“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.

Indonesia tackles lies, damned lies, & sustainable tourism statistics?

May 16, 2017

Fam Islands fisherman. Image credit: Jakarta Post / Seto Wardhana

Indone­si­a’s Tour­ism Min­istry con­duc­ted a focus group dis­cus­sion on sus­tain­able tour­ism stat­ist­ics last week, accord­ing to two reports com­ing out of Jakarta at the week­end. Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Devel­op­ment Work­ing Group head I Gede Ardika said the dis­cus­sion was about Indone­si­a’s present­a­tion of its recom­mend­a­tions at an upcom­ing con­fer­ence in Manila, Phil­ip­pines. The 6th Inter­na­tion­al Conference […]

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Colorado Tourism talks inclusive growth, sustainability

May 15, 2017

Pronghorns scamper across the northeast plains of Colorado. Image Credit: Matt Inden/Miles

The Col­or­ado Tour­ism Office (CTO) is speak­ing the lan­guage of inclus­ive growth and sus­tain­ab­il­ity in a new “Col­or­ado Come to Life” cam­paign. “We’re put­ting our focus on gen­er­at­ing greatest fin­an­cial impact pos­sible from exist­ing vis­it­ors,” CTO Dir­ect­or Cathy Ritter reportedly said. “Every corner has the oppor­tun­ity to bene­fit from travel spend­ing.” The US state’s new […]

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Is it the “end of tourism” for Copenhagen?

May 13, 2017

Copenhagen Marathon. Picture: Matthew James Harrison via visitcopenhagen.com

In Feb­ru­ary Denmark’s cap­it­al Copen­ha­gen boldly announced the “end of tour­ism as we know it” and ushered in the rise of “loc­al­hood”. This wasn’t some dysto­pi­an present in which the eco­nom­ic extern­al­it­ies of the travel & tour­ism industry have to be paid for and the emer­gent middle-class masses of Asia are forced to stay at home […]

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In India, where tigers are neighbours

May 13, 2017

“Not long ago, the Chenchus were caught in the crossfire between Maoists and the anti-Naxal force of the Andhra Pradesh police. The recent National Tiger Conservation Authority order puts them into yet another uncertain phase.” | Photo Credit: V. RAJU

While inaug­ur­at­ing the Nal­lamala Jungle Camp, a com­munity-based eco­tour­ism ini­ti­at­ive, Deputy Chief Min­is­ter K E Krish­namurthy of Andhra Pra­desh state in India hailed the Chen­chu people for pre­serving their cul­ture and iden­tity. This feel-good start to a May 11 news story by The Hans India gets bet­ter; Chen­chu mem­bers will teach vis­it­ors to Nal­lamala Jungle […]

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Caribbean Tourism sets students a sustainability challenge

May 12, 2017

A Carribean beach

Stu­dents will be chal­lenged to present “well-researched, prac­tic­al, and fin­an­­cially-viable sus­tain­able tour­ism pro­jects” at an event hos­ted by the Carib­bean Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (CTO) next month. CTO-USA Dir­ect­or Sylma Brown said: “Tour­ism edu­ca­tion is a crit­ic­al ele­ment of sus­tain­ab­il­ity in the Carib­bean and the CTO is com­mit­ted to ensur­ing that the bright­est and best lead the tourism […]

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Cyprus hopes fake reef will shore up fisheries, tourism

May 12, 2017

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The Medi­ter­ranean island repub­lic of Cyprus will install an arti­fi­cial reef to sup­port fish­er­ies and “more sus­tain­able” tour­ism, reports Cyprus Mail. The reef is to be con­struc­ted next year off the coast of Pol­is in an area of sea stretch­ing between Lat­chi har­bour and the Anas­sa hotel. The arti­fi­cial reef, which will be the second in […]

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