How running water changes lives: Tourism takes a second look in Tanzania

December 9, 2019

Fresh water runs from a newly-installed tap into the cupped hands of a Tanzanian man

Tan­ner C Knorr, Pres­id­ent of “GT” Insight Part­ner Second Look World­wide, takes us to Kakoi vil­lage in Tan­zania — the first bene­fi­ciary of a prag­mat­ic approach to sup­port­ing com­munit­ies that are dir­ectly affected by, or live adja­cent to, tour­ism activ­ity.  When trav­el­ling to devel­op­ing coun­tries, noti­cing dis­crep­an­cies between the areas of tour­ism and those imme­di­ately out­side is […]

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Good news in tourism December 1 – 7, 2019

December 8, 2019

Inuksuk Point (Inuksugalait, “where there are many Inuksuit“), Foxe Peninsula (Baffin Island), Nunavut, Canada. By Ansgar Walk - photo taken by Ansgar Walk (CC BY-SA 2.5) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=602815

Wel­come to The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s first sum­mary of and links to a week of good news and quirk­i­ness in the world of travel & tour­ism. Pub­lished on Sunday to be ready on Monday morn­ing, it’s the per­fect pos­it­ive start to a work­ing week in travel & tour­ism! Share it with your col­leagues. In no […]

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Culture & heritage focus for first “Good Tourism” Insight Partnership

November 21, 2019

Image by Anonymous Traveller from Pixabay

The World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture & Her­it­age (WTACH) is the first “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner. As a “GT” Insight Part­ner, WTACH will inspire deep­er industry-wide con­ver­sa­tions around cul­ture & her­it­age tour­ism.  WTACH will reg­u­larly identi­fy and invite an opin­ion or prac­tice lead­er work­ing in the area of cul­ture & her­it­age tour­ism to write a […]

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Pay attention: Massive opportunities in culture & heritage tourism

November 21, 2019
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Rapa Nui, Easter Island, Moai stands guard

Chris Flynn, Pres­id­ent & CEO of “GT” Insight Part­ner the World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture & Her­it­age (WTACH), reflects on the reas­ons why he formed the organ­isa­tion and why it behoves travel & tour­ism industry stake­hold­ers at the des­tin­a­tion level to pay atten­tion and get involved. The estab­lish­ment of the World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Culture […]

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SUN, WTTC report strong on “existential climate crisis” & tourism’s response

October 2, 2019

cft ambitions report 2019 snip

The SUNx (“Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work”) Pro­gram has issued its first annu­al “Cli­mate Friendly Travel – Ambi­tion Report”.  Pre­pared on the side­lines of the Septem­ber UN Gen­er­al Assembly and in col­lab­or­a­tion with the World Travel & Tour­ism Coun­cil (WTTC) “to sup­port a Cli­mate Neut­ral Travel & Tour­ism Sec­tor by 2050”, the doc­u­ment was made avail­able to […]

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How can travel & tourism protect children from sexual exploitation?

September 24, 2019
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how travel tourism protects children from sexual exploitation

Jod­ie Spen­cer tells us why the travel & tour­ism industry has a cru­cial role to play in pro­tect­ing chil­dren from sexu­al exploit­a­tion, out­lines some of the loc­al and glob­al efforts to do just that, and sug­gests how we can all play our part. Travel & tour­ism brings a great deal to loc­al com­munit­ies. It gen­er­ates 10% […]

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