How community homestays contribute to experiential travel & tourism in Nepal

July 22, 2021

Travellers cooking with Host at Panauti Community Homestay in Nepal

Homestays encour­age vis­its to under-appre­­ci­ated parts of any des­tin­a­tion and longer stays over­all. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Aay­usha Pra­sain explains how com­munity-based homestays in Nepal offer a more authen­t­ic exper­i­ence, help spread the bene­fits of travel & tour­ism more widely, and may even pro­mote an appre­ci­ation of loc­al cul­ture and her­it­age among young people. […]

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And the most important colleagues in a community-based tourism project are …

July 20, 2021
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Have freedom, will trade. A Bangkok night market from above, January 2018. By Sam Beasley (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/cpbWNtkKoiU

… com­munity mem­bers, of course!  In his second “Good Tour­ism” Insight, com­munity-based and sus­tain­able tour­ism con­sult­ant Peter Richards reflects on the most import­ant thing he has learned dur­ing his career so far, and how to make it so. While work­ing at the cross­roads of tour­ism and com­munity devel­op­ment for more than 20 years, one gradu­ally accumulates […]

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Wild urban spaces: Rethinking ecotourism as a mass tourism product

July 15, 2021

'Urban Jungle' by Pelle Sten (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pellesten/5655438695

What if the ‘mass’ travel & tour­ism activ­it­ies of cit­ies and cit­izens were ‘sus­tain­able’? Could any of it be coun­ted as ‘eco­tour­ism’? Sudip­ta K Sarkar explores these ques­tions in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [Thanks to Jim Butcher for invit­ing Dr Sarkar to write a “GT” Insight.] After more than a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]

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Save to sustain: Frugal innovation & traditional knowledge in circular tourism

July 13, 2021

Island. By Tomas Anunziata (CC0) via Pexels. https://www.pexels.com/photo/island-with-floating-boat-from-drone-3876404/ Vine. By gyromatical (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/vine-frame-border-leaves-wreath-6184947/ Family. By Clker-Free-Vector-Images (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/vectors/family-parents-kids-children-young-43873/

Angelo Sciacca was the first guest author to intro­duce the concept of the cir­cu­lar eco­nomy to this web­site when he argued for its poten­tial to make small island des­tin­a­tions more resi­li­ent and less depend­ent on travel & tour­ism. In this, his third “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Mr Sciacca adds frugal innov­a­tion and tra­di­tion­al know­ledge to his […]

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Is agritourism a more eco-friendly & gender-equitable form of tourism?

July 8, 2021
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Would you pay more for cher­ries you picked your­self? Respond­ents in an agri­t­our­ism study by Erdogan Koc said they would. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, his second, Prof Koc sum­mar­ises the case for agri­t­our­ism and its poten­tial bene­fits for the envir­on­ment and women … and cherry grow­ers. In par­al­lel with its fast growth over the […]

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Where next for wildlife conservation, ecotourism, & community well-being?

July 6, 2021

Tim the tusker. (c) Beth Allgood

In many places, improved rela­tion­ships between tour­ism oper­a­tions, wild­life, and hab­it­ats were start­ing to deliv­er more sus­tain­able out­comes, includ­ing the par­ti­cip­a­tion of loc­al people. Then COVID-19 …  “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner Plan­et Hap­pi­ness invited con­ser­va­tion and com­munity devel­op­ment expert Beth All­good to share her thoughts in this exclus­ive “GT” Insight. See­ing wild­life in their nat­ive habitat […]

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