The human touch: Why Scotland should keep its visitor information centres open

October 16, 2024

VisitScotland's plan to close its visitor information centres (‘iCentres’) is a catastrophic move, according to Alastair Naughton who pens his fourth “Good Tourism” Insight. Mysterious stone circles by pexels (CC0) via Pixabay. Flag of Scotland by jorono (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/stone-circles-mystery-cult-1853340/ https://pixabay.com/illustrations/international-banner-flag-scotland-2423877/

Vis­itScot­land’s plan to close its vis­it­or inform­a­tion centres (‘iCentres’) misses the mark, accord­ing to Alastair Naughton who pens his fourth “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] Vis­itScot­land’s pro­pos­al to close all its iCentres by 2026 is a mis­guided strategy that fails to recog­nise the diverse needs of tour­ists.  While it is true […]

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Would you abolish taxes on tips?

October 3, 2024

Abolishing taxes on tips is a promise made by both US presidential candidates. Based on where you are, and your experience of tourism and hospitality, what do you think of the policy? It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight Bites question. Pic by Sam Dan Truong (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/clear-glass-jar--rF4kuvgHhU

Abol­ish­ing taxes on tips is a prom­ise made by both US pres­id­en­tial can­did­ates. Based on where you are, and your exper­i­ence of tour­ism and hos­pit­al­ity, what do you think of the policy? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites ques­tion. Your cor­res­pond­ent put the ques­tion to the travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers in the “GT” net­work, invit­ing responses of no […]

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Preserving Nigeria’s cultural heritage through authenticity in tourism, education, technology

October 1, 2024

Calabar Carnival, ‘Africa’s Biggest Street Party, part of Nigeria's cultural heritage Akintomiwaao, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Today, ‘Octo­ber First’, is Nigeria’s Nation­al Inde­pend­ence Day. To mark the occa­sion, UK-based Nigeri­an aca­dem­ic Shola Osinaike makes a case for con­nect­ing Nigeria’s cul­tur­al her­it­age to its prom­ising future through authen­t­ic exper­i­ences in tour­ism, edu­ca­tion, and tech­no­logy. Thanks to “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner Tourism’s Hori­zon: Travel for the Mil­lions for invit­ing Dr Osinaike to write […]

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Good news in travel & tourism July-September 2024

September 28, 2024
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Share ‘Good news in travel & tourism July-September 2024’ as you would an afternoon tea in Bangkok … 'Thailand serves up journeys of ‘local co-creation’

This ‘Good news in travel & tour­ism’ wraps up three months of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences: July, August, and Septem­ber 2024. Share ‘Good news’ as you would an after­noon tea in Bangkok, Thai­l­and … It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch an item on the shar­ing menu to go straight to it. And don’t for­get to share.) […]

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SUNx expands climate-friendly ‘Education 4 Action’ with ‘Dodo 4 Kids’

September 27, 2024

SUNx expands climate-friendly ‘Education 4 Action’ with ‘Dodo 4 Kids’

On this World Tour­ism Day, SUNx Malta is delighted to announce the expan­sion of our Edu­ca­tion 4 Action pro­gram, pla­cing a spe­cial focus on the future lead­ers of tomor­row: our chil­dren, the ones who will have to deal with an inev­it­ably worsen­ing exist­en­tial cli­mate crisis. Cent­ral to this expan­sion is ‘Dodo 4 Kids’, which is designed […]

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Thailand serves up journeys of ‘local co-creation’

September 20, 2024

Thailand serves up community-based journeys of ‘local co-creation’

Cheffy takes on loc­al del­ic­acies were the focus of a com­munity-based tour­ism product launch in Thai­l­and: ‘The Jour­ney of Loc­al Co-Cre­a­tion’, Septem­ber 19, 2024, Siv­a­tel Bangkok. What is loc­al co-cre­ation? The Tour­ism Author­ity of Thai­l­and (TAT) and its ‘Loc­al Co-Cre­a­tion’ pro­ject part­ner, Loc­al Alike, presen­ted ‘co-cre­ated’ con­sum­ables from two com­munit­ies: Ban Sawa­tee in Khon Kaen […]

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