“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.

Most want to do the right thing for sustainable tourism. What is it?

March 3, 2019
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Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) CEO Randy Durband. Image: World Travel & Tourism Council (CC BY 2.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Randy_Durband,_CEO_Global_Sustainable_Tourism_Council_(26228765681).jpg

In two sen­tences the CEO of the Glob­al Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Coun­cil (GSTC) per­fectly summed up the com­mu­nic­a­tions oppor­tun­ity and chal­lenge facing sus­tain­ab­il­ity advoc­ates.  “Most people want to do the right thing. They just need to know what the right thing is.” Randy Durb­and said this dur­ing the theme-set­t­ing plen­ary ses­sion on the open­ing day of the […]

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Most elephant tourism activities are “not bad” in moderation: Experts

February 28, 2019

ACEWG appears to be tackling the valid concerns around elephant tourism head-on. Image: ACEWG

If there was a defin­it­ive point to come out of the ses­sion on ele­phant tour­ism at the 2019 Glob­al Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Coun­cil (GSTC) Asia-Pacific Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Con­fer­ence today in Chi­ang Mai, it would be that there are no defin­it­ive points. Exactly what con­sti­tutes appro­pri­ate, prag­mat­ic stand­ards for ele­phant wel­fare is yet to be determ­ined. Given […]

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Thailand Tourism Minister Weerasak props up GSTC conference opening

February 28, 2019

Thailand Tourism Minister Weerasak Kowsurat

HE Weer­a­sak Kowsur­at, Thail­and’s Min­is­ter of Tour­ism and Sport brought props to his open­ing speech for the 2019 Glob­al Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Coun­cil (GSTC) Asia-Pacific Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Con­fer­ence today in Chi­ang Mai. Des­pite micro­phone issues break­ing his flow, Mr Weer­a­sak used the props to make his point. He brought to the podi­um a bag made from fishing […]

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“Good Tourism” supports the second World Heritage mini-conference

February 25, 2019

Lamington blue spiny crayfish encountered on the Coomera circuit walking track in the Binna Burra section Lamington National Park in Queensland, Australia. Photo by Tatters (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr. "GT" cropped and enhanced the image. https://www.flickr.com/photos/tgerus/12250342224/in/photostream/

UPDATE (May 16, 2019). The organ­isers have decided to post­pone the planned two-day mini-con­­fer­­ence at Binna Burra Lodge in Octo­ber 2019 and make it a three-day event in 2020 — from Tues­day, Octo­ber 13 to Thursday, Octo­ber 15. The first World Her­­it­age-themed mini-con­­fer­­ence took place over three days at the Binna Burra Lodge in Octo­ber 2018.  The top­ic was ‘Man­aging the growth of […]

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Vale Ian Oelrichs, “strategic thinker & visionary”

February 25, 2019
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Endemic tourism concept co-creator, Ian Oelrichs, passed away Feb 24, 2019

Co-cre­at­or of the concept of “endem­ic tour­ism”, Ian Oel­richs OAM passed away Feb­ru­ary 24, 2019.  A land­scape archi­tect and urb­an design­er by trade, Mr Oel­richs had more than 40 years of exper­i­ence in devel­op­ment, nat­ur­al resource man­age­ment, and tour­ism. (Linked­In.) In 2011 Mr Oel­richs received the Medal of the Order of Aus­tralia (OAM) hon­our for his […]

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Former FARC rebels turn ecotourism guides, but peace remains fragile

February 22, 2019
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Colombia has its ecotourism treasures such as the Caño Cristales waterfall. Image by Mario Carvajal (CC BY 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CA%C3%91O_CRISTALES,_SECTOR_LOS_OCHOS_(COLOMBIA).jpg

About 30 of the estim­ated 12,000 FARC mem­bers demo­bil­ised under a peace accord with Colom­bi­a’s gov­ern­ment have chosen eco­tour­ism as a path to rein­teg­ra­tion. The travel & tour­ism industry would do well to sup­port them. Full story by Ana­stas­ia Molo­ney writ­ing for the Thom­son Reu­ters Found­a­tion. As a former rebel fight­er, Ximena Cruz used to […]

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