Beyond ‘voluntourism’: Can you help Rwanda with sustainable tourism and community development?

February 23, 2023

Can you help Red Rocks with sustainable tourism and community development in Rwanda?

Drip­ping with sus­tain­able tour­ism and com­munity devel­op­ment poten­tial, the Vol­ca­noes Nation­al Park in north­west­ern Rwanda, along with the Vir­unga Park in the Demo­crat­ic Repub­lic of Congo (DRC) and the Bwindi Park in Uganda, make up the fam­ous Vir­unga Mas­sif whose eight vol­ca­noes are the only hab­it­at in the world for moun­tain gor­il­las. In Rwanda, Volcanoes […]

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The heads of finance, operations, and public relations walk into their boss’s office … 

February 21, 2023

An impressionist painting of a business meeting in a boss office by DALL-E

The heads of fin­ance, oper­a­tions, and pub­lic rela­tions walk into their boss’s office …  It might be the setup for a joke — feel free to sug­gest a punch­line — but it could per­tain to a very ser­i­ous mat­ter.  What is the most import­ant issue that they could talk about? And how might they come to an agree­ment? Your correspondent […]

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The great realignment: What caused tourism’s labour crisis & how do we fix it?

February 14, 2023
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Hospitality, travel, and tourism is experiencing a labour crisis. Sign image by Gerd Altmann (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/sign-work-attitude-workplace-1020318/

After lay­ing off so many people dur­ing the COVID lock­downs, the travel, tour­ism, and hos­pit­al­ity sec­tors now face a labour crisis. Frédéric Dimanche points to causes and pos­its solu­tions. Last year ended on a pos­it­ive note for the travel & tour­ism industry as it over­came its greatest chal­lenge, the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.  Des­pite the Rus­si­an invasion […]

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Douro on my mind: Measuring & marketing value during the ‘value crisis’

February 7, 2023
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Douro Valley, Portugal by by Maksym Kaharlytskyi (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/5ZmAyIG_OrI Price / value scale by Tumisu (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/purchase-shopping-price-value-7307064/ Thought bubble by Clker-Free-Vector-Images (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/vectors/cloud-thinking-thought-bubble-304979/

Des­tin­a­tion mar­keters can exploit a gen­er­al per­ceived lack of value and trust to build affin­ity with pro­spect­ive vis­it­ors, accord­ing to K Michael Hay­wood.  In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Pro­fess­or Hay­wood describes the oppor­tun­ity for des­tin­a­tion mar­keters and the attend­ant chal­lenge for des­tin­a­tion man­agers. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] It has been 20 years since […]

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Good news in travel & tourism December 2022 to January 2023

January 31, 2023

Nachos image by Herson Rodriguez (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/aZOqcEK2KuQ

This “Good news in travel & tour­ism” wraps up two months of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences. Share it as you would nachos … 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 a thought­ful piece about […]

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How can we change sustainable tourism destination management for good?

January 24, 2023
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The world is changing. Is travel & tourism destination management? Individual holding newspaper by Gerd Altmann (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/businessman-newspaper-read-world-4929680/ Superimposed on top is aviation’s CO2 emissions in 2018, an image by @PythonMaps. "GT" added the words "Is travel & tourism?"

To cre­ate a more sus­tain­able tour­ism industry, des­tin­a­tion man­agers need to tackle ‘the invis­ible bur­den’ that trav­el­lers and their facil­it­at­ors and ser­vice pro­viders impose on people and places.  Megan Epler Wood dis­cusses the energy, intel­li­gence, resources, hope, and edu­ca­tion required to trans­form des­tin­a­tion man­age­ment for the 21st cen­tury and bey­ond.  Plan­et Hap­pi­ness invited Ms Epler Wood […]

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