As we sit out COVID-19, let’s think about a fair & fail-safe treatment or vaccine for overtourism

March 21, 2020
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Top image by Geralt (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/vaccine-chemist-outbreak-4946479/ Bottom image by Duncan Hull (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr, which "GT" cropped among other things. https://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/29569046192

Dur­ing this coronavir­us COVID-19 pan­dem­ic we are see­ing some­thing we have wit­nessed many times before — the fickle­ness of travel & tour­ism demand — exacer­bated by enforced travel restric­tions. As gov­ern­ments around the world shut down travel, bor­ders, and gath­er­ings of vari­ous sizes to “flat­ten the curve” of coronavir­us con­ta­gion and buy time to devel­op treat­ments and vac­cines, your […]

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Good news in tourism March 8 – 14, 2020

March 15, 2020

Couple dancing in Argentina. Source (CC0). https://www.pickpik.com/emotional-couple-tango-dance-argentina-buenos-aires-4467

Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new work week in travel & tour­ism. And go! The World Eco­nom­ic For­um (WEF) describes itself as “a plat­form for the world’s 1,000 lead­ing com­pan­ies”. Main­stream media and politi­cians hang on to WEF’s every utter­ance, pre­sum­ably because […]

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Good news in tourism March 1 – 7, 2020

March 8, 2020

“It’s not easy being green” _ Kermit the Frog. Image by Markus Spiske (CC0).

Pub­lished Sunday to be ready on Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new work week. Let’s get stuck in … And go! Import­ant “GT” stuff first: “GT” asked a sample of Tour­ism Declares Cli­mate Change sig­nat­or­ies what they meant by “sys­tem change” and “urgent reg­u­lat­ory action” and on Tuesday […]

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Signatories to Tourism Declares Climate Emergency on “system change”, “regulatory action”

March 3, 2020
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Climate Emergency. Melbourne climate march for our future. By John Englart (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/takver/46178192802/

Cli­mate change is real. How do we respond? The first four points in the Tour­ism Declares Cli­mate Emer­gency declar­a­tion are per­son­al under­tak­ings or organ­isa­tion­al com­mit­ments to plan and to change and to share and to col­lab­or­ate in rela­tion to a sig­nat­ory’s declar­a­tion of cli­mate emer­gency.  All power to them! How­ever the fifth point in the declaration […]

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Good news in tourism February 23 – 29, 2020

March 1, 2020

Akhona and her Xhosa bread & harvesting onions from the Elundini community garden, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Images supplied by "GT" Friend Lieve Claessen.

After a week of rising fears and a big can­cel­la­tion, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new work week. And go! “GT” pub­lished a fresh “GT” Insight on Fri­day about a back­pack­ers in a rur­al com­munity at the edge of Hogs­back, East­ern Cape, South Africa. It’s a small tourism […]

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First SUNx climate-friendly travel think tank releases calls to act & act now

February 29, 2020

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The key calls to action from the inaug­ur­al SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work Cli­mate Friendly Travel Think Tank that con­cluded in Malta were (accord­ing to the offi­cial press release): The Cli­mate Crisis is eXist­en­tial. All stake­hold­ers includ­ing Trans­port, Hos­pit­al­ity, Travel Ser­vices, and Infra­struc­ture Pro­viders must urgently start the trans­form­a­tion in 2020 to get onto the Par­is 1.5o […]

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