Good news in tourism September 6 – 12, 2020

September 13, 2020

Stand by. Image by natsan (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/boat-gear-technique-navigation-181657/

Because it ain’t all bad! 🙂 Pub­lished every Sunday, “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 (“GT”) news Tour­ism policy & governance […]

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As we build back better, is sustainable tourism enough to regenerate nature?

September 8, 2020

Elephants and the community (c. Mahouts Elephant Foundation)

Sus­tain­able tour­ism is a com­plex puzzle with lots of mov­ing parts. Toss in regen­er­at­ive prin­ciples and it becomes even more con­found­ing. For­tu­nately there are those who think deeply about import­ant parts of the puzzle, such as anim­al wel­fare con­sult­ant Daniel Turn­er of ANIMONDIAL. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Mr Turn­er shares how our industry might […]

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Good news in tourism Aug 30 to Sep 5, 2020

September 6, 2020

Starry night in Langtang National Park, Nepal's first Himalayan national park and the country's fourth protected area. Image by Q-lieb-in (CC BY-SA 4.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starry_night_in_Langtang_National_Park.jpg

Because you deserve to smile … 🙂 Pub­lished every Sunday, “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 travel & tour­ism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism” (“GT”) news Net-zero travel & tourism […]

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Footprints: What does it mean for travel & tourism to be carbon neutral?

September 1, 2020

Kids leave footprints in the sand as they walk along the beach. https://www.pxfuel.com/en/free-photo-oecjf

Car­bon neut­ral travel & tour­ism. Net-zero travel. Zero-car­­bon tour­ism. Car­bon footprint(s). Foot­print size. Foot­print depth.  Be care­ful where you step for the whole land­scape is a poten­tial mine­field … loc­ally, nation­ally, and glob­ally … as we nav­ig­ate cli­mate and cli­mate change. Kev­in Phun of “GT” Part­ner the Centre for Respons­ible Tour­ism Singa­pore care­fully touches on all […]

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Good news in tourism August 23 – 29, 2020

August 30, 2020

Indian leopard. By vaidyarupal (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. GT" cropped, brightened, and saturated it. https://www.flickr.com/photos/vaidyarupal/30327394012

Because tour­ism is a “won­der of the world”.  Pub­lished every Sunday, “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 travel & tour­ism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) COVID ops Tour­ism policy & gov­ernance  Net-zero travel […]

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Don’t panic: Opportunity, ingenuity will give us climate-friendly travel, tourism

August 29, 2020
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Don’t panic: Opportunity & ingenuity will give us climate-friendly travel & tourism

“Tour­ism is itself one of the won­ders of the world,” United Nations’ big boss António Guterres said as he extolled the vir­tues of our industry. That’s the good news.  How­ever, as the UN World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) warned that between 100 mil­lion and 120 mil­lion dir­ect tour­ism jobs are at risk right now, the UN secretary-general […]

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