The PR challenge of opening Thailand safely to inbound travel & tourism

March 11, 2021
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Smiling eyes of a Bangkok taxi driver. Image by David Gillbanks

The COV­­ID-induced travel & tour­ism depres­sion has hit Thai­l­and hard. Ranked eighth in terms of inter­na­tion­al vis­it­or arrivals in 2019, Thai­l­and is the poorest of the des­tin­a­tions in the top 10. It is no won­der then that an industry-led pub­lic rela­tions cam­paign advoc­at­ing for a safe reopen­ing has emerged: #OpenThai­l­and­Safely. Head­ing up its mes­saging and […]

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Losing Lutruwita: Tourism troubles in Tasmania’s World Heritage wilderness

March 9, 2021

At the centre of a controversy is Halls Island on Lake Malbena in the middle of Walls of Jerusalem National Park, which is part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, Tasmania, Australia. Image by Rob Blakers (c) supplied by Tom Allen of the Wilderness Society Tasmania.At the centre of a controversy is Halls Island on Lake Malbena in the middle of Walls of Jerusalem National Park, which is part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, Tasmania, Australia. Image by Rob Blakers (c) supplied by Tom Allen of the Wilderness Society Tasmania.

The World Her­it­age wil­der­ness of Lut­ruwita (the palawa kani name for the island of Tas­mania) is under threat from col­lu­sion between state gov­ern­ment and private tour­ism interests, accord­ing to Tom Allen. The Wil­der­ness Soci­ety cam­paign man­ager reck­ons tour­ism does best when it com­ple­ments not com­prom­ises nat­ur­al val­ues. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. Upon sign­ing the […]

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Good news in tourism March 1 – 7, 2021

March 7, 2021

Calmness calls out the clouds at The Knoll, Walpole, Western Australia

Because: “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer your­self any dir­ec­tion you choose.” _ Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr Seuss) 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 […]

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WWOOF! An alternative tourism in times of turmoil

March 3, 2021

Insta-worthy WWOOFing experiences; a screen capture from the WWOOF Instagram page

Not to be con­fused with dog­ging, WWOOF­ing is a rur­al tour­ism concept that com­bines volun­tour­ism with organ­ic farm­ing and cul­tur­al exchange. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, former WWOOF­er and cur­rent aca­dem­ic Yana Wen­gel explains why WWOOF and oth­er altern­at­ive forms of tour­ism could be just what we need. [Thanks to Joseph M Cheer for invit­ing Dr […]

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Climate change, COVID-19, and the need for global systemic change

March 2, 2021

Working women protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh. By MARUF_RAHMAN (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/women-crowd-protest-protesters-5963960/

Tan­ner C Knorr picks up themes dis­cussed in a webin­ar by the US-based Cen­ter for Respons­ible Travel and maps them onto five core ten­ets of the Future of Tour­ism Coali­tion. Mr Knorr is the founder of two “Good Tour­ism” Part­ners: Second Look World­wide and Off Sea­son Adven­tures. This is his fourth “Good Tour­ism” Insight. “Crisis […]

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Tourism’s democratic deficit

February 25, 2021

There's more than one way. By geralt (CC0) via Pixabay.

Travel & tour­is­m’s host com­munit­ies need altern­at­ive vis­ions for devel­op­ment and the power to choose between them, accord­ing to lec­turer and writer Jim Butcher. It’s his second “Good Tour­ism” Insight. Eth­ic­al tour­ism is strongly asso­ci­ated with ‘com­munity empower­ment’ and ‘loc­al par­ti­cip­a­tion’. But how does this relate to the import­ant debates raging about nation­al demo­cracy: populism, […]

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