UK Aid encourages inclusive tourism in Myanmar

June 20, 2018

Inclusive tourism in Myanmar

The UK Aid-fun­­ded Busi­ness Innov­a­tion Facil­ity (BIF) pro­ject has released a high-qual­ity video about inclus­ive tour­ism in Myan­mar. The pro­ject has been work­ing with Myan­mar’s private sec­tor to intro­duce and encour­age take-up of the concept of inclus­ive tour­ism. For the past four years long time Asia Pacific sus­tain­able tour­ism advoc­ate, Steve Noakes, has been senior […]

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Goodbye freeloading, hello free thinking; the Travel Foundation asks “Who pays?”

May 26, 2018
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Little Venice quay flooded with tourists

When you next go on vaca­tion, who will pay? It’s a simple ques­tion and you may think the answer is obvi­ous: you, the cus­tom­er. But are trav­el­lers cov­er­ing their costs? Experts at a roundtable event organ­ised by Cor­nell Uni­ver­sity were asked that ques­tion and they answered with a resound­ing “no”. All those around the table — aca­dem­ics and representatives […]

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China pledges another three years of ‘toilet revolution’ to boost tourism

November 20, 2017

China pledges another three years of 'toilet revolution' to boost tourism

China announced on Sunday plans to build and upgrade 64,000 pub­lic toi­lets between 2018 to 2020 as part of its “toi­let revolu­tion” aimed at boost­ing tour­ism and lift­ing the sec­tor’s con­tri­bu­tion to eco­nom­ic growth. China has been keen to devel­op and expand ser­vices indus­tries to move away from debt-fueled and invest­­ment-driv­en growth, while off­set­ing the […]

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Terrorism and tourism’s diabolical relationship

November 17, 2017

Terrorism and tourism's diabolical relationship

Ayşegül Acar, research assist­ant at Kar­abük Uni­ver­sity, Tur­key, and doc­tor­al stu­dent at Istan­bul Uni­ver­sity, explores the dis­com­fit­ing rela­tion­ship between ter­ror­ism and tour­ism in this “GT” Insight. Bombs explod­ing one after anoth­er, vehicles plough­ing through masses of people, media cov­er­age, and the responses of those in power; they all cre­ate ten­sion, inter­na­tion­al con­flict, dis­order, and political […]

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The “Good Tourism” Podcast #2: How to be a plastic-free hotel in 15 minutes

and November 15, 2017

plastic-free hotel

As co-founder of the not-for-profit Refill NOT Land­fill in Cam­bod­ia, Chris­ti­an de Boer claims a hotel can oblit­er­ate its reli­ance on plastic water bottles in about 15 minutes.  All it takes is will­power, a sig­na­ture, and a will­ing­ness to absorb or pass on about a dol­lar a day per guest. With more than a dec­ade’s worth […]

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Why we are banning tourists from climbing Uluru

November 8, 2017

climbing Uluru will be banned from 2019

The Uluru-Kata Tjuta Nation­al Park board of man­age­ment has announced that tour­ists will be banned from climb­ing Uluru from 2019. Uluru, formerly known in Eng­lish as Ayer­’s Rock, is an icon­ic sand­stone rock form­a­tion that rises dra­mat­ic­ally from the flat plains of Aus­trali­a’s red centre. Kata Tjuta (“many heads”), 25 km to the west as […]

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