“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.

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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Pacific ecotourism hampered by economic realities?

June 28, 2017
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Most Pacific eco­tour­ism pro­jects are short term because they are driv­en by purely con­ser­va­tion con­cerns while neg­lect­ing prof­it­ab­il­ity. Pacific-region eco­tour­ism pro­grams are frag­men­ted, mak­ing it dif­fi­cult to get a clear pic­ture of pro­gress. And there is a lack of fund­ing and pro­mo­tion of eco­tour­ism in the region. Accord­ing to a South Pacific Tour­ism Organ­isa­tion (SPTO) […]

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Would Gorkhaland tourism be better for the Gorkhas?

June 27, 2017

Would Gorkhaland tourism benefit from independence? Pro-Gorkhaland independence posters, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. By Adam Jones via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Tour­ism in the Dar­jeel­ing Hills and Dooars has the poten­tial to thrive under a “Gorkha­land” state admin­is­tra­tion, accord­ing to an art­icle by Jaideep Mazum­dar for Swa­ra­jya. These Indi­an ter­rit­or­ies, which are cur­rently under West Bengal state admin­is­tra­tion, are “richly endowed” with nat­ur­al beauty and bio­lo­gic­al diversity. With some con­trol over tour­ism devel­op­ment plan­ning and market […]

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Airport carbon dioxide emissions cut by 200,000 tonnes in 2015/16: ACI

June 26, 2017

ACI Director General Angela Gittens says airport carbon emissions were reduced by 200,000 tonnes in 2015/2016. Image source: 'Airport World'

Air­ports Coun­cil Inter­na­tion­al (ACI)‘s Air­port Car­bon Accred­it­a­tion pro­gramme reduced car­bon diox­ide emis­sions by more than 200,000 tonnes in the report­ing year end­ing June 2016, accord­ing to ACI Dir­ect­or Gen­er­al Angela Git­tens. The pro­gramme is now in its eighth year with 182 accred­ited air­ports in 54 coun­tries. Writ­ing for Air­port World, Ms Git­tens asser­ted that ACI’s […]

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Was it time to act on measuring sustainable tourism a decade ago?

June 24, 2017

Opening of the 6th International Conference on Tourism Statistics: Measuring Sustainable Tourism

A high-level mul­ti­lat­er­al con­fer­ence under the aus­pices of the World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) has pro­duced a declar­a­tion recog­nising the need to do some­thing about meas­ur­ing sus­tain­able tour­ism (MST); determ­in­ing tourism’s true con­tri­bu­tion to the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (SDGs). The “Manila Call for Action on Meas­ur­ing Sus­tain­able Tour­ism” says tour­ism min­is­ters, stat­ist­ic­al chiefs, and envir­on­ment­al officials […]

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Pollution plan cooked up at Kenya’s Lake Naivasha

June 22, 2017

Sunset at Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Source: Gopal Vijayaraghavan / Wikimedia

Nice places to live are nice places to vis­it. With Lake Naivasha tour­ism tak­ing a hit due to pol­lu­tion, a social enter­prise has cooked up a plan to clean up the lake and provide cheap meals to loc­al vil­la­gers. Report by the Thom­son Reu­ters Found­a­tion. Stand­ing on a muddy patch on the shores of Lake […]

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