If you’re a travel agent looking for a unique destination to recommend to your clients, or a tour operator searching for a new partner in Africa, consider Red Rocks Cultural Campsite in Musanze, Rwanda. This hidden gem is about more than mountain gorillas. As its name suggests, it offers visitors an opportunity to immerse themselves […]
Read More Learn Rwandan cuisine at Red Rocks Cultural Campsite
Indigenous tourism has enormous potential as travellers’ expectations evolve, according to Alastair Naughton. Perhaps the biggest challenge now is turning interest in indigenous tourism experiences into investment and bookings. It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight. (You too can write a “GT” Insight.)
Read More Indigenous tourism’s interest-action disparity reflects sustainable tourism’s ‘say-do gap’
Leadership has never been more challenging, according to K Michael Haywood. Who can respond to multiple (real and imagined) crises, balance competing stakeholder demands within a coherent vision, and maintain one’s own mental health while attending to the feelings of others? It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight. (You too can write a “GT” Insight.) In the […]
Read More Who can be a successful leader of a highly effective tourism association in 2023?
The independent, science-based Tourism Panel on Climate Change (TPCC) had its first public open discussion with more than 350 travel & tourism academic researchers on July 6, the second day of the Surrey 2023 Conference, “Back For Good”. Professor Daniel Scott, who chaired the session, described the audience engagement at the event as “very encouraging and […]
Read More TPCC engages travel & tourism research community in open discussion on climate change, in preparation for first ‘Stocktake’
Do your travel & tourism operations or academic pursuits contribute to a “continuation or reimposition of imperialist rule”? Are they part of your nation’s efforts to influence a less developed land and exploit its resources? As a travel & tourism stakeholder, are you, as some would say, a neocolonialist? Discuss. Your correspondent put these questions […]
Read More Hey, travel & tourism, are you ‘neocolonialist’?
This ‘Good news in travel & tourism’ wraps up two months of “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and experiences. Share it as you would a cake … or would you!? It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch a menu item to go straight to it.) “Good Tourism” doesn’t judge. “GT” publishes. Did you ever want to write […]
Read More Good news in travel & tourism June-July 2023
