“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.

Aviation, tourism can do more to stop human trafficking

June 20, 2017

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The US leads in an inter­na­tion­al effort to train air­line and air­port staff to spot and report poten­tial human traf­fick­ing. How­ever does avi­ation lag behind oth­er tour­ism sup­ply chain sec­tors? Report by the Thom­son Reu­ters Found­a­tion. Flight attend­ant Donna Hub­bard was deeply con­cerned when a couple car­ried a boy who was sweat­ing, leth­ar­gic and appeared […]

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Ecotourism & wildlife: To feed or not to feed?

June 18, 2017

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A 71-year-old New Hamp­shire, USA artist wants to devel­op an “eco­tour­ism” product based on feed­ing bears and moose, accord­ing to an art­icle in the Sen­tinel Source. Richard Whitney’s concept is simple: Find a remote, wooded area, cre­ate a con­trolled feed­ing site to attract wild­life and charge vis­it­ors to watch. Whit­ney and his part­ner were them­selves charged […]

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Ownership, inclusion key to community-based tourism

June 17, 2017
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The most import­ant factors influ­en­cing the suc­cess of com­munity-based tour­ism (CBT) pro­jects in Myan­mar are “com­munity organ­isa­tion and man­age­ment sup­port” fol­lowed by “tour­ism product devel­op­ment accord­ing to mar­ket needs”. The main reas­ons for fail­ure are “top-down approach by devel­op­ment part­ner and/or private sec­tor part­ner in which the needs and ideas of the com­munity are not taken […]

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Africa needs “inclusive and green tourism growth”

June 17, 2017

Africa Tourism Monitor: Sustainable Tourism through Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technology

Afric­an coun­tries need to craft eco­nom­ic and trade policies that will foster inclus­ive and green tour­ism growth, accord­ing to the latest edi­tion of the Africa Tour­ism Mon­it­or. The report, sub­titled “Sus­tain­able Tour­ism through Innov­a­tion, Entre­pren­eur­ship, and Tech­no­logy” and dated Decem­ber 2016, has just been released by the Afric­an Devel­op­ment Bank (AfDB). It stresses why it […]

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Cuba gov’t praises Jardines del Rey hotels for sustainable practices

June 16, 2017

Cuba's government praises Jardines del Rey hotels for their sustainable pratices

Four hotels in Jardines del Rey, Cuba have achieved “good res­ults in meet­ing envir­on­ment­al stand­ards aimed at achiev­ing sus­tain­able tour­ism”, accord­ing to Pren­sa Lat­ina, an inform­a­tion agency for Lat­in Amer­ica. Jardines del Rey (“Gar­dens of the King”) is an archipelago off the north­ern coast of Cuba, in the provinces of Ciego de Ávila and Camagüey. […]

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South Pacific Tourism looks to its ocean & the ‘circular economy’

June 15, 2017

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In the wake of the first United Nations Oceans Con­fer­ence last week, the South Pacific Tour­ism Organ­isa­tion (SPTO) has called on the Pacific’s tour­ism industry to pro­tect and sus­tain­ably man­age the oceans for tour­ism devel­op­ment. Tour­ism is a tar­get under Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goal (SDG) 14.7: “By 2030, increase the eco­nom­ic bene­fits to Small Island developing […]

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