You can’t furlough an elephant: How Laos’ ECC is surviving the COVID crisis

February 8, 2022

One can't simply furlough a bull elephant and his mahout. Image supplied by the Elephant Conservation Center in Sayaboury, Laos.

What would you do if rev­en­ues dried up but you had dozens of ele­phants to look after? The Ele­phant Con­ser­va­tion Cen­ter (ECC) in Say­a­boury, Laos faced this situ­ation as COVID-19 lock­downs and travel bans bit in March 2020. ECC found­ing part­ner Sébas­tien Duffil­lot shares what they did. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [Thanks to “GT” Destination […]

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Tourism’s common challenge: How do we create ‘community shared value’?

February 1, 2022

A common challenge. Image by sasint (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/sunset-men-silhouettes-helping-1807524/

Are there needs, wants, and desires com­mon to all (or most) indi­vidu­als with­in your com­munity? How might travel & tour­ism serve them? K Michael Hay­wood explores the chal­lenge all des­tin­a­tions face if they wish to cre­ate ‘com­munity shared value’. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] Des­tin­a­tions Inter­na­tion­al, the pro­fes­sion­al asso­ci­ation for […]

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Good news in travel & tourism January 2022

January 27, 2022

Share "Good news in travel & tourism" as you would a dim sum brunch. Image by chaliceks (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/dim-sum-dim-sim-food-hong-kong-2346105/

“Good news in travel & tour­ism” wraps up a month of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences. Share it as you would a dim sum brunch. It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch a menu item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism” Insights “GT” Travel Exper­i­ences Good news from friends Your com­ments (cli­mate; ‘jouis­sance’) Friends […]

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From dystopia, utopia: COVID-19, collapse, and new hope for tourism’s future

January 25, 2022

Does COVID-19 represent a turning point for tourism? Image by geralt (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/signpost-waypoint-hope-hopelessness-466935/

Through the lens of sci­ence fic­tion, his own writ­ings about travel & tour­ism, and the mus­ings of con­tem­por­ary thinkers, tour­ism futur­ist Ian Yeo­man won­ders wheth­er the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic rep­res­ents a turn­ing point for our industry. If so, which path will we take? Dr Yeo­man is hope­ful. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight.  [Thanks to Jim Butcher for inviting […]

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‘Jouissance’: The pleasure & pain of ‘ethical donor tourism’ in Africa

and January 18, 2022
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Zebra stripes at Dikhololo Game Reserve, Brits, South Africa. Photo by David Clarke (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/sN6d60TySV0

Some of the very wealthy among us love to live large in Africa’s mag­ni­fi­cent land­scape, to observe (and hunt) its icon­ic wild­life. While they are there it is good that they give gen­er­ously to eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, phil­an­throp­ic, and con­ser­va­tion pro­jects, no? Are we miss­ing some­thing? Aca­dem­ics Stasja Koot and Robert Fletch­er think so.  It’s a “Good […]

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Seven ‘deeper leverage points’ for travel & tourism’s effective climate action

and January 11, 2022
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"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." _ Archimedes

Aca­dem­ics Johanna Loehr and Susanne Beck­en offer an exec­ut­ive sum­mary of “Lever­age points to address cli­mate change risk in des­tin­a­tions”; their paper recently pub­lished by Tour­ism Geo­graph­ies. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] The latest sci­ence is clear. Cli­mate action needs to step up drastic­ally.  This also affects tour­ism. As […]

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