Business travel recovery under way in Asia Pacific … but it’s complicated 

December 9, 2022

Business travel: It's complicated. Photo by Rob Wilson (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/WuD-H9IQnfg

Busi­ness travel in Asia Pacific — and glob­ally — is recov­er­ing strongly post-COV­­ID, along with the tour­ism industry more gen­er­ally.  How­ever, the rebound is com­plic­ated by linger­ing con­cerns about health and safety (the duty of care employ­ers and travel man­agers should have to busi­ness trav­el­lers), as well as ESG (envir­on­ment­al, social, and gov­ernance) wor­ries. Del­eg­ates heard about this on […]

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How can travel & tourism help save heritage sites from climate change?

December 6, 2022

How can travel & tourism help save heritage sites from climate change? Venice image by Albrecht Fietz (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/venice-italy-island-historic-center-7572877/

Travel & tour­ism and nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al her­it­age are often inter­de­pend­ent. So how should tour­ism respond to wor­ries that cli­mate change threatens her­it­age sites? It’s a ques­tion posed by Kev­in Phun in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. Can tour­ism enable and enhance cli­mate change mit­ig­a­tion and adapt­a­tion meas­ures? Can tour­ist activ­it­ies help increase loc­al com­munit­ies’ resi­li­ence?  Global […]

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Good news in travel & tourism November 2022

November 30, 2022

Share "Good news in travel & tourism November 2022" as you would share a salad. Image by Karolina Grabowska (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/spinach-chicken-pomegranate-salad-791629/

“Good news in travel & tour­ism” wraps up a month of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences. Share it as you would a fresh salad. It’s “GT”. And go!  (Click/touch a menu item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism” is where free thought travels Did you ever want to write a thought­ful piece […]

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Does sustainable tourism require ‘travel for everyone’?

November 29, 2022
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Does sustainable tourism require ‘travel for everyone’? Base image by geralt (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/crowd-people-silhouettes-2045498/

Is ‘travel for every­one’ a pre­requis­ite for truly sus­tain­able tour­ism? Ira­ni­an schol­ar S Fate­meh Mosta­favi Shirazi pos­its the idea in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight.  [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] The pos­it­ives and neg­at­ives of the tour­ism industry, includ­ing how cru­cial it is (or is not) to eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, and par­tic­u­larly its con­tri­bu­tions to the […]

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Holidays for the visually impaired: Seable runs crowdfunding campaign

November 24, 2022

Holidays for the visually impaired: Seable runs crowdfunding campaign

Seable is the only multi-award win­ning tour oper­at­or in the United King­dom to cre­ate assisted, act­ive, and tailored hol­i­days for the visu­ally impaired. [This “GT” ‘spon­sor mes­sage’ was offered free-of-charge to assist Seable in their crowd­fund­ing cam­paign.] We strive to cre­ate access­ible hol­i­days that improve inde­pend­ence, inclu­sion, and well­being, offer­ing indi­vidu­al oppor­tun­it­ies to increase confidence, […]

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What are tourism’s biggest challenges & threats over the next five years to 2027?

November 22, 2022

Tourism's challenges and threats. Cobra image by P Schreiner (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/line-cobra-dangerous-reptile-1974382/

Over the next five years, what is the single biggest chal­lenge or threat facing tour­ism where you work, or that you have iden­ti­fied through your research and study?  And what are the key strategies that your organ­isa­tion, des­tin­a­tion, or the industry at large should employ to over­come it? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites ques­tion. Your cor­res­pond­ent put the […]

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