Good news in tourism August 9 – 15, 2020

August 16, 2020

Sunset over the Mekong, Luang Prabang, Laos. Image by David Gillbanks.

It’s all about YOU!  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.) “GT” news Post-pan­­dem­ic plans & pos­i­tion­ing Travel & tour­ism & climate […]

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How tourism averts disaster: By thinking, acting globally

August 11, 2020
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"Danger cliff edge" sign on a windswept grassy landscape. How does tourism avert disaster?

Tan­ner C Knorr is wor­ried. He’s wor­ried for travel & tour­ism-reli­ant parts of the world he thinks may be headed for a cliff’s edge, includ­ing places he knows very well. In this “GT” Insight, the founder of two “GT” part­ners sug­gests how the whole world might pull togeth­er to avert dis­aster. When COVID-19 hit I […]

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Good news in tourism August 2 – 8, 2020

August 9, 2020

Magpie goose taking flight in the Northern Territory, Australia. By Djambalawa (CC BY 3.0) via Wikipedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3948199

… because too much bad tour­ism news is bad for your men­tal health! Prob­ably. Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism.  This week’s travel & tour­ism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) “GT” news (feat. […]

Read More Good news in tourism August 2 – 8, 2020

Regenerative tourism vs sustainable tourism: What’s the difference?

and August 4, 2020
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An unfurling silver fern frond, New Zealand. By Jon Radoff (CC BY 2.5) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1380624 The koru (Māori for '"loop or coil"') symbolises "new life, growth, strength and peace"; "conveys the idea of perpetual movement" while the inner coil "suggests returning to the point of origin".

For this “GT” Insight, Susanne Beck­en and Dav­id Gill­banks cor­res­pond to explore some of the sim­il­ar­it­ies and dif­fer­ences between the new buzz phrase “regen­er­at­ive tour­ism” and the old buzz term “sus­tain­able tour­ism”. DG: In a recent piece for News­room you wrote: “The very basic under­pin­ning of regen­er­at­ive tour­ism is that it is under­stood to occur […]

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Good news in tourism Jul 26 to Aug 1, 2020

August 2, 2020

Petals within petals. Image by David Gillbanks (CC BY 4.0).

… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism.  This week in “Good news …”: Policy & gov­ernance Stayc­a­tions, hyper­loc­al tour­ism, & domest­ic tour­ism Nature-based tour­ism & eco­tour­ism Art, cul­ture, & her­it­age Friends indeed Odds & ends It’s “Good Tourism”. […]

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Good news in tourism July 19 – 25, 2020

July 26, 2020

Flora and fauna of Andros, The Bahamas. By Matt MacGillivray (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/qmnonic/6869086127/

… because it’s every­one’s busi­ness!  Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism.  This week in “Good news …”: Des­tin­a­tion devel­op­ment & invest­ment Tour­ism recov­ery Com­munity-led tour­ism  Cul­tur­al her­it­age tour­ism Wild­life tour­ism Get­ting around green Friends indeed Odds & ends It’s “Good Tour­ism”. And go! […]

Read More Good news in tourism July 19 – 25, 2020