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

and October 28, 2025

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

October 26, 2025

'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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Unveiling freedom: Muslim women tourists in the West

October 8, 2025

Unveiling freedom: Muslim women tourists in the West Four people sit on the beach, facing the sea image by Carl Tronders (CC0) via Unsplash. "GT" cropped it, tweaked colours, and added "New horizons". https://unsplash.com/photos/four-people-sit-on-the-beach-facing-the-sea-KkJKh8CntsQ

Travel is often about break­ing free. In this spir­it, accord­ing to Ahmed Abdel Fat­tah, West­ern des­tin­a­tions offer veiled Muslim women tour­ists a unique chance to explore who they are, chal­lenge the norms of their own soci­et­ies, and exper­i­ence a refresh­ing sense of freedom.

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Green Destinations appoints Kevin Phun lead expert for Southeast Asia, Pacific

October 3, 2025

Green Destinations appoints Kevin Phun lead expert for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Pic description: “I was on a layover in Singapore and decided to visit the Super Tree Grove at Gardens by the Bay. I arrived in the late afternoon and the lighting was brilliant. This is taken from the walkway connecting the trees. Just an amazing site to visit, especially at sunset.” _ Coleen Rivas (CC0) via Unsplash. “GT” added "Branching OUT".

Green Des­tin­a­tions has appoin­ted Kev­in Phun as lead inde­pend­ent expert for South­east Asia and the Pacific. Mr Phun will engage des­tin­a­tions, busi­nesses, and experts in Green Des­tin­a­tions and Good Travel Alli­ance programs.

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