How a human rights approach can help hotels improve their water management

and October 18, 2022

Hotels and the human right to water. Image by mrjn Photography (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/YpZ2cj4s0oo

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 […]

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250+ Thai tourism businesses train on minimum sustainability practices, access European markets

October 17, 2022

250+ Thai tourism businesses agree to minimum sustainability practices, gain Europe market access

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. […]

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Cardamom Tented Camp wins HICAP Sustainable Hotel Award for Climate Action

October 13, 2022

Cardamom Tented Camp wins HICAP Sustainable Hotel Award for Climate Action

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 […]

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‘Tourism is built on the backbone of white supremacy’. What do you think?

October 11, 2022
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Is tourism built on white supremacy?

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 […]

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Destination innovation is about more than technology

October 4, 2022

Destination innovation is more than tech. Image by Michal Jarmoluk (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/innovation-business-businessman-561388/

Tech­no­logy alone is unlikely to solve all our prob­lems, or help us achieve all that we wish. This is true for tour­ism des­tin­a­tions as they look to innov­ate out of crisis and into an uncer­tain future. It’s a “GT” Insight by K Michael Hay­wood. [You too can write a “Good Tour­ism” Insight.] The World Tour­ism Innovation […]

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Good news in travel & tourism September 2022

September 30, 2022

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“Good news in travel & tour­ism” wraps up a month of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences. Share it as you would a bottle of wine. 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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