How a community-based tourism & homestay network empowers women in Nepal

February 4, 2020

Women who manage the Panauti Community Homestay with some members of the CHN team

Tour­ism impact and sus­tain­ab­il­ity expert Aady­aa Pandey dis­cusses a few of the chal­lenges over­come by Nepal’s Com­munity Homestay Net­work (CHN). And she cel­eb­rates its pos­it­ive impacts. Thanks to “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner Second Look World­wide for invit­ing Aady­aa to con­trib­ute this inspir­ing “GT” Insight about a social enter­prise that arose from a mod­est yet wildly […]

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Good news in tourism Jan 26 to Feb 1, 2020

February 2, 2020

St Michaels Mount, Marazion in Cornwall, England by Fuzzypiggy (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Michael%27s_Mount_II5302_x_2982.jpg ("GT" cropped it)

Wel­come to a new week of buzzword salads smeared with fear … No way!  Fill your­self up without weigh­ing your­self down. Tuck into some­thing packed full of good­ness. Get your weekly feed of what’s really going on in the world of travel & tour­ism right here at The “Good Tour­ism” Blog. Tossed togeth­er on Sunday to […]

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Good news in tourism January 19 – 25, 2020

January 26, 2020

Myanmar smiles Tony Deary

Happy new year of the rat! Don’t pan­ic. “Good news in tour­ism” is here. Pub­lished on Sunday to be ready on Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a work­ing week. And go! Import­ant “GT” stuff first in case you missed it dur­ing the week: A fresh “GT” Insight on how […]

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SUN calls for “moon-shot” effort by aviation sector to be zero-carbon by 2050

January 24, 2020

sunx calls for decarbonisation moon-shot by aviation

“Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work — has again called for a “moon-shot” effort by the avi­ation and air trans­port sec­tor to be zero-car­­bon by 2050.  Dur­ing FITUR, the inter­na­tion­al tour­ism fair in Mad­rid, SUNx Co-Founder Geof­frey Lip­man said that the avi­ation sector’s decar­bon­isa­tion pledge — for 50% of 2005 levels — was now more than a dec­ade old and was […]

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How tourism & fishing help to save Irrawaddy dolphins in Myanmar

January 21, 2020

Fisherman standing in canoe holding net, waiting for the right time to cast it. Burma, Myanmar, Mandalay Division, Irrawaddy, Ayeyarwady river, fishing with dolphins.

The Liv­ing Irrawaddy Dol­phin Pro­ject (LIDP) is a social busi­ness sup­port­ing the pro­tec­tion of Irrawaddy dol­phins in Myanmar’s Aye­yar­wady Dol­phin Pro­tec­ted Area. LIDP is devel­op­ing a mod­el for dol­phin con­ser­va­tion through com­munity-based eco­tour­ism. Co-founder Paul Eshoo wrote this great “Good Tour­ism” Insight. UPDATE, June 2021: Giv­en the polit­ic­al situ­ation in Myan­mar and COVID-19 “GT” was […]

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Good news in tourism January 12 – 18, 2020

January 19, 2020

Tenby Harbour, Pembrokeshire, Wales by Richardjo53 (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/richardjo53/7515932720/in/photostream/

The travel & tour­ism industry is not to blame for all the world’s prob­lems, but it can and should and does assume some respons­ib­il­ity for them. And often helps solves them. That is why you should read “Good news in tour­ism” and share it with your col­leagues and friends. Pub­lished on Sunday to be ready […]

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