Beyond sustainability: Regenerative hospitality helps restore Sri Lankan culture and heritage

August 7, 2025

"Good Tourism" guest author Dr Ashika Kalubadanage better appreciates her cultural heritage in Sri Lanka thanks to regenerative hospitality

Can cul­ture bundled into tour­ism products retain its ‘authen­t­ic’ cre­den­tials and deliv­er her­it­age value to host com­munit­ies and visitors? 

UK-based tour­ism edu­cat­or Ashi­ka Kalu­badan­age reck­ons so as she recon­nects with her own ances­tral her­it­age in Sri Lanka.

Thanks to “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner Tourism’s Hori­zon: Travel for the Mil­lions for invit­ing Dr Ashi­ka Kalu­badan­age to write this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. (You can too.)

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Detty December: The rise of diaspora tourism in Nigeria

July 31, 2025

The colourful Calabar Carnival, ‘Africa’s Biggest Street Party’, is where tradition and modernity can mingle and is part of Detty December, a diaspora tourism draw. Pic by Teemages, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Detty Decem­ber is peak sea­son for tour­ism in Niger­ia thanks to the arrival of hun­dreds of thou­sands of expat­ri­ate Nigeri­ans and tour­ists with Nigeri­an her­it­age. Dia­spora tour­ism is a boon to Nigeri­a’s eco­nomy and a life­line to many of its ter­tiary indus­tries, includ­ing tour­ism. But can it be sus­tained, extended?

Thanks to “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner Tourism’s Hori­zon: Travel for the Mil­lions for invit­ing Dr Shola Osinaike to write this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. (You too can write one.)

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What is good tourism? “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel wrap May-June 2025

June 30, 2025

What is good tourism in May-June 2025? Perhaps it is sharing surplus produce with your neighbours … Photo of sharing surplus tomatoes by Elaine Casap (CC0) via Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/bowl-of-tomatoes-served-on-person-hand-qgHGDbbSNm8

Wel­come to the May-June 2025 wrap of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences shared by friends and Part­ners of The “Good Tour­ism” Blog. [You too can share.] What is good tour­ism? Per­haps it is shar­ing sur­plus pro­duce with your neigh­bours … “Good Tour­ism” nev­er defines ‘good tour­ism’. Your cor­res­pond­ent would nev­er be so bold. […]

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Signalling or substance in tourism: What’s your take?

June 17, 2025

Signalling or substance in tourism: What's your take? Image generated by Gemini AI. "GT" cropped it and added the words.

Sig­nalling or sub­stance: What’s your assess­ment of the cur­rent bal­ance between ‘vir­tue sig­nalling’ and genu­ine ‘best prac­tice’ in the tour­ism industry where you live, work, or operate?

Have a thought to share? Respond in the com­ments at any time.

Thanks to the fol­low­ing five respond­ents for tak­ing the time to share their thoughts: 

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Outbound doesn’t care about sustainability | Well-being must include meaning

June 2, 2025

Outbound doesn’t care about sustainability | Well-being must include meaning | BiteX | Photo by David Courbit (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-turtle-in-water-during-daytime-M8xxVih_V_U "GT" cropped it and added the words.

Thanks to Kev­in Phun for his thoughts about out­bound travel agents’ and tour oper­at­ors’ rela­tion­ship with the notion of sus­tain­ab­il­ity, and Wolfgang Georg Arlt for shar­ing his think­ing around well-being and meaning. 

Their responses appear in the order received. 

Click/touch a name to go to their “GT” Insight BiteX:

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50% off responsible tourism, sustainability courses to mark World Environment Day

and May 31, 2025

50% off responsible tourism, sustainability courses to mark World Environment Day. Map image by Gerd Altmann (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/earth-continents-globalization-634815/

Greet­ings to all tour­ism stake­hold­ers!  June 5 is World Envir­on­ment Day. To make the day a little more mean­ing­ful for those who want to learn more, we at the Centre for Respons­ible Tour­ism Singa­pore are pleased to offer you 50% off for all our online courses.  Receive 50% off CRTS’ respons­ible tour­ism courses — use coupon code crts-50-off-all […]

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