Water & waste management

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How a human rights approach can help hotels improve their water management

and October 18, 2022

Hotels and the human right to water. Image by mrjn Photography (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/YpZ2cj4s0oo

Accom­mod­a­tion ser­vice pro­viders are expec­ted to hon­our the human right to water of all those around them.  Hoteliers should view this respons­ib­il­ity not as a bur­den, but as an oppor­tun­ity to mean­ing­fully and con­tinu­ally engage with des­tin­a­tion stake­hold­ers while devel­op­ing more effi­cient and sus­tain­able water and waste man­age­ment sys­tems. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight by […]

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One tourism beach at a time: Local action can help turn the tide on marine plastic

August 17, 2021

One piece at a time, one beach at a time: Tourism can stem the tide and then turn the tide on marine plastic pollution. By Karuvadgraphy (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/sunrise-sunset-grass-morning-dusk-4807648/

Even the smal­lest steps taken by travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers to counter the glob­al threat of ocean plastic pol­lu­tion are import­ant, accord­ing to PhD can­did­ate Kriszt­ina Elefther­­i­ou-Hoc­­sak. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, she dis­cusses the loc­al actions taken by a non­profit organ­isa­tion in Cyprus. [Thanks to Tazim Jamal for invit­ing Ms Elefther­­i­ou-Hoc­­sak to write a […]

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Save to sustain: Frugal innovation & traditional knowledge in circular tourism

July 13, 2021

Island. By Tomas Anunziata (CC0) via Pexels. https://www.pexels.com/photo/island-with-floating-boat-from-drone-3876404/ Vine. By gyromatical (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/vine-frame-border-leaves-wreath-6184947/ Family. By Clker-Free-Vector-Images (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/vectors/family-parents-kids-children-young-43873/

Angelo Sciacca was the first guest author to intro­duce the concept of the cir­cu­lar eco­nomy to this web­site when he argued for its poten­tial to make small island des­tin­a­tions more resi­li­ent and less depend­ent on travel & tour­ism. In this, his third “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Mr Sciacca adds frugal innov­a­tion and tra­di­tion­al know­ledge to his […]

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With sustainable aviation fuel, is a new era of green air travel possible by 2025?

November 24, 2020

Image by 12659751 (CC0) via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/plane-city-architecture-airplane-4245416/

Neville Har­greaves is work­ing at tech­no­logy firm Velo­cys on turn­ing every­day waste into jet fuel at a com­mer­cial scale. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Dr Har­greaves explains why he thinks sus­tain­able avi­ation fuel is the only real­ist­ic near-term solu­tion to air travel’s cli­mate quandary. The ongo­ing impact of COVID-19 has been debil­it­at­ing, but it has […]

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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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Piling up: India tourism’s growing waste management problem

June 3, 2019
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India's beautiful iconic Taj Mahal and a pile of waste. Combines right-free images by Roney John (Taj Mahal) via Pexels and MrsBrown (the waste) via Pixabay.

Sus­tain­able tour­ism lead­er Tejas Joseph sum­mar­ises the waste man­age­ment chal­lenges facing India and its travel, tour­ism, and hos­pit­al­ity sec­tors, and recom­mends the first step towards tak­ing respons­ib­il­ity for it. Travel & tour­ism accoun­ted for 9.2% of India’s GDP in 2018 and facil­it­ated 8.1% of employ­ment. Fur­ther, the travel & tour­ism industry in India is slated to […]

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