“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.

Five insights that could move tourism closer to sustainability: Lecturer

February 21, 2019

insights sustainable toursm destination Rotorua Hotpool New Zealand Thermal Wonderland

Jason Paul Mika of Mas­sey Uni­ver­sity shares five insights on the role of tour­ism in sus­tain­able devel­op­ment: Tour­ism is New Zealand’s biggest export earner, con­trib­ut­ing 21% of for­eign exchange earn­ings. The latest data show tour­ists added NZ$39.1 bil­lion to the eco­nomy and the industry has seen a 44% increase over the past five years. But […]

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Balearic Islands’ new climate change law to reduce reliance on tourism

February 13, 2019

Popular tourism beach Cala Anguilla, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Image by lapping via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/en/cala-anguila-mallorca-1998320/

Spain’s Balear­ic Islands has approved a cli­mate change law that com­mits the pop­u­lar tour­ism des­tin­a­tion to sourcing all its energy from renew­ables by 2050. Balear­ic Islands pres­id­ent Fran­cina Armen­gol said the new law was “an oppor­tun­ity to rein­force our brand as a sus­tain­able des­tin­a­tion”. Balear­ic Islands energy min­is­ter Marc Pons reck­ons the law is part of […]

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Businesses think they’re on top of carbon risk, but tourism destinations have barely a clue: Professor

February 10, 2019

Tourism accounts for approximately 8% of emissions, much of it from planes ... A Qantas Boeing 747-400 flying at approximately 11,000 metres over Starbeyevo in Moscow, May 2010. By Sergey Kustov http://www.airliners.net/photo/Qantas/Boeing-747-438/1729381/L/ (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16496086

Less energy- and car­­bon-intens­ive slow travel could be the future of tour­ism in far-flung des­tin­a­tions, accord­ing to Susanne Beck­en of Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity. The dir­ect­ors of most Aus­trali­an com­pan­ies are well aware of the impact of car­bon emis­sions, not only on the envir­on­ment but also on their own firms as emis­­sions-intens­ive indus­tries get lumbered with taxes […]

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We’re in the era of overtourism but there is a more sustainable way forward: Professor

February 7, 2019

Overtourism leads to overcrowding. What to do? Bans? Entrance fees? (Image by pierrelaurentdurantin via Pixabay cropped and enhanced by "GT".) https://pixabay.com/en/beach-world-sun-crowd-654641/

Over­tour­ism can be fixed or mit­ig­ated by tak­ing more ser­i­ously the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals, accord­ing to Regina Scheyvens of Mas­sey Uni­ver­sity. If you live in a tour­ist des­tin­a­tion, you might dread the hol­i­day inva­sion. Like­wise, dis­gruntled tour­ists com­plain about crowded and pol­luted beaches, nation­al parks or attrac­tions.  Over­tour­ism is now a ser­i­ous issue in many […]

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From smarter energy to less plastic, Caribbean resorts go green

February 6, 2019

Generic Caribbean tourism beach scene

At home in the United States, Ker­rie Spring­er takes pride in being envir­on­ment­ally con­scious. So when she booked a week’s get­away at the Bucuti and Tara Beach Resort in Aruba, she choose the “green stay” option, agree­ing to reuse her sheets and tow­els rather than have them changed each day. “You don’t do that at home, […]

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Leveraging your travel budget: A socially-responsible Siem Reap itinerary

August 29, 2018

If you are looking to visit the temples or interested in more rural tourism in Cambodia, consider a tour with Lavender Jeep Siem Reap

Siem Reap, Cam­bod­ia is an ever-grow­ing travel des­tin­a­tion. After years of gen­o­cide fol­lowed by 20 years of instabil­ity and civil war, the coun­try has sta­bil­ized and has become a darling of the ASEAN region, with a fast-grow­ing eco­nomy, bet­ter infra­struc­ture, and an over­all improve­ment in the human devel­op­ment index and qual­ity of life. The tour­ism economy […]

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