“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.

Coalition promotes Child Safe Tourism in Myanmar

September 21, 2017
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Myanmar coalition promotes Child Safe Tourism

While the world observes the troubles between the Rohingya and their neigh­bours in Myan­mar, the Uni­on’s tour­ism min­istry and the Myan­mar Respons­ible Tour­ism Insti­tute (MRTI) are work­ing with UNICEF to pro­mote Child Safe Tour­ism. Accord­ing to the Min­istry of Hotels and Tour­ism (MoHT), since July 31: “… sur­vey­ing and hold­ing aware­ness cam­paigns are being under­taken in […]

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“Historical moment” as tourism ethics code becomes a convention

September 16, 2017

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The mem­ber states of the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) have approved the UNWTO Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Tour­ism Eth­ics. This is based on the Glob­al Code of Eth­ics for Tour­ism (PDF 787 KB) and is, accord­ing to a UNWTO press release upon which this post is based, the first inter­na­tion­al con­ven­tion ini­ti­ated by the UNWTO. […]

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Pantanal jaguar ecotourists willing to compensate ranchers for stock losses

September 14, 2017

Wildlife ecotourists willing to compensate ranchers

Most wild­life eco­tour­ists in the Pantanal region of South Amer­ica say they are will­ing to com­pensate cattle ranch­ers for live­stock taken by wild jag­uars. This is accord­ing to a new study, “The num­bers of the beast: Valu­ation of jag­uar (Pan­thera onca) tour­ism and cattle depred­a­tion in the Brazili­an Pantanal”, by Fernando R. Tor­tato, Thi­ago J. Izzo, […]

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Afghan travel agent helps women study abroad

September 13, 2017

Afghan travel agent is giving Afghani women educational and career opportunities abroad

An Afghan travel entre­pren­eur is hop­ing to inspire a new gen­er­a­tion of women by using her agency to help female stu­dents secure places at uni­ver­sit­ies in Tur­key, Rus­sia and Europe and then break into male-dom­in­ated careers. Mar­jana Sadi (pic­tured above), 21, set up Banoo Travel Agency in a mar­ket in cent­ral Kabul nearly a year […]

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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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