“Good Tourism” supports the second World Heritage mini-conference

February 25, 2019

Lamington blue spiny crayfish encountered on the Coomera circuit walking track in the Binna Burra section Lamington National Park in Queensland, Australia. Photo by Tatters (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr. "GT" cropped and enhanced the image. https://www.flickr.com/photos/tgerus/12250342224/in/photostream/

UPDATE (May 16, 2019). The organ­isers have decided to post­pone the planned two-day mini-con­­fer­­ence at Binna Burra Lodge in Octo­ber 2019 and make it a three-day event in 2020 — from Tues­day, Octo­ber 13 to Thursday, Octo­ber 15. The first World Her­­it­age-themed mini-con­­fer­­ence took place over three days at the Binna Burra Lodge in Octo­ber 2018.  The top­ic was ‘Man­aging the growth of […]

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Vale Ian Oelrichs, “strategic thinker & visionary”

February 25, 2019
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Endemic tourism concept co-creator, Ian Oelrichs, passed away Feb 24, 2019

Co-cre­at­or of the concept of “endem­ic tour­ism”, Ian Oel­richs OAM passed away Feb­ru­ary 24, 2019.  A land­scape archi­tect and urb­an design­er by trade, Mr Oel­richs had more than 40 years of exper­i­ence in devel­op­ment, nat­ur­al resource man­age­ment, and tour­ism. (Linked­In.) In 2011 Mr Oel­richs received the Medal of the Order of Aus­tralia (OAM) hon­our for his […]

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Former FARC rebels turn ecotourism guides, but peace remains fragile

February 22, 2019
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Colombia has its ecotourism treasures such as the Caño Cristales waterfall. Image by Mario Carvajal (CC BY 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CA%C3%91O_CRISTALES,_SECTOR_LOS_OCHOS_(COLOMBIA).jpg

About 30 of the estim­ated 12,000 FARC mem­bers demo­bil­ised under a peace accord with Colom­bi­a’s gov­ern­ment have chosen eco­tour­ism as a path to rein­teg­ra­tion. The travel & tour­ism industry would do well to sup­port them. Full story by Ana­stas­ia Molo­ney writ­ing for the Thom­son Reu­ters Found­a­tion. As a former rebel fight­er, Ximena Cruz used to […]

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Five insights that could move tourism closer to sustainability: Lecturer

February 21, 2019

insights sustainable toursm destination Rotorua Hotpool New Zealand Thermal Wonderland

Jason Paul Mika of Mas­sey Uni­ver­sity shares five insights on the role of tour­ism in sus­tain­able devel­op­ment: Tour­ism is New Zealand’s biggest export earner, con­trib­ut­ing 21% of for­eign exchange earn­ings. The latest data show tour­ists added NZ$39.1 bil­lion to the eco­nomy and the industry has seen a 44% increase over the past five years. But […]

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The cause of overtourism & how tourism can avoid choking on success

February 19, 2019
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Tourist go home messages are getting louder and more frequent as overtourism becomes a problem too big to ignore. Image by Duncan Hull (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/29569046192

World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture & Her­it­age (WTACH) Pres­id­ent & CEO Chris Flynn weighs in on the over­tour­ism dis­cus­sion in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. Mr Flynn iden­ti­fies the cause of over­tour­ism and how the tour­ism industry might avoid more of it. We are hear­ing more and more about “over­tour­ism” and the neg­at­ive impact it is having […]

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Balearic Islands’ new climate change law to reduce reliance on tourism

February 13, 2019

Popular tourism beach Cala Anguilla, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Image by lapping via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/en/cala-anguila-mallorca-1998320/

Spain’s Balear­ic Islands has approved a cli­mate change law that com­mits the pop­u­lar tour­ism des­tin­a­tion to sourcing all its energy from renew­ables by 2050. Balear­ic Islands pres­id­ent Fran­cina Armen­gol said the new law was “an oppor­tun­ity to rein­force our brand as a sus­tain­able des­tin­a­tion”. Balear­ic Islands energy min­is­ter Marc Pons reck­ons the law is part of […]

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