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“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.
Welcome to The “Good Tourism” Blog’s first summary of and links to a week of good news and quirkiness in the world of travel & tourism. Published on Sunday to be ready on Monday morning, it’s the perfect positive start to a working week in travel & tourism! Share it with your colleagues. In no […]
Read More Good news in tourism December 1 – 7, 2019
The World Tourism Association for Culture & Heritage (WTACH) is the first “Good Tourism” Insight Partner. As a “GT” Insight Partner, WTACH will inspire deeper industry-wide conversations around culture & heritage tourism. WTACH will regularly identify and invite an opinion or practice leader working in the area of culture & heritage tourism to write a […]
Read More Culture & heritage focus for first “Good Tourism” Insight Partnership
The SUNx (“Strong Universal Network”) Program has issued its first annual “Climate Friendly Travel – Ambition Report”. Prepared on the sidelines of the September UN General Assembly and in collaboration with the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) “to support a Climate Neutral Travel & Tourism Sector by 2050”, the document was made available to […]
Read More SUN, WTTC report strong on “existential climate crisis” & tourism’s response
A two-pronged campaign to reduce domestic consumer and foreign traveller demand for ivory and ivory products launched in Bangkok, Thailand yesterday. While much of the focus of the launch event was on the domestic consumer campaign and the celebrity influencers who are the faces of it, of greatest relevance to the tourism industry is the […]
Read More Thailand says “No” to ivory in two-tusked campaign funded by USAID
Report by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, August 9, 2019. As millions of Muslims don robes and flock to Mecca for haj, a small counter movement to boycott the pilgrimage in protest at Saudi Arabia’s politics has won limited support online. Although the numbers are dwarfed by the 1.8 million who have arrived in Mecca for Friday’s […]
Read More Politics v pilgrimage: some Muslims call for Saudi haj boycott
Writing for The Conversation, Tom Baum of the University of Strathclyde discusses the responsibility borne by rich-world nations — and individual travellers — for poor countries’ “neo-colonial dependence” on tourism and air travel. Few would deny the threat to our planet posed by climate change, or the role that humans have played in the degradation of the natural environment. […]
Read More Climate change & air travel: Why we have a responsibility to tourism-dependent countries