“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.

Meanwhile, a young couple promotes authentic experiences

July 19, 2017

overtourism Venice

UNESCO and the World Bank signed a new MoU about cit­ies last week to “advance sus­tain­able devel­op­ment by invest­ing in cul­ture, urb­an devel­op­ment, and resi­li­ence in an integ­rated man­ner”. As the con­sult­ants and spin doc­tors of the world lick their lips — and insti­tu­tion­al book­shelves and cloud serv­ers standby to sup­ply stor­age for their expens­ive out­put — in Venice […]

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UNESCO, World Bank commit to urban development, culture, resilience

July 19, 2017

Urban cultural heritage and sustainable tourism. UNESCO, World Bank sign MoU

Recog­nising that cul­tur­al her­it­age and sus­tain­able tour­ism have become “key eco­nom­ic drivers for poverty reduc­tion and job cre­ation”, UNESCO and the World Bank signed a new Memor­andum of Under­stand­ing (MoU) last week to rein­vig­or­ate their joint com­mit­ment to “advance sus­tain­able devel­op­ment by invest­ing in cul­ture, urb­an devel­op­ment, and resi­li­ence in an integ­rated man­ner”. Irina Bokova, Director-General […]

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Could climate change ground a third of aircraft?

July 17, 2017

Climate change airlines. Aerial view of Victorville Airport's aircraft boneyard, Victorville, California, USA. By Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A2009-0727-CA-VictorvilleBoneyard.jpgax

More fre­quent heat waves due to glob­al warm­ing may ground up to a third of air­planes world­wide in dec­ades to come with some air­ports in New York and Dubai likely to be hard hit, a study showed on Thursday. Air­lines may increas­ingly be forced to cut their loads of pas­sen­gers, cargo or fuel in order […]

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Caribbean sustainable tourism efforts need to step up

July 13, 2017

Caribbean sustainable tourism. Sunset on Manzanillo beach, Margarita island, Venezuela. By Hector Darío, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASunset%40Manzanillo_Beach%2C_Margarita_Island%2C_Venezuela.JPG

The Carib­bean region’s sus­tain­able tour­ism efforts need to step up after mem­bers of the Asso­ci­ation of Carib­bean States (ACS) this week recog­nised 2017 as the Inter­na­tion­al Year of Sus­tain­able Tour­ism for Devel­op­ment and prom­ised to empower com­munity lead­ers to con­trib­ute pos­it­ively to loc­al and region­al tour­ist products. Accord­ing to a Tele­SUR report, ACS Sec­ret­ary-Gen­er­­al Dr […]

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Spanish airline Iberia to end pregnancy tests as part of recruitment

July 13, 2017

Inclusive tourism Spain. Iberia Airbus A321-211 "EC-ILP" and British Airways Airbus A320-211 "G-Busk" in October 2010, before the airlines' 2011 merger. Source: Curimedia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAirbus_A321_Iberia_%26_A320_British_Airways_(5047661247).jpg

Span­ish air­line Iber­ia is to stop requir­ing women to take a preg­nancy test as part of its recruit­ment pro­cess, it said in a state­ment on its web­site. A preg­nancy test, which was a routine part of the med­ic­al exam­in­a­tion that poten­tial female recruits had to under­go, will be stopped, the air­line said. “We will no longer […]

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Lynx between a species’ reintroduction & ecotourism?

July 11, 2017

Species reintroduction ecotourism. Eurasian lynx in winter coat. By Tom Bech via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/viatorius/8603098728

The rein­tro­duc­tion of the Euras­i­an lynx into European coun­tries has res­ul­ted in new indus­tries such as wild­life tour­ism and eco­tour­ism; “breath­ing new eco­nom­ic life into remote rur­al com­munit­ies”. So says the Lynx UK Trust, which last week updated stake­hold­ers on its pro­posed tri­al rein­tro­duc­tion of the Euras­i­an lynx to the Kield­er Forest of Northum­ber­land in […]

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