Heartfelt thanks to Amazing Thailand, TAT, and guests, from the Anurak Lodge family

January 14, 2025

Anurak Community Lodge thanks Amazing Thailand for responsible tourism award

As repor­ted here, Anurak Com­munity Lodge in south­ern Thai­l­and won the Tour­ism Author­ity of Thai­l­and 2024 Respons­ible Tour­ism Award in the “Respons­ible Tour­ism Accom­mod­a­tion” cat­egory. We are at once proud and humbled. Deep­est grat­it­ude The entire Anurak Lodge fam­ily extend our deep­est grat­it­ude to the Tour­ism Author­ity of Thai­l­and (TAT) for the esteemed “Best Responsible […]

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What is tourism’s biggest opportunity and/or threat where you are in 2025?

January 13, 2025

What is tourism's biggest opportunity and tourism's biggest threat where you are in 2025?

What is tour­is­m’s biggest oppor­tun­ity and/or threat where you are in 2025? 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 more than 300 words. (You too can join the “GT” net­work. Register.) Thanks to the nine good people — pro­fess­ors, pro­fes­sion­als, and prac­ti­tion­ers — who took the time […]

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“GT” Insight Bites: Nostalgia

January 7, 2025

Nostalgia and tourism. Filmstrip negatives. Image by Pexels (CC0) va Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/filmstrip-negatives-photography-1850277/

‘Nos­tal­gia. It ain’t what it used to be!’  Our travel tastes are often shaped by the memor­ies of child­hood hol­i­day exper­i­ences, or of stor­ies passed down through the gen­er­a­tions. Mar­keters often play to this. What is the role of nos­tal­gia in hol­i­day­mak­ing, from an indi­vidu­al or com­mer­cial per­spect­ive? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites ques­tion. Your cor­res­pond­ent put […]

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Wasn’t me! Defining tourism sub-sector responsibilities for EU ESG reporting

December 20, 2024

Tourism ESG reporting. Prison bars image by Craig Clark (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/vectors/icon-human-rights-2071965/ Jungle path image by Sasin Tipchai (CC0) from Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/jungle-pathway-steps-way-sunlight-1807476/

How can the European Uni­on’s (EU) travel and hos­pit­al­ity sec­tors estab­lish clear respons­ib­il­ity bound­ar­ies while ensur­ing envir­on­ment­al, social, and gov­ernance (ESG) account­ab­il­ity across the entire tour­ism value chain? Robin Boustead shares his first “Good Tour­ism” Insight.  Loom­ing dead­lines, fines, (pris­on?) We are rap­idly approach­ing the end of the first year of data gath­er­ing for companies […]

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SUNx, Murmuration partnership to support creation of tourism climate action plans

December 17, 2024

SUNx, Murmuration partnership to support tourism climate action plans. Satellite image Wikiimages (CC0) via Pixabay, https://pixabay.com/photos/map-land-egypt-geography-11043/

SUNx (Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work) and Mur­mur­a­tion have com­bined forces to sup­port tour­ism des­tin­a­tions and busi­nesses in rap­idly cre­at­ing cli­mate action plans. This is an imme­di­ate response to the Baku Tour­ism Declar­a­tion. Murmuration’s power­ful cli­mate risk mod­el­ling tech­no­logy and SUNx Cli­mate Friendly Travel Ser­vices’ AI solu­tions will deliv­er high qual­ity, data led, cli­mate action plans at […]

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Top five most visited “GT” posts of 2024 (& top 10 all-time “GT” & “GT” Travel posts)

December 12, 2024

Top five most visited "Good Tourism" Blog posts of 2024. Image by yohoprashant (CC0) via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/colorful-five-fingers-kid-fingers-4043742/

The last time I put togeth­er lists such as these was in Decem­ber 2021 when many were des­per­ately hop­ing for a bet­ter new year after a tough two.  We saw a bounce in 2022. Now, in Decem­ber 2024, as much of the tour­ism world has fully recovered, many are wor­ried about over­tour­ism again!  In this moment, let’s […]

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