What to keep, change, do in a crisis (and why we should give a sh*t)

February 23, 2021

A Live Ningaloo tour group encounters humpback whales. Photo: Ningaloo Aviation & Jacob Hill supplied by Live Ningaloo.

Sonia Beck­with’s tiny Aus­trali­an eco­tour­ism oper­a­tion Live Nin­ga­loo faced an exist­en­tial crisis in 2020, like so many travel & tour­ism busi­nesses glob­ally did (and still do). In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, her second, Ms Beck­with shares the value of caring — a lot! — and how she har­nesses and sus­tains it. When my part­ner and I foun­ded our micro tourism […]

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Travel & tourism’s ‘critical’ rethink and its imperative shift to circular economics

February 18, 2021
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Maya Bay, Koh Phi Phi Leh, Thailand in 2014. By 2017, tsome 3,500 people visited the beach made famous by The Beach. Image by Nicolas Vollmer (CC BY 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maya_Bay_boats.jpg overlaid by a question mark by geralt (CC0) via Pixabay. https://www.freeimg.net/photo/1633662/questionmark-who-where-how

For the sake of grow­ing well-being and shar­ing the tour­ism com­mons with the great­er major­ity, cir­cu­lar eco­nom­ic approaches to travel & tour­ism must replace neo­lib­er­al cap­it­al­ist growth mod­els. To make that argu­ment, research­er Phoebe Ever­ing­ham takes a crit­ic­al the­or­et­ic­al approach. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [Thanks to Joseph M Cheer for invit­ing Dr Ever­ing­ham to […]

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Sustainable tourism’s endless balancing act: Preserving, promoting Ras Al Khaimah

February 16, 2021

Abseiling in Ras Al Khaimah. Source: Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority

The new year is an oppor­tun­ity to reflect on the val­ues that mat­ter to the travel & tour­ism industry even after the pan­dem­ic ends, accord­ing to Raki Phil­lips of the Ras Al Khaimah Tour­ism Devel­op­ment Author­ity. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Mr Phil­lips explains how the Emir­ate is embed­ding sus­tain­ab­il­ity into everything it does. Let me […]

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Good news in tourism February 8 – 14, 2021

February 14, 2021

In Jaipu, Rajastan, India

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 Cli­mate-friendly travel […]

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What do you do when carbon offsetting is off-putting? Plant trees for travel

February 11, 2021

What do you do when carbon offsetting is off-putting? Plant trees for travel

Do you trust travel & tour­ism-related car­bon off­set schemes? Nico Nich­olas and his part­ner Elkie did­n’t, which is why they did some research and foun­ded Trees4Travel. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Mr Nich­olas shares who and what inspired them.  As an entre­pren­eur­i­al couple, Elkie and I have spent our work­ing lives trav­el­ling the globe. We […]

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Vietnam’s ‘little tiger’ meat trade and why travel & tourism should help tackle it

February 9, 2021
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May 21, 2019 in Hanoi, Vietnam: Cat in a cage, ready to be sold, killed, and cooked © FOUR PAWS

From the front line of a fight to end Viet­nam’s trade in cats for their meat, veter­in­ari­an Kath­er­ine Polak of FOUR PAWS Inter­na­tion­al explains why the cat meat trade presents a danger to travel & tour­ism, and how industry stake­hold­ers can pledge their sup­port. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight.  Images in this post may cause […]

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