WTACH, Nordic Tourism Collective join forces on culture and heritage

September 29, 2022

WTACH and Nordic Tourism Collective team up

The World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture and Her­it­age (WTACH) has teamed up with the Nor­d­ic Tour­ism Col­lect­ive (NTC) to build mutu­al aware­ness of the unique cul­tur­al and her­it­age assets in the great­er Nor­d­ic and Balt­ic region. WTACH will provide expert­ise and lead dis­cus­sions and train­ing ses­sions on cul­ture and her­it­age tour­ism at NTC work­shops and […]

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World Tourism Day marks launch of Climate Friendly Travel podcast

September 28, 2022

SUNx Malta Climate Friendly Travel Podcast

In cel­eb­ra­tion of World Tour­ism Day and its theme of “Rethink­ing Tour­ism”, SUNx Malta launched a new pod­cast series designed to help tour­ism com­pan­ies and com­munit­ies stay on tar­get for the Par­is 1.5°C lim­it. Announ­cing this on World Tour­ism Day, Septem­ber 27, SUNx Malta Pres­id­ent Pro­fess­or Geof­frey Lip­man said: “Our goal is to encour­age tour­ism stakeholders […]

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Really, what’s the difference? ‘Sustainable tourism’ vs ‘regenerative tourism’

September 20, 2022

Sustainable tourism vs regenerative tourism. What's the difference? Terraces by Zetong Li (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/soRA0cugtHI

In des­tin­a­tion and industry prac­tice, what is (are) the difference(s) between ‘sus­tain­able tour­ism’ and ‘regen­er­at­ive tour­ism’? 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 more than 300 words.  My thanks to […]

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10th Rwandan cultural festival opens new community tourism body, promotes gorilla pledge

September 9, 2022

Red Rocks Cultural Festival 2022 Rwanda

The Red Rocks 10th Anniversary Cul­tur­al Fest­iv­al, August 26-Septem­ber 2, brought organ­isa­tions and com­munit­ies togeth­er to cel­eb­rate and pro­mote Rwandan cul­ture, con­ser­va­tion, and sus­tain­able tour­ism.  As an advoc­ate for cul­ture and com­munity, Red Rocks hos­ted per­formers of all ages from the loc­al area.  Vis­it­ors from near and far enjoyed many tra­di­tion­al dances and music, keep­ing Rwandan […]

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“GT” Insight Bites: Want a career in tourism? Important things you should know

September 6, 2022

what you should know before you start a career in tourism. Image by Harish Sharma (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/spread-of-education-world-map-3245801/

In 2022, what is the most import­ant thing that a young per­son should under­stand before embark­ing upon a career in tour­ism? For this “GT” Insight Bites, your cor­res­pond­ent put the ques­tion above to a range of travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers — “GT” Part­ners, guest authors, and their invit­ees — and invited writ­ten responses of up to 300 words.  My thanks […]

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Vale Mikhail Gorbachev, planetary hero

and September 3, 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev, May 12, 2010 by Veni (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/veni/4602977436/in/photostream/

Mikhail Gorbachev died on August 30th, 2022. The former Pres­id­ent of the Uni­on of Soviet Social­ist Repub­lics (USSR) is best remembered as the man who engin­eered the peace­ful trans­form­a­tion of the USSR and the open­ing of the Ber­lin Wall. Less known is the fact that dur­ing his incred­ible life he col­lab­or­ated closely with Maurice Strong. Togeth­er they […]

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