Tourist vs traveller: What’s the difference?

March 22, 2023

Tourist vs traveller: What's the difference? Image (CC0) by Jan Vašek via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/users/jeshoots-com-264599/

What is the dif­fer­ence between a tour­ist and a trav­el­ler?  How do the beha­viours and atti­tudes of tour­ists dif­fer from those of trav­el­lers when inter­act­ing with people and places? Your cor­res­pond­ent put these tour­ist vs trav­el­ler ques­tions to “GT’s” diverse net­work of travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers — “GT” Insight authors, “GT” Part­ners, and their invit­ees — and invited emailed […]

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Women’s and youth empowerment in one of the world’s ‘best tourism villages’

March 16, 2023

Women's and youth empowerment in Rwanda with Red Rocks Initiatives for Sustainable Development

Red Rocks Ini­ti­at­ives for Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment runs con­­ser­­va­­tion- and com­munity-based tour­ism pro­jects in and around the Vol­ca­noes Nation­al Park in Rwanda. Vol­ca­noes Nation­al Park is most fam­ous for being one of the last hab­it­ats for moun­tain gor­il­las. Our ini­ti­at­ives include advan­cing the import­ant cause of women’s and youth empower­ment with­in our com­munit­ies. The non­profit Red […]

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Foraging for climate-conscious travel information: Where is our trusted guide?

March 14, 2023

Foraging for blackberries. What about for climate-conscious travel information? Image by Eduardo Jaeger (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/@designerjaeger

Des­pite warn­ings of cli­mate cata­strophe, declar­a­tions of cli­mate emer­gency, and the guilt and angst they stir up in many people, most of us still want to travel.  Herb Hiller sees the need for a trus­ted and author­it­at­ive source of cli­mate-con­­s­cious travel & tour­ism advice. The cit­ies and the coun­tryside of the Glob­al North grew wealthy […]

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World’s 46 Least Developed Countries to have Strong Climate Friendly Travel Chapters by September: Lipman

March 7, 2023

Strong Climate Friendly Travel Chapters to help world's least developed coutnries (LDCs). Photo by Miguel Bruna via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/@mbrunacr

DOHA, QATAR, MARCH 7, 2023: SUNx Malta will set up Strong Cli­mate Friendly Travel Chapters in all 46 least developed coun­tries (LDCs), plus select small island states. Chapters will work loc­ally to advance SUNx’ ambi­tious and action­able Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) agenda, which is focused on a Par­is 1.5°C tar­get. SUNx co-founder and pres­id­ent Geoffrey […]

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‘Where seagulls don’t land anymore’: Are British seaside resorts trending again?

March 7, 2023
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British seaside resorts: St Leonard’s-on-Sea

Many Brit­ish sea­side resorts are mak­ing a comeback after dec­ades of sniffy cri­ti­cism led by the media, and des­pite a per­sist­ent nar­rat­ive of decay and decline. Dav­id Jar­ratt shares this “Good Tour­ism” Insight; the second in a series ini­ti­ated by Tourism’s Hori­zon, a “GT” Insight Part­ner.  [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] Tra­di­tion­al Brit­ish sea­side resorts […]

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‘No man is an island’: Let’s talk tourism and transportation infrastructure

February 28, 2023

Let's talk transport, specifically tourism and transportation infrastructure. Image from the Faroe Islands by Annie Spratt (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/-1978llE0FE

Travel & tour­ism and trans­port­a­tion infra­struc­ture are inex­tric­ably linked. The former is almost wholly depend­ent on the lat­ter.  As stake­hold­ers in travel, tour­ism, leis­ure, and hos­pit­al­ity, do we take for gran­ted how we move from place to place? Saverio Francesco Ber­to­lu­cci shares his thoughts in the first in a series of “Good Tour­ism” Insights ini­ti­ated by […]

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