“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.

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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Minister raises racism at South Africa Tourism Month launch

July 31, 2017

South Africa tourism minister raised racism at tourism month launch. Meanwhile, the many races of South Africa are represented in the Nelson Mandela University Choir. Source: GovernmentZA https://www.flickr.com/photos/governmentza/35872724332/

An hol­ist­ic focus on the socioeco­nom­ic bene­fits of tour­ism to com­munit­ies is at the heart of South Africa Tour­ism Month, Septem­ber 2017, which was launched last week. “This is why it is so vital to encour­age South Afric­ans to travel around their own coun­try,” South Africa Min­is­ter of Tour­ism Tokoz­ile Xasa said. “Not only will they […]

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Caribbean tourism, fishing, farming bears brunt of climate change: CCCCC

July 29, 2017

Caribbean tourism climate change. Hurricane Felix

Small Carib­bean islands risk los­ing their entire way of life unless they urgently strengthen defences against a raft of future dis­asters, accord­ing to Ulric Trotz, deputy dir­ect­or at the Carib­bean Com­munity Cli­mate Change Centre (CCCCC). Fish­ing and farm­ing com­munit­ies liv­ing in coastal areas as well the tour­ism industry, which is vital for Carib­bean eco­nom­ies, often […]

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