“Good news in travel & tourism” wraps up a month of “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and experiences. Share it as you would hot chips / fries. It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch a menu item to go straight to it.) “Good Tourism” Insights “Good Tourism” Insight Bites “Good Tourism” Travel Experiences Good news from friendsGlobal | Africa | Asia […]
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What is ‘gender mainstreaming’? Why is it important? And how can it be applied in tourism and hospitality training centres? In the wake of the release of their report on gender mainstreaming, Nguyễn Thị Thu Thảo, Võ Thị Quế Chi, Marlène Vermeij, and Delhi Kalwan of “GT” Partner the Association of Southeast Asian Social Enterprises […]
Read More Gender mainstreaming in tourism & hospitality training. What? Why? How?
Accommodation service providers are expected to honour the human right to water of all those around them. Hoteliers should view this responsibility not as a burden, but as an opportunity to meaningfully and continually engage with destination stakeholders while developing more efficient and sustainable water and waste management systems. It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight by […]
Read More How a human rights approach can help hotels improve their water management
More than 250 Thai tourism professionals joined the dynamic “Tourlink Thai Tourism Suppliers Training: Tools towards a Successful and Sustainable Future” in September. The training brought together Thai tourism suppliers and community enterprises, across sectors, to raise their social and environmental performance while developing their capacity to reach more high-value European tourists through business partnerships. […]
Read More 250+ Thai tourism businesses train on minimum sustainability practices, access European markets
Cardamom Tented Camp in Cambodia has won the 2022 Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific (HICAP) Sustainable Hotel Award for Climate Action. Apart from climate action, there were awards for building preservation/adaptive reuse, positive community impact, and sustainable design. The BHN Group, which runs the HICAP event, announced the winners on 12 October. Seven judges, mostly […]
Read More Cardamom Tented Camp wins HICAP Sustainable Hotel Award for Climate Action
Without offering any destination- or market-specific context, one commentator recently asserted that tourism is “built on the backbone of white supremacy”. What do you think? It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight Bites question. Your correspondent put the question to a range of travel & tourism stakeholders — “GT” Insight authors, “GT” Partners, and their invitees — and invited emailed written responses of no […]
Read More ‘Tourism is built on the backbone of white supremacy’. What do you think?
