What is good tourism? “Good Tourism” and “GT” Travel news and good news in travel & tourism …

The “Good Tour­ism” Blog is not in the busi­ness of telling you what ‘good tour­ism’ is. It’s pub­lish­er would nev­er claim to know. Rather, this web­site offers people the chance to share their per­spect­ives. Find below wraps of recent “Good Tour­ism” Insights, and the latest news from the net­work that makes “GT” possible.

Free­dom of move­ment, with­in reas­on, is a basic human right. And travel & tour­ism is everyone’s busi­ness. ‘Every­one’ includes not only people who earn a liv­ing from the travel & tour­ism industry, but also people who travel, and people who live in places that are trav­elled to and through.

EVERYONE.

That’s why “GT” reck­ons you should get into the habit of read­ing these posts and shar­ing them with your col­leagues and friends. And then dive deep­er into “Good Tour­ism” Insights for ideas on how to make respons­ible travel & sus­tain­able tour­ism bet­ter … for you, for your people, and for your place. For they are your people. And it is your place.

The “Good Tour­ism” Blo­g’s “What is good tour­ism?” posts sum­mar­ise the most recent month or two of “GT” Insights, “GT” Part­ner news, and “GT” Travel posts. In 2025, “Good Tour­ism” renamed these con­tent wraps from “Good news in travel & tour­ism” to “What is good tour­ism?”. “GT” retired its weekly “Good news in tour­ism” posts in April 2021.

Good news in tourism Mar 29 to Apr 4, 2020

April 5, 2020

Downtown Seattle, Washington state, USA at sunset. By Tiffany Von Arnim (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/tiffany98101/15623134190

With insights rep­res­ent­ing the small, the medi­um, and the large; the private, the pub­lic, and the PPP; those who care about profit and those who are not-for-profit; received wis­dom and het­ero­dox views; The “Good Tour­ism” Blog is a truly inclus­ive plat­form for the travel & tour­ism industry as it grapples with respons­ib­il­it­ies, dreams of sustainability, […]

Read More Good news in tourism Mar 29 to Apr 4, 2020

Good news in tourism March 22 – 28, 2020

March 29, 2020

A masked and gloved couple in love at the 2010 Carnival of Venice. By Frank Kovalchek (CC BY 2.0) via Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Venice#/media/File:Venice_Carnival_-_Masked_Lovers_(2010).jpg

Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism. And go! “GT” stuff first (scroll down to skip): The “Good Tour­ism” Blog will push through this COVID-19 crisis, bring­ing you the usu­al links to pos­it­ive industry news and ideas via “Good […]

Read More Good news in tourism March 22 – 28, 2020

Good news in tourism March 15 – 21, 2020

March 22, 2020

Home to port, Luang Prabang, Laos. Image by David Gillbanks,

Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism. And go! “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work says tour­ism “can walk and chew gum at the same time” when it comes to deal­ing with COVID-19 and aspir­ing to SUNx’s […]

Read More Good news in tourism March 15 – 21, 2020

Good news in tourism March 8 – 14, 2020

March 15, 2020

Couple dancing in Argentina. Source (CC0). https://www.pickpik.com/emotional-couple-tango-dance-argentina-buenos-aires-4467

Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new work week in travel & tour­ism. And go! The World Eco­nom­ic For­um (WEF) describes itself as “a plat­form for the world’s 1,000 lead­ing com­pan­ies”. Main­stream media and politi­cians hang on to WEF’s every utter­ance, pre­sum­ably because […]

Read More Good news in tourism March 8 – 14, 2020

Good news in tourism March 1 – 7, 2020

March 8, 2020

“It’s not easy being green” _ Kermit the Frog. Image by Markus Spiske (CC0).

Pub­lished Sunday to be ready on Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new work week. Let’s get stuck in … And go! Import­ant “GT” stuff first: “GT” asked a sample of Tour­ism Declares Cli­mate Change sig­nat­or­ies what they meant by “sys­tem change” and “urgent reg­u­lat­ory action” and on Tuesday […]

Read More Good news in tourism March 1 – 7, 2020

Good news in tourism February 23 – 29, 2020

March 1, 2020

Akhona and her Xhosa bread & harvesting onions from the Elundini community garden, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Images supplied by "GT" Friend Lieve Claessen.

After a week of rising fears and a big can­cel­la­tion, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new work week. And go! “GT” pub­lished a fresh “GT” Insight on Fri­day about a back­pack­ers in a rur­al com­munity at the edge of Hogs­back, East­ern Cape, South Africa. It’s a small tourism […]

Read More Good news in tourism February 23 – 29, 2020