Why ‘The “Good Tourism” Blog’ won’t be declaring a climate emergency

January 16, 2020
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Illustration of woman on suitcase in stormy sea being attacked by gulls. By unknown (CC0) via pxfuel https://www.pxfuel.com/en/free-photo-qgjsy

The short answer is: It’s not “GT’s” role! At writ­ing, 26 tour­ism organ­isa­tions and five indi­vidu­als had declared a glob­al cli­mate emer­gency on behalf of the multi-tril­lion dol­lar travel & tour­ism industry. Among the sig­nat­or­ies is “GT” Friend Susanne Beck­en who, in her declar­a­tion and plan, quotes Greta Thun­berg: “I don’t want your hope, I […]

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Her beauty and her terror … The wide brown land, Australia, is open for business

January 14, 2020

Epicormic regrowth from the base of a Eucalyptus tree, four months after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Strathewen, Victoria. Pic by Robert Kerton, CSIRO (CC BY 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/CSIRO_ScienceImage_10408_Eucalypt_regrowth_after_Black_Saturday_bushfires.jpg

“The best way to sup­port Aus­tralia, Aus­trali­an com­munit­ies, and the tour­ism sec­tor is to keep vis­it­ing,” says Tour­ism Aus­tralia on its bush­fire inform­a­tion resources web page. “If you can­not travel to an affected area due to bush­fires, one of the many ways to help includes res­chedul­ing instead of can­celing …”  If you didn’t already know, your […]

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Good news in tourism January 5 – 11, 2020

January 12, 2020

Community-based tourism entrepreneurship training near Kibale National Park in Uganda. Image supplied by James Nadiope.

Wel­come to The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s weekly remind­er — if you need it — that as a tour­ism stake­hold­er YOU are NOT bad! You are prob­ably pretty good, actu­ally; one of the many tour­ism industry people or trav­el­lers doing what you know to be good while know­ing there is more to know to be bet­ter. Pub­lished on Sunday to […]

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It’s not ‘no’. It’s ‘know’. A travel tip for good tourists and responsible travellers

January 9, 2020
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It's not 'no'. It's 'know.' A "Good Tourism" travel tip; travel advice for good tourists & responsible travellers.

How can one be a good tour­ist and a respons­ible trav­el­ler?  An easy-to-remem­ber rhyme might help; one that acknow­ledges that there is always more to know and there­fore nev­er gets old.  What do you think about this as a catch-all travel tip or philo­sophy for trav­el­lers? Update, June 2021: If you clicked over from The “GT” […]

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How bees, trees, & tourism reduce human-wildlife conflict in Uganda

January 7, 2020

Looking relaxed. Chimp, Kibale, Uganda by Rod Waddington (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/rod_waddington/23355595510/

James Nadi­ope estab­lished the Africa Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Care Found­a­tion to address the prob­lem of human-wild­life con­flicts tak­ing place around Kibale Nation­al Park in west­ern Uganda. AST­CF’s first pro­ject was at Kahangi vil­lage, where com­munity con­sulta­tion led to the emer­gence of both tra­di­tion­al and mod­ern solu­tions to old prob­lems. One of those solu­tions was, of course, […]

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Good news in tourism Dec 28, 2019 to Jan 4, 2020

January 5, 2020

Featured image: West Indian manatee resting at Three Sisters Springs, Crystal River, Florida, USA. A school of mangrove snapper enjoy the shade. By Keith Ramos and the US Fish & Wildlife Service (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwshq/7636814558

Wel­come to 2020 and Earth’s most fun sum­mary of a week of good news in travel & tour­ism. Pub­lished on Sunday to be ready on Monday, it’s the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a work­ing week (and year); a remind­er that the tour­ism industry, tour­ism people, and trav­el­lers can be so very good!  In no […]

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