Anurak Community Lodge, a 19-key nature-based ecolodge located on the edge of Khao Sok National Park in southern Thailand is guided by the ‘4Cs’ of conservation, community, culture, and commerce; a framework developed by The Long Run.
Read More A sustainable stay: Thailand’s Anurak Lodge embraces ‘4Cs’ in regenerative quest
Who has the ‘social licence’ to claim a place has changed for the worse? Does it matter if that change is driven by tourist visas, employment visas, or migration?
Is ‘nostalgia’ a valid stakeholder in a destination’s future? And does travel & tourism have a responsibility to validate these feelings, or is change the price of ‘progress’?
Thanks to the six respondents for their considered thoughts. Their responses are listed in the order I received them. For BiteX: war.
Read More Changing places: Responsibility, nostalgia, and the right to complain | BiteX: War
Welcome to the January-February 2026 wrap of “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and experiences shared by friends and Partners of The “Good Tourism” Blog. [You too can share.]
What is good tourism?
The travel industry is complex, so it is a good idea to open one’s mind to perspectives one may never otherwise encounter.
This is the “Good Tourism” mission. It’s “GT”. And go!
Read More What is good tourism? “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel January-February 2026
Is a career in travel & tourism a ticket to the world or a trap? What is your honest advice to a young person entering the industry?
That’s a “Good Tourism” Insight Bites question.
Thanks to the four respondents writing in from Canada and Southeast Asia for their considered thoughts. And thanks to David Beirman from Australia for his “GT” Insight BiteX on academia’s relationship with sustainability.
Read More “GT” Insight Bites: Is a tourism career a ticket or a trap?
The phenomenon of ‘last chance tourism’ — rushing to see a site before it disappears — has long been an uncomfortable marketing hook. This week, research has quantified the irony, highlighting how melting glaciers are drawing record visitor numbers.
As climate change alters the physical product of tourism, will the industry pivot to preservation, or sell tickets to the end of the world?
Read More News and questions (without answers) from the week ending February 15, 2026
In what way is artificial intelligence (AI) changing the way you work, hire, learn, or teach?
With perspectives from senior people in travel & tourism’s business, academic, activist, airline, and NGO worlds — and even from Iran — there is more depth in this compilation of “GT” Insight Bites than you might initially presume; despite AI being “the hottest (and maybe the most boring) subject of the moment”, as one respondent described it.
Read More “GT” Insight Bites: What’s AI doing for you?
