“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.

World Bank to target support for PNG community-based tourism

October 15, 2017

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The World Bank’s upcom­ing US$20 mil­lion Tour­ism Sec­tor Devel­op­ment Pro­ject in Pap­ua New Guinea (PNG) will include “tar­geted sup­port for com­munity-led micro-enter­­­prises to cre­ate jobs, espe­cially for women”. The pro­ject will work with PNG gov­ern­ment and industry play­ers on an “integ­rated approach to tour­ism” in the provinces of East New Bri­tain and Mil­ne Bay and will […]

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Civita di Bagnoregio, the tourism town on the edge of extinction

October 9, 2017

Tourism town on the edge of survival Civita di Bagnoregio. By evondue via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/en/civita-di-bagnoregio-latium-2286541/

Since becom­ing the first Itali­an town to charge an entry fee, tour­ist num­bers to Civ­ita di Bagnore­gio have exploded from 40,000 annu­ally four years ago to a fore­cast 850,000 this year. In 2017, the hill-top ham­let will “wel­come” vis­it­ors at a ratio of 85,000 to one full-time res­id­ent. Sign­posted as “Civ­ita, The Town That Is […]

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Nigeria tourism’s squandered opportunities

October 9, 2017
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Nigeria tourism perhaps shoud be red-faced like this rainbow agama

In an op-ed for This Day, Kunle Aderinok­un (Asso­ci­ate Edit­or) and Demola Ojo (Edit­or and travel writer) write about the reas­ons tour­ism in the world’s sev­enth most pop­u­lous nation could be, should be an eco­nom­ic gold­mine. While the excerpt below focuses on Niger­ia tour­ism, the writers also dis­cuss squandered oppor­tun­it­ies in agri­cul­ture, oil, min­ing, and […]

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From tourism to coffee, young Thais blend profit with social good

October 7, 2017

Young Thais like Aliza blend profit with social good, from tourism to coffee

Six years ago, Som­sak “Pai” Boonkam drew up a plan with two vil­lages in north­ern Thai­l­and for tour­ists to stay with loc­al fam­il­ies and immerse them­selves in hill-tribe cul­ture. The aim was for the vil­la­gers to see some fin­an­cial bene­fit from their coun­try’s multi-bil­lion-dol­lar tour­ism industry. Pai was sure it would be a hit with […]

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Thailand to help neighbours with community-based tourism

October 6, 2017

Thailand to offer CBT help to Laos, Cambodia, Bhutan leveraging examples such as Ban Rai Kong Khing

Thail­and’s Des­ig­nated Areas for Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Admin­is­tra­tion (DASTA) has agreed to help devel­op com­munity-based tour­ism (CBT) in Laos, Cam­bod­ia, and, pos­sibly, Bhutan. Accord­ing to the Bangkok Post, “this will be the first time the three coun­tries are work­ing closely with Thai­l­and spe­cific­ally on CBT devel­op­ment, after join­ing forces on cross-bor­der tour­ism, logist­ics and con­nectiv­ity, and […]

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#TravelEnjoyRespect video: “Beyond the great horizon”

October 3, 2017

#TravelEnjoyRespect video "Beyond the great horizon"

The Nation­al Academy of Arts, Cul­ture and Her­it­age (ASWARA), Malay­sia has released a video pro­mot­ing #TravelEn­joyRe­spect to help con­vey the mes­sage of how tour­ism can con­trib­ute to the 2030 Agenda for Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment and the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (SDGs). The 3.5‑minute music video (embed­ded below) was the concept of Pacific Asia Tour­ism Man­aging Dir­ect­or Steve […]

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