“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, 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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Climate change & air travel: Why we have a responsibility to tourism-dependent countries

August 7, 2019

Passenger jet taking off at dusk with a silhouetted man watching it leave

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. […]

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Rethinking tourism so that locals can benefit from hosting visitors

May 25, 2019

Anti-tourism, pro-refugee graffiti in Coimbra, Portugal. By Tm (CC BY 2.0) via Wikimedia. GT cropped and enhanced it.

Writ­ing for The Con­ver­sa­tion, Freya Hig­­gins-Des­­bio­lles of the Uni­ver­sity of South Aus­tralia points to examples of how host com­munit­ies have regained some con­trol of their tour­ism assets. Tour­ism today has a prob­lem and needs an entire rethink. Pun­dits are debat­ing over­tour­ism, peak tour­ism and tour­is­mpho­bia. Cit­ies such as Bar­celona, Venice and Dubrovnik are wit­ness­ing a […]

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Sustainable rural tourism project in Georgia seeks crowdfunding support

May 21, 2019

A distant view. Kazbegi, Georgia. Photo credit Richard Shepard / SRDI.

With annu­al vis­it­or arrivals to Geor­gia expec­ted to more than double the pop­u­la­tion of the former Soviet repub­lic, “Good Tour­ism” Insights con­trib­ut­or Richard Shep­ard is work­ing to mit­ig­ate the neg­at­ive effects of over­tour­ism in rur­al com­munit­ies. Tour­ism in Geor­gia is approach­ing 8 mil­lion vis­it­ors annu­ally and is pro­jec­ted to reach 11 mil­lion in a few […]

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