What is good tourism? “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel September-October 2025

October 31, 2025

What is good tourism? “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel wrap September-October 2025. Share good tourism as you would a plate of hummus. Pic by Christopher Alvarenga (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/white-ceramic-plate-with-pasta-dish-5uYH4yTDp34

Wel­come to the Septem­ber-Octo­ber 2025 wrap of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences shared by friends and Part­ners of ‘The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’ and “GT” Travel Blog’.

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Thailand’s waterways to become quieter, cleaner as electric engine secures finance


POSITIV's EV Boat electric boat engine secures EXO finance which may mean Thailand's waterways are set to become quieter and cleaner

A social enter­prise design­ing low-car­bon, com­munity-based tour­ism exper­i­ences has launched Thailand’s first elec­tric long­tail boat engine, the EV Boat, redu­cing car­bon emis­sions by 96% and cut­ting fuel costs dramatically.

What will POSITIV Group do with a USD 20,000 micro­loan from EXO Foundation’s Reset Tour­ism Fund?

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How Anh Duong turns plastic waste into products, learnings, livelihoods in Vietnam


How Anh Duong turns plastic waste into products, learnings, livelihoods in Vietnam

In the heart of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, plastic waste is more than an envir­on­ment­al issue; it is a com­munity challenge. 

Anh Duong Cen­ter is facing up to the chal­lenge by turn­ing plastic waste into products, learn­ings, and livelihoods. 

Their innov­at­ive school-based mod­el has earned recog­ni­tion from the 2025 EXO Found­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Awards in the ‘People’ category.

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‘Tourism’s Horizon: Travel for the Millions’ book explores tourism’s humanity and agency


'Tourism's Horizon: Travel for the Millions' book

‘Tourism’s Hori­zon: Travel for the Mil­lions’ — the Substack blog and “GT” Part­ner — has pub­lished a book of the same name com­piled by its founder Jim Butcher. 

In ‘Tourism’s Hori­zon: Travel for the Mil­lions’, the jour­ney through mass tour­ism is examined not merely as a glob­al industry, but as a dynam­ic cul­tur­al and social phe­nomen­on that touches everyone. 

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Overtourism and overimmigration are the same?

October 15, 2025

A Gemini-generated image from the prompt: "Create an abstract image representing overtourism and overimmigration". "GT" added "Over it".

Over­tour­ism’ and ‘over­im­mig­ra­tion’ are sub­ject­ive terms that mean essen­tially the same thing. 

Dis­cuss.

Thanks to Chris Kit­tish­in­nak­uppe, Nic­olaus Sulistyo, and John Mor­ris Wil­li­ams for tak­ing the time to con­sider the question. 

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Can social media content creators promote peace through tourism in Israel and Palestine?

October 12, 2025

Can social media content creators promote peace through tourism in Israel and Palestine? Image generated by Gemini prompted by the headline of this post. "GT" added the words.

As the fra­gile first phase of a new peace deal com­mences in Gaza, Ahmed Abdel Fat­tah pon­ders the poten­tial for social media con­tent cre­at­ors to con­sol­id­ate con­nec­tions and pro­mote peace through tour­ism in Israel and Palestine.

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