How a small South African backpackers is making a big community-based difference

February 28, 2020
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Elundini Backpackers homestead. Image supplied by author.

The Hogs­back region in the East­ern Cape of South Africa attracts vis­it­ors to its indi­gen­ous forests, lush moun­tain­ous land­scape, and breath­tak­ing hikes. Lieve Claessen and part­ner Elli­ot Son­jani oper­ate Elundini Back­pack­ers in a rur­al com­munity at the edge of Hogs­back. In this won­der-filled “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Lieve shares some of the ongo­ing chal­lenges facing Elundini […]

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Joint statement on tourism & COVID-19: UNWTO, WHO call for responsibility, coordination

February 26, 2020

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Joint state­ment from WHO & UNWTO: Mad­rid, Spain and Geneva, Switzer­land, 26 Feb­ru­ary 2020 – As the cur­rent out­break of the Coronavir­us Dis­ease (COVID-19) con­tin­ues to devel­op, the World Health Organ­iz­a­tion (WHO) and the World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) are com­mit­ted to work­ing togeth­er in guid­ing the travel and tour­ism sec­tors’ response to COVID-19. On 30 January […]

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Good news in tourism February 16 – 22, 2020

February 23, 2020

Coastal dreams, Algarve, Portugal. By finepic Beat (CC0) via PDP.

Happy “Good news in tour­ism day”! Pos­ted on Sunday to be ready on Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a work week. And go! Import­ant “GT” stuff first: The cli­mate-related car­bon tar­gets in the United Nations sus­tain­able devel­op­ment goals (SDGs) do not even come close to offer­ing the best value […]

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Dare to share, not declare: Travel & tourism and the reality of climate change

February 23, 2020

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Cli­mate change is real. It comes with costs. Cli­mate policy also comes with costs. The trick is to find a sens­ible bal­ance.  So said com­pas­sion­ate ration­al­ist Bjorn Lom­borg in a con­ver­sa­tion with former Deputy PM of Aus­tralia John Ander­son, which was pub­lished Fri­day on You­Tube.  Dr Lom­borg, who is Pres­id­ent of the Copen­ha­gen Con­sensus Center, […]

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Good news in tourism February 9 – 15, 2020

February 16, 2020

Featured image: The Chocolate Hills and tarsiers; two tourism-attracting reasons poverty rates have plummeted in Bohol province, the Philippines. Photo by Macario Jr Decena (CC0) via Pexels. https://www.pexels.com/photo/710626/

It’s time to choose your own adven­ture! Pos­ted on Sunday to be ready on Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a work week. And go! Import­ant “GT” stuff first: “GT” is open to ortho­dox and het­ero­dox ideas. For those who would like to share their unique per­spect­ive on what does […]

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Good news in tourism February 2 – 8, 2020

February 9, 2020

Arches National Park, north of Moab, Utah, USA. Photo by Robb Hannawacker (CC0) via GFP. https://www.goodfreephotos.com/public-domain-images/rock-and-mountains-in-the-landscape-in-arches-national-park.jpg.php

Happy “Good news in tour­ism” day! “Good news in tour­ism” is when we get woke to prob­lem­at­ic neo­co­lo­ni­al depend­en­cies wake up to the poten­tial for pos­it­ive empower­ment in our travel & tour­ism industry.  Pos­ted on Sunday to be ready on Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a work […]

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