of good news in travel & tour­ism. Pub­lished on Sunday to be ready on Monday, it’s the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a work­ing week (and year); a remind­er that the tour­ism industry, tour­ism people, and trav­el­lers can be so very good!  In no […]

Read More Good news in tourism Dec 28, 2019 to Jan 4, 2020
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