Taming the beautiful monster: What ‘critical tourism studies’ means to me

March 23, 2021
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Dragon's eye. Image by Victoria_Borodinova (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/dragon-fantasy-eye-3916633/

Some observ­ers of the ‘cul­ture wars’ in the west will be sus­pi­cious of the word ‘crit­ic­al’ in aca­dem­ic con­texts due to con­tro­ver­sial ‘crit­ic­al the­ory’ and its influ­ence. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Meghan L Mul­doon explains what ‘crit­ic­al tour­ism stud­ies’ means to her. (And can a crit­ic­al tour­ism schol­ar love trav­el­ling? Dr Mul­doon does.) [Thanks to […]

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Good news in tourism March 15 – 21, 2021

March 21, 2021

Forest path, Walpole, Western Australia

Because be all that you can be … Pub­lished most Sundays, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism … everyone’s busi­ness. This week’s good travel & tour­ism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism” news & “GT” Insights Travel & […]

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Women’s travel & tourism livelihoods matter too: What I’m doing about it

March 18, 2021

"Regardless of identity or political labels, indications are that most women support equality ..." Image by geralt (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/arrows-trend-businesswoman-woman-2167840/

In her second “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Kar­en Sim­monds sets out her con­cerns about women in travel & tour­ism and broad­er soci­ety and how she’s tak­ing action. As I write, we have recently cel­eb­rated Inter­na­tion­al Women’s Day on March 8. I was encour­aged to see its theme and hasht­ag, #ChoosetoChal­lenge, being used in vari­ous circles. Here […]

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What do the people want? Reimagining Pacific Island travel & tourism

, and March 16, 2021
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Reimagining pacific island tourism for host communities. Image (c) Pedram Pirnia

Thanks to its pan­­dem­ic-induced pause, travel & tour­ism has an oppor­tun­ity to rein­vent itself to bet­ter serve the aspir­a­tions of des­tin­a­tion com­munit­ies, accord­ing to Apis­a­lome Movono, Regina Scheyvens, and Soph­ie Auck­ram. The Mas­sey Uni­ver­sity research­ers draw on their ongo­ing study of five Pacific Island states to argue why the industry should be more attuned to […]

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Back to the future: Time for more ambitious climate action from travel & tourism

March 12, 2021

New hope through climate friendly travel SUNx Malta

Pres­id­ent of “Good Tour­ism” Part­ner SUNx Malta, Geof­frey Lip­man, reports: “UN Cli­mate Chief Patri­cia Espinosa has form­ally con­firmed to our SDG 17 part­ner Glor­ia Guevara at the WTTC top level sup­port for the SUNx Malta Cli­mate Friendly Travel Registry, and urged travel & tour­ism organ­isa­tions to file their car­bon reduc­tion plans.” Here is Pro­fess­or Lip­man’s […]

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Going local: Riverside Boutique Resort, Vang Vieng, Laos

and March 11, 2021

A meal with a Vang Vieng view Riverside Boutique Resort, Vang Vieng, Laos

Sus­tain­able exper­i­ences reach into themed rooms at the River­side Boutique Resort in Vang Vieng, Laos while Gen­er­al Man­ager Math­ieu Thaer­on cuts con­sump­tion by rely­ing on com­mon sense and a clued-in staff. This is the second Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Laos Show­case by “Good Tour­ism” Des­tin­a­tion Part­ner WeAre­Lao. Today’s trav­el­lers demand sus­tain­ab­il­ity and authen­t­ic exper­i­ences. River­side deliv­ers both.  “The moment […]

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