“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.

Great Barrier Reef tourism reprieve but resorts in trouble

July 8, 2017

Great Barrier Reef tourism. A variety of colourful corals on Flynn Reef near Cairns. By Toby Hudson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11137678

Great Bar­ri­er Reef tour­ism oper­at­ors hope UNESCO’s decision not to list the nat­ur­al won­der “in danger” will reverse a drop in vis­it­or num­bers, accord­ing to a Cour­i­er Mail story. “UNESCO’s World Her­it­age Com­mit­tee endorsed Australia’s Reef 2050 plan to pro­tect the icon­ic asset, avoid­ing ­inter­na­tion­al embar­rass­ment for the $6.4 bil­lion-a-year tour­ist draw­card. “How­ever, the WHC […]

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Reunification or not, Cyprus tourism has lessons to learn

July 7, 2017

Cyprus tourism has lessons to learn reunification or not

“Talks to reuni­fy the divided island of Cyprus col­lapsed amid anger and recrim­in­a­tions in the early hours of Fri­day, mark­ing the end of a pro­cess seen as the most prom­ising in gen­er­a­tions to heal dec­ades of con­flict.” Thus repor­ted Reu­ters earli­er today. The col­lapsed talks in Switzer­land between Greek Cyp­ri­ot Pres­id­ent Nicos Ana­stas­i­ades and Turk­ish Cypriot […]

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Mission cells to power responsible tourism in Kerala

July 4, 2017

Kumarakom is a pioneer destination for responsible tourism in Kerala

Kerala’s Respons­ible Tour­ism Mis­sion will be up and run­ning by the end of this month (July 2017). Accord­ing to a news art­icle in The Times of India, the Indi­an state’s “ambi­tious” pro­gram aims to gen­er­ate more employ­ment and income in loc­al com­munit­ies without harm­ing the envir­on­ment. Under the Mis­sion, respons­ible tour­ism “cells” will be set up […]

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More shades of grey in elephant tourism

June 30, 2017
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More shades of grey in elephant tourism

Soon after The “Good Tour­ism” Blog shared a link to a “GT” Insight about ele­phant tour­ism to an eco­tour­ism industry Face­book group, the motiv­a­tion of con­trib­ut­or John Roberts was ques­tioned by an angry com­ment­at­or: “The fact that someone employed in the ele­phant rid­ing industry is writ­ing crit­ic­ally about the neg­at­ive impacts of Respons­ible Tour­ism on […]

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Conservationists “condemn” Philippines Tourism Sec’y for Coral World Park

June 29, 2017

Coral World Park and developments like it threaten vulnerable species, according to Philippines' conservationists. Image: Haribon

An alli­ance of loc­al con­ser­va­tion­ists have con­demned not only the pro­posed Cor­al World Park in Coron, Palawan but also Phil­ip­pines Tour­ism Sec­ret­ary Wanda Teo for her pub­lic declar­a­tion of sup­port for it. A state­ment from the Haribon Found­a­tion for the Con­ser­va­tion of Nat­ur­al Resources and PAMANA Ka Sa Pilip­i­nas, a net­work of com­munity-based mar­ine pro­tec­ted area […]

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Three UN bosses offer four tips to become a sustainable tourist

June 29, 2017
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Three UN bosses offer four ways to be a sustainable tourist: Patricia Espinosa by UNclimatechange (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr; Erik Solheim by Harry Wad (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia Commons; and Taleb Rifai by World Travel & Tourism Council (CC BY 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons

Three United Nations big­wigs rep­res­ent­ing the port­fo­li­os of tour­ism, cli­mate change, and the envir­on­ment have com­bined forces on Devex to offer four ways to become a sus­tain­able tour­ist. The lead­ers, who pos­sibly sat in an office togeth­er brain­storm­ing their best ideas and delib­er­at­ing over their choice of words (but more likely asked a com­mu­nic­a­tions staffer […]

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