“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.

Infrastructure in focus for new “Good Tourism” Insight Partnership

December 9, 2019

Testing the new water pump at Kakoi village

Second Look World­wide is the latest “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner.  As a “GT” Insight Part­ner, Second Look World­wide will inspire deep­er, broad­er, and more impact­ful industry-wide con­ver­sa­tions around com­munity infra­struc­ture devel­op­ment in emer­ging and estab­lished des­tin­a­tions.  To that end, the not-for-profit will reg­u­larly identi­fy and invite an opin­ion or prac­tice lead­er work­ing in host community […]

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Good news in tourism December 1 – 7, 2019

December 8, 2019

Inuksuk Point (Inuksugalait, “where there are many Inuksuit“), Foxe Peninsula (Baffin Island), Nunavut, Canada. By Ansgar Walk - photo taken by Ansgar Walk (CC BY-SA 2.5) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=602815

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 […]

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Culture & heritage focus for first “Good Tourism” Insight Partnership

November 21, 2019

Image by Anonymous Traveller from Pixabay

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 […]

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SUN, WTTC report strong on “existential climate crisis” & tourism’s response

October 2, 2019

cft ambitions report 2019 snip

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 […]

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Thailand says “No” to ivory in two-tusked campaign funded by USAID

September 21, 2019

Cindy Bishop featured alongside Thai writing with the message "beautiful without ivory"

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 […]

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Politics v pilgrimage: some Muslims call for Saudi haj boycott

August 9, 2019

Pilgrim in supplication at the Sacred Mosque, Mecca, Saudi Arabia

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 […]

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