“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.

Palau tackles over-tourism with responsible tourism

September 12, 2017

Palau tackles over-tourism via responsible tourism and sustainable tourism. Palau. By LuxTonnerre (CC BY 2.0) via Wikimedia.

The UNWTO & WTM Min­is­ters’ Sum­mit will debate over-tour­ism, Novem­ber 7, at WTM Lon­don 2017. While seni­or fig­ures pre­pare their talk­ing points, the Microne­sian archipelago of Palau is mak­ing moves now to com­bat the phe­nomen­on. Accord­ing to Repub­lic of Palau Pres­id­ent Tommy E Remen­gasau, Jr, in his intro­duct­ory mes­sage for the Palau Respons­ible Tour­ism Policy […]

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COMESA tourism, wildlife, heritage handbook launched

September 8, 2017

COMESA tourism, wildlife, heritage handbook launched

The Com­mon Mar­ket for East­ern & South­ern Africa (COMESA) launched The COMESA Tour­ism & Wild­life Her­it­age Hand­book; Single Mar­ket – Count­less des­tin­a­tions at the 41st World Tour­ism Con­fer­ence held in Kigali, Rwanda. The hand­book is part of the COMESA Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Devel­op­ment Stra­tegic Frame­work, which has been recog­nised by mem­ber states as a mod­el to […]

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Will a tax incentive boost inclusive tourism in the Philippines?

September 7, 2017

inclusive tourism philippines

The Phil­ip­pines’ old­est and largest com­mer­cial con­glom­er­ate, Ayala Cor­por­a­tion, has revealed its interest in inclus­ive tour­ism to tap into a tax incent­ive offered by the Phil­ip­pines gov­ern­ment. On the side­lines of the ASEAN Inclus­ive Busi­ness Sum­mit in Manila yes­ter­day, Ayala Corp Man­aging Dir­ect­or Paolo Bor­romeo told Busi­ness Mir­ror that his com­pany would look into inclusive […]

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South Pacific, UNDP “green tourism” partnership

September 5, 2017

South Pacific, UNDP “green tourism” partnership

South Pacific Tour­ism Organ­isa­tion (SPTO) and the United Nations Devel­op­ment Pro­gramme (UNDP) have partnered to pro­mote “green tour­ism” in the South Pacific. A Let­ter of Agree­ment (LOA) was signed between the two agen­cies in Suva, Fiji last week out­lining a com­mit­ment to “take respons­ible approaches through energy, water and waste reduc­tion” and to “con­trib­ute to […]

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Whale shark tracking shows upside for Ningaloo ecotourism industry

August 31, 2017

Whale shark tourism. Whale shark Ningaloo ecotourism Western Australia. Source: ECOCEAN

Swim­ming with whale sharks could become a year-round eco­tour­ism activ­ity for the Nin­ga­loo Coast region of West­ern Aus­tralia (WA), accord­ing to ECOCEAN research sci­ent­ist Sam­antha Reyn­olds. By emphas­ising the poten­tial for an eco­nom­ic activ­ity, the Phys.org story is a refresh­ing hint at how an envir­on­ment­al­ist cause can ally with sci­ence and the tour­ism industry. Reynolds […]

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Tourism growth is not the enemy: UNWTO boss

August 27, 2017

Tourism growth is not the enemy according to UNWTO Secretary General Taleb Rifai

In response to an increas­ing num­ber of reports about “tour­ism-pho­­bia”, the the World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO), August 15, released an opin­ion piece by its Sec­ret­ary Gen­er­al, Taleb Rifai, arguing that tour­ism growth is not the enemy; it’s how we man­age it that counts. As an eco­nom­ic activ­ity, travel and tour­ism is rel­at­ively young; yet it […]

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