“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.

Inclusive ecotourism projects piloted in Uttarakhand, India

May 11, 2017

Migratory birds at Asan Conservation Reserve, which will be covered in India’s Swadesh Darshan scheme. (HT Photo)

The newly-con­­sti­­tuted Uttarakhand Eco­tour­ism Cor­por­a­tion will soon start work on devel­op­ing five inclus­ive eco­tour­ism cir­cuits in the Indi­an state, accord­ing to reports. This is the first step toward Swadesh Dar­shan, a cent­ral gov­ern­ment scheme to boost tour­ism through­out the coun­try by link­ing the sec­tor with vil­la­gers’ live­li­hoods. In the first stage the five cir­cuits would […]

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South Africa prioritising inclusive tourism growth

May 11, 2017

South Africa's Minister of Tourism Tokozile Xasa to dirve inclusive tourism. Picture: Tsheko Kabasia

South Africa’s Tour­ism Min­is­ter Tokoz­ile Xasa will drive a strategy of inclus­ive tour­ism growth, pro­mot­ing small- and medi­um-sized entre­pren­eurs, Busi­ness Live reports. A tour­ism devel­op­ment fund will be cre­ated by the gov­ern­ment in col­lab­or­a­tion with devel­op­ment fin­ance insti­tu­tions to sup­port small- and medi­um-sized enter­prises (SMEs), includ­ing com­munity-based pro­jects. While tour­ism growth had been impress­ive in […]

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Kenya crocodile cages not ecotourism

May 11, 2017

Not ecotourism. Kenya crocodiles at Oldoiyo Lengai Hotel in Nyeri County, Kenya. Photo: Jospeph Kanyi | NMG

Due to a slow­down in Kenya’s tour­ism sec­tor, a hotel in Nyeri County, Cent­ral High­lands, is bank­ing on cro­codile cages to boost its income. Based on a Busi­ness Daily (Africa) report, “Hotel banks on eco-tour­ism to boost income”, The “Good Tour­ism” Blog is highly skep­tic­al of the pro­ject’s “eco­tour­ism” cre­den­tials. Indeed the pro­ject as described […]

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Sustainable tourism is not working: academic

May 10, 2017

Sustainable tourism? Tourists on the Ponte della Paglia bridge, Venice.

A con­trib­ut­or to The Con­ver­sa­tion has sug­ges­ted that sus­tain­able tour­ism is not work­ing and that the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion’s (UNW­TO’s) “2017 Inter­na­tion­al Year of Sus­tain­able Tour­ism for Devel­op­ment” is more rhet­or­ic than real­ity. Freya Hig­­gins-Des­­bio­lles, Seni­or Lec­turer in Tour­ism, Uni­ver­sity of South Aus­tralia, asserts that “eco­nom­ic growth trumps envir­on­ment­al lim­its, so sus­tain­ab­il­ity remains […]

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Cuba seminar to focus on sustainable ecotourism

May 10, 2017

Cuba ecotourism

Cuba is increas­ingly focused on a viable and sus­tain­able eco­tour­ism mod­el based on envir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion and con­ser­va­tion, accord­ing to Pren­sa Lat­ina. “Nature, adven­ture and rur­al tour­ism, are mod­al­it­ies that make a con­sid­er­able con­tri­bu­tion to the travel industry … “Cuba has a com­pre­hens­ive Nation­al Sys­tem of Pro­tec­ted Areas (SNAP) that con­trol tour­ism devel­op­ments in import­ant nation­al and […]

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Philippines’ real estate should back sustainable tourism: Teo

May 8, 2017

Philippines Tourism Secretary Wanda Corazon T Teo

Prop­erty developers and realtors should become advoc­ates of a sus­tain­able, inclus­ive and cli­mate-resi­li­ent tour­ism industry, accord­ing to Phil­ip­pines Tour­ism Sec­ret­ary Wanda Corazon T Teo speak­ing at a real estate industry awards event in Makati last week. The United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) defines sus­tain­able tour­ism as “tour­ism that takes full account of its cur­rent and future […]

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