“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.

Over-tourism alarm bells for Bangladesh’s only coral island

August 22, 2017

Over-tourism in Bangladesh yet UNWTO says tourism growth is not the enemy.

Over-pop­u­la­­tion may be a word more likely to spring to mind than over-tour­ism when one thinks of Bangladesh. How­ever, as repor­ted in the Dhaka Tribune, a Bangladesh Depart­ment of Envir­on­ment (DoE) report says unplanned tour­ism lead­ing to over-tour­ism, mar­ine pol­lu­tion, and illeg­al struc­tures are pos­ing ser­i­ous threats to the biod­iversity of Bangladesh’s only cor­al island. […]

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Oman ecotourism an investment target

August 15, 2017

Oman ecotourism a target for investment

Oman eco­tour­ism is set to receive an injec­tion of devel­op­ment funds after the Min­istry of Envir­on­ment and Cli­mate Affairs (MECA) signed a memor­andum of under­stand­ing with the Min­istry of Tour­ism (MoT) to devel­op eco­tour­ism in nature reserves. A com­mit­tee involving MECA and MoT was formed earli­er this year to pre­pare strategies and plans for the […]

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Involving indigenous people benefits business, environment: UN expert

August 10, 2017

indigenous tourism development

Gov­ern­ments too often sidestep indi­gen­ous people when approv­ing new infra­struc­ture pro­jects on their land, ignor­ing the poten­tial for sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic growth and envir­on­­ment­ally-friendly devel­op­ment, a UN expert said on Tues­day. A land­mark United Nations declar­a­tion adop­ted 10 years ago declared author­it­ies should seek con­sent from indi­gen­ous people before start­ing new infra­struc­ture pro­jects like mines and dams. […]

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Residents, authorities, hoteliers grapple with global sharing economy

August 9, 2017

World tourism and the sharing economy

Protests by res­id­ents and lob­by­ing by hoteliers are for­cing gov­ern­ments glob­ally to toughen their stance on the accom­mod­a­tion shar­ing eco­nomy. Spain’s Balear­ic Islands has announced it will pen­al­ise land­lords for illeg­ally rent­ing apart­ments to tour­ists with fines of up to 40,000 euros (~US$47,000). Rent­ing apart­ments without a licence was banned in the Balear­ic Islands in […]

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Botswana boards the bandwagon of ecotourism & sustainable tourism

August 4, 2017

Rifai & Muohi discuss training and sustainable tourism Botswana

Bot­swana has no choice but to prac­tice eco­tour­ism and sus­tain­able tour­ism, accord­ing to Uni­ver­sity of Bot­swana Act­ing Vice Chan­cel­lor Prof Kgo­motso Moahi who was speak­ing at a pub­lic lec­ture organ­ised by the Bot­swana Tour­ism Organ­isa­tion and the Uni­ver­sity of Bot­swana (UB). UNWTO Sec­ret­ary Gen­er­al Dr Taleb Rifai was the guest speak­er at the July 26 […]

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Vatican proclaims support for sustainable tourism “with a human touch”

August 3, 2017

Vatican sustainable tourism

The Vat­ic­an, via its Cath­ol­ic News Agency, has pro­claimed its sup­port for respons­ible travel and sus­tain­able tour­ism by urging tour­ists to “remem­ber the human per­son and the envir­on­ment in their travels, treat­ing people and things with respect”. Car­din­al Peter Turk­son wrote: “Hol­i­day time can­not be a pre­text either for irre­spons­ib­il­ity or for exploit­a­tion: in fact, […]

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