“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.

A PM appointed IY2017 ambassador … oh, and food fish are going extinct

June 13, 2017

world bank un blue economy

Head­lining a UNWTO press release dated June 12 is the fact that the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) appoin­ted the Prime Min­is­ter of Sam­oa, Tuilae­pa Sailele Malielegaoi, as one of nine (9) Spe­cial Ambas­sad­ors of the Inter­na­tion­al Year of Sus­tain­able Tour­ism for Devel­op­ment 2017. The cere­mony took place in New York on June 7 […]

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Parayil: Kerala’s chief responsible tourism storyteller?

June 11, 2017

Gopinath Pariyal: The chief responsible tourism storyteller of Kerala?

A pion­eer of respons­ible tour­ism in Ker­ala, India, Gop­inath Paray­il thinks the act of being respons­ible is applic­able to all forms of tour­ism and that it is the only sus­tain­able way for­ward. Parayil’s respons­ible tour­ism jour­ney began in 2003 while sub­mer­ging the ashes of his fath­er in the Bhara­ta­puzha River. He real­ised that the river […]

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Mystical inspiration, permaculture & ecotourism in Peru

June 10, 2017

Mystical inspiration, permaculture, & ecotourism in Peru. Source. Ecoaldeas Peru Facebook page

A banker with a “mys­tic vis­ion” has built a social busi­ness that has helped a rur­al com­munity in Peru lever­age eco­tour­ism, sus­tain­able farm­ing, and non-tim­ber forest products to sus­tain­ably man­age its resources, accord­ing to an art­icle in Eco­sys­tem Mar­ket­place. San Roque de Cum­baza (San Roque) is a town in the San Martín region of Peru, a 45-minute drive […]

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Cruise industry must help solve over-tourism

June 8, 2017

When this ship comes to call it dominates the landscape. Source: KarinKarin / Pixabay

Author­it­ies in uber-pop­u­lar des­tin­a­tions, such as Venice and Bar­celona, often assert that the eco­nom­ic con­tri­bu­tion of mass tour­ism dwarfs the dis­rup­tion caused to pub­lic ser­vices and res­id­ents. How­ever, res­id­ents with no ves­ted interest in the travel & tour­ism industry reg­u­larly and vehe­mently dis­agree. What these places are exper­i­en­cing is “over-tour­ism”, a term an art­icle by […]

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Kenya tourist lodge shuts after land invasions, wildlife killings

June 7, 2017

Elephants fight in the Laikipia region of Kenya where Sosian lodge is located: Source: Sosian

A lodge owned by a murdered Brit­ish ranch­er in Kenya’s north­ern Laikipia region announced its clos­ure on Monday (June 5). This comes after the ranch prop­erty had been over­run by her­ders for months and ahead of August polls in which some politi­cians have made land reform a cam­paign issue. Tristan Voor­spuy, a Brit­ish army vet­er­an, was shot […]

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Sri Lanka & Thailand slapped on biodiversity day

June 6, 2017

Yala leopard. Source: Amila Tennakoon https://www.flickr.com/photos/lakpura/15654125258

The former Dir­ect­or-Gen­er­­al of Sri Lanka’s Depart­ment of Wild­life Con­ser­va­tion (DWC) ques­tioned wheth­er Yala Nation­al Park can sus­tain tour­ism num­bers skyrock­et­ing more than 1,000% in sev­en years – from 48,368 vis­it­ors in 2008 to 545,007 in 2015. Dr Sum­ith Pil­ap­itiya was tack­ling over-vis­it­a­­tion and its con­sequences on biod­iversity at an event to mark the Inter­na­tion­al Day for […]

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