From reef rubble to recovery: How Livingseas Asia is leading tourism in Bali

December 7, 2025

From reef rubble to recovery: How Livingseas Asia is leading tourism in Bali

Tour­ism built Bali’s repu­ta­tion but nearly broke its reefs. Now, the same industry is becom­ing a force for recovery.

Led by Liv­ing­seas Asia, a pion­eer­ing dive oper­at­or in Padang­bai, a grow­ing num­ber of vis­it­ors are return­ing not to take, but to give back. They are reviv­ing cor­al eco­sys­tems one dive at a time.

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Tourism’s biggest threats, opportunities: five years to 2030

December 1, 2025

Tourism’s biggest threats, opportunities: five years to 2030. A Gemini-generated image. "GT" added the words.

What is tourism’s biggest oppor­tun­ity and/or threat, either in your spe­cif­ic loc­a­tion or glob­ally, over the next five years (2026 – 2030)?

Thanks to the 17 good people who respon­ded to this “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites question.

Find with­in, for your con­sid­er­a­tion and enjoy­ment, place-based per­spect­ives from Eng­land to Iran, Bar­celona to Bend; mul­tiple glob­al issues from cost-cut­ting arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence to out-of-whack aca­demia; women’s empower­ment to ocean plastic.

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Re-awakening: How can vibrant tales connect us all through folklore tourism?

November 30, 2025

Isle of Skye, Scotland, is a landscape of folklore. Photo by Vivian Sakko (c). "GT" added the words: "Do you believe?" Re-awakening: How can vibrant tales connect us all through folklore tourism?

In what ways might super­nat­ur­al folk­tales — and their anim­ist char­ac­ter­ist­ics — influ­ence res­id­ents’ and tour­ists’ per­cep­tions of and beha­viours with­in landscapes? 

Vivi­an Sakko invest­ig­ated this ques­tion on the Isle of Skye, Scot­land, for an award-win­ning master’s thes­is about folk­lore tourism …

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Do fun and politics mix? Can we ‘leave our cares behind’ when we go on holiday?

November 5, 2025

Fun and politics image by Google Gemini. Do fun and politics mix? Can we or should we ‘leave our cares behind’ on holiday? It's a "Good Tourism" Insight Bites compilation.

Do fun and polit­ics mix? Can we or should we ‘leave our cares behind’ on holiday?

It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites question.

Thanks to Jim Butcher, K Michael Hay­wood, Chris Kit­tish­in­nak­uppe, and Vil­helmi­ina Vain­ikka for tak­ing the time to con­sider the ques­tion. Their responses appear in the order received.

And thanks to Willem Niemeijer and John Mor­ris Wil­li­ams for shar­ing unre­lated ideas in the form of “Good Tour­ism” Insight BiteXes.

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Cardamom Tented Camp among the world’s most responsible tourism projects: ICRT

November 4, 2025

Cardamom Tented Camp in Cambodia is among the world’s most responsible tourism projects according to the International Centre for Responsible Tourism (ICRT)

Car­damom Ten­ted Camp in Cam­bod­ia is among the world’s most respons­ible tour­ism pro­jects accord­ing to the Inter­na­tion­al Centre for Respons­ible Tourism. 

The eco­lodge was acclaimed among 30 final­ists at ICRT’s 2025 Glob­al Respons­ible Tour­ism Awards in Lon­don, Novem­ber 3.

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Can the tide of ocean plastic be stopped? The No-Trash Triangle Initiative thinks so

and November 1, 2025

Can the tide of ocean plastic be stopped? The No-Trash Triangle Initiative thinks so. Photo by Ezra Kaunang for NTTI

Per­haps 80% of the plastic in our oceans gets there via rivers. In Man­ado, Indone­sia the grass­roots No-Trash River pro­ject uses simple bar­ri­ers to catch plastic waste, pre­vent­ing it from reach­ing the Bunaken Mar­ine Park and spoil­ing its dive tour­ism hotspots.

Learn more from Anna Cler­ici, co-founder of the No-Trash Tri­angle Ini­ti­at­ive which is an EXO Found­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Award winner.

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