What local tourism students know about Phuket that global sustainability leaders do not

April 30, 2026

What do local tourism students know about Phuket that global sustainability leaders do not? A Gemini-generated image. "GT" added the words.

Trans­ition­ing from an emer­ging hot­spot to an estab­lished tour­ism-led eco­nomy is complex. 

Ken Drew exam­ines the grow­ing pains of Phuket, Thai­l­and where loc­als, includ­ing his former tour­ism stu­dents, too often find them­selves in danger.

Fol­low­ing last week’s Glob­al Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Coun­cil con­fer­ence on the island — planned amid reports of deadly land­slides, tox­ic fires, and poor air qual­ity — a ques­tion arises …

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Business travel recovery under way in Asia Pacific … but it’s complicated 

December 9, 2022

Business travel: It's complicated. Photo by Rob Wilson (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/WuD-H9IQnfg

Busi­ness travel in Asia Pacific — and glob­ally — is recov­er­ing strongly post-COV­­ID, along with the tour­ism industry more gen­er­ally.  How­ever, the rebound is com­plic­ated by linger­ing con­cerns about health and safety (the duty of care employ­ers and travel man­agers should have to busi­ness trav­el­lers), as well as ESG (envir­on­ment­al, social, and gov­ernance) wor­ries. Del­eg­ates heard about this on […]

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