“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.

On biodiversity day is it OK to ask: “Are people wildlife too?”

May 22, 2017

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Today (May 22) is the Inter­na­tion­al Day for Bio­lo­gic­al Diversity (biod­iversity day). This year, the United Nations (UN) has linked the day with tour­ism under the theme “Biod­iversity and Sus­tain­able Tour­ism”; chosen to coin­cide with the Inter­na­tion­al Year of Sus­tain­able Tour­ism for Devel­op­ment. The UN web page about the day states: “Diversity in spe­cies, ecosystems […]

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Sustainability key to Namibia’s 10-year tourism strategy

May 20, 2017

Source: NTB website

Namibia’s Min­istry of Envir­on­ment & Tour­ism (MET) launched (or relaunched?) the Nation­al Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Growth & Devel­op­ment Strategy 2016 – 2026 and the Nation­al Tour­ism Invest­ment Pro­file and Pro­mo­tion Strategy 2016 – 2026 this week, accord­ing to reports based on Nam­i­bia Press Agency releases. The strategies address con­straints and the stra­tegic pos­i­tion­ing of tour­ism as a key eco­nom­ic and […]

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Is child sex tourism on the rise in Goa, India?

May 19, 2017

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The chil­dren of migrant work­ers in Goa, India are increas­ingly exploited for sex by domest­ic and for­eign tour­ists, accord­ing to a report. And tour­ism industry stake­hold­ers should adopt a child-friendly code — per­haps The Code? A research report, Walk­ing the tightrope: Exploit­a­tion of migrant chil­dren in Tour­ism in Goa, says tour­ism has contributed […]

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Price hikes for Rwandan gorilla treks inevitable

May 17, 2017

Mother and baby mountain gorillas, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Source: Wikimedia / Carine06

The Chief Tour­ism Officer at the Rwanda Devel­op­ment Board, Bel­ise Kariza, has copped a little bit of cri­ti­cism from com­ment­at­ors after attempt­ing to jus­ti­fy new high­er tar­iffs for moun­tain gor­illa trekking activ­it­ies. In a column Kariza wrote for The New Times, she states: “The primary object­ive of these revised tar­iffs is to ensure the long-term […]

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Guyana community-based tourism: “Partnership in development”

May 16, 2017

Moraikobai community members

The only indi­gen­ous com­munity in Guyana’s Region Five is being touted by GINA, the Gov­ern­ment Inform­a­tion Agency, as an emer­ging com­munity-based tour­ism des­tin­a­tion. With a pop­u­la­tion of just over 1,200, Moraikobai is loc­ated on the Maha­icony River, about four hours by boat from the Guyanese cap­it­al Geor­getown. As repor­ted by GINA, Guyana’s Vice Pres­id­ent and […]

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