Revealed for COP 28: Global tourism’s first climate change stocktake report

December 13, 2023

TPCC 'Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake 2023'

The first Tour­ism and Cli­mate Change Stock­take report has been released by the Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) con­cur­rent with the UN COP 28 Cli­mate Con­fer­ence. [Down­load the Stock­take.] Its 24 key find­ings aim to sup­port policy makers and the tour­ism industry to accel­er­ate plan­ning and invest­ment toward low car­bon and cli­mate resi­li­ent glob­al tourism. […]

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Prof Richard Butler on tourism’s challenges and academia’s inadequacies

December 12, 2023

Professor Richard Butler on tourism’s challenges and academia’s inadequacies ... "[Don't] let wishful thinking take precedence over logic"

As most travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers rush towards an uncer­tain future filled with very real chal­lenges, Richard But­ler wor­ries that aca­demia is los­ing itself down ideo­lo­gic­al alley­ways and crit­ic­al cul-de-sacs. The cre­at­or of But­ler­’s Tour­ism Area Life Cycle (TALC) mod­el thinks it is import­ant for tour­ism research­ers and edu­cat­ors to check in with real­ity. Prof […]

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Good news in travel & tourism October-November 2023

November 30, 2023

Share 'Good news in travel & tourism October-November 2023' as you would a plate of hummus. Image by Andrea (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/hummus-meal-chickpeas-pasta-seeds-1058000/

This ‘Good news in travel & tour­ism’ wraps up two months of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences. Share it as you would hum­mus … It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch an item on the shar­ing menu to go straight to it. And don’t for­get to share.) “Good Tour­ism” doesn’t judge. “GT” pub­lishes. Did you ever want […]

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It’s time for REAL change: TPCC ‘Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake 2023’

November 30, 2023

TPCC 'Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake 2023'

Novem­ber 30, 2023: “The time for real change is now,” accord­ing to the TPCC (Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change). The TPCC will launch its Tour­ism and Cli­mate Change Stock­take 2023 on Decem­ber 11 dur­ing a glob­al online event at 0900 GMT/UTC, which will be repeated at 1700 for travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers around the world. This first sec­tor­al Stock­take has […]

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Cash, time, or freedom: Travel & tourism is expensive

November 28, 2023

Then as now, tourism is expensive. Photo Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.

If one can put romantic notions of ‘the good old days’ aside, then one must acknow­ledge that travel was then, and is now, an elit­ist pur­suit for those with the lux­ur­ies of cash, time, and/or free­dom. Tour­ism is expens­ive. Our industry has to change, accord­ing to Duncan M Simpson. But how?

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Partnerships: Good partners are like family at Red Rocks Initiatives Rwanda

and November 27, 2023

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At Red Rocks Ini­ti­at­ive for Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment in Rwanda we are always open to new part­ner­ships.  We recog­nise that good part­ners helped us take our very first steps. And good part­ners have helped us get to where we are now. They, and new part­ners, will be val­ued stake­hold­ers in our ongo­ing jour­ney. More than stakeholders, […]

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