Hello 2022: Hello Code Red, Climate Friendly Travel

and January 7, 2022

Hello 2022 and Code Red, Climate Friendly Travel

Good­bye 2021 Des­pite the per­man­ent drama of an intensi­fy­ing pan­dem­ic, 2021 also under­scored the mag­nitude of our creep­ing, exist­en­tial glob­al cli­mate crisis.  Weath­er extremes decim­ated com­munit­ies on all con­tin­ents: Crazy floods in Europe and Canada; Massive forest fires in the US and Aus­tralia; Droughts in Africa; Typhoons in the Pacific and the Atlantic; and growing […]

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Why travel & tourism is wrong to embrace net zero as its climate change response

January 4, 2022
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Under net zero orthodoxy, will air travel become an elitist activity only ever undertaken by the very wealthy? Image by VOO QQQ (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/RSYBi_1fhfMUnder net zero orthodoxy, will air travel become an elitist activity only ever undertaken by the very wealthy? Image by VOO QQQ (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/RSYBi_1fhfM

Sens­ible and rig­or­ous envir­on­ment­al­ism in travel & tour­ism is desir­able, accord­ing to Ken Scott. How­ever, the pre­ma­ture pur­suit of net zero when the most prom­ising tech­no­lo­gies aren’t ready is an unne­ces­sary act of self harm for the industry, he argues.  It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] I con­sider myself a […]

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Good news in travel & tourism December 2021

December 23, 2021

“Good news in travel & tourism” wraps up a month of “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, tips, and advice. Share it as you would a stollen. By kakuko (CC0) via Pixabay. httpspixabay.comphotoschrist-stollen-christmas-stollen-1084954

“Good news in travel & tour­ism” wraps up a month of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, tips, and advice. Share it as you would a stollen. It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch a menu item to go straight to it.) “GT” Insights Good news from friends Top five most vis­ited “GT” posts of 2021 (& […]

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Top five most visited “GT” Insights & “GT” Travel Experiences of 2021 (& all time)

December 21, 2021

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Most of the past year — two years — has been ter­ribly tough for many; espe­cially travel & tour­ism people.  I can’t really say much more about it than I said at the cor­res­pond­ing time last year:  Good rid­dance 2021 … 2022 had bet­ter be bet­ter … blah blah … But, as I wrote at the end of 2020, it’s import­ant to […]

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Stronger together: Tourism training partnerships help prevent child exploitation

, , and December 14, 2021

Stronger together preventing sectt sexual exploitation of travel and tourism through training

The sexu­al exploit­a­tion of chil­dren by those who use the ser­vices of the travel & tour­ism industry is a dif­fi­cult sub­ject to acknow­ledge let alone dis­cuss. This is why ECPAT Inter­na­tion­al, The Code, and ASSET‑H&C have partnered to give train­ers and edu­cat­ors use­ful tools to help pre­pare stu­dents to look out for and report signs […]

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Elephants, otters return to Cardamom Tented Camp’s conservation area in Cambodia

December 7, 2021

Cardamom Tented Camp ecolodge in Cambodia reports success in nature conservation with otters and elephants coming back to its conservation area.

Car­damom Ten­ted Camp in Cam­bod­ia has wit­nessed the return of a small herd of ele­phants to its con­ser­va­tion area, after an absence of five years. A large group of smooth-coated otters are back too. Forest rangers dis­covered and pho­to­graphed ele­phant foot­prints and drop­pings inside the 18,000-hectare forest con­ces­sion, which the camp pro­tects, with help from Wildlife […]

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