Is there a right to travel or be a tourist in a world of limits?

, and June 4, 2026

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Is travel & tour­ism a human right or elite priv­ilege? As res­id­ents protest against over­tour­ism and des­tin­a­tions intro­duce vis­it­or caps, is it time to rethink our free­dom of movement?

Ralf Vogler, Nadja Sch­weiggart, and Adri­an Müller out­line how we might dis­tin­guish between neces­sary travel and dis­cre­tion­ary tour­ism con­sump­tion and pro­pose a ‘stair­case mod­el’ of ascend­ing justifications.

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What is good tourism? “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel March-May ’26

May 29, 2026

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Wel­come to the March-May 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!

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Do green, low-carbon travel & tourism supply chains unintentionally exclude women?

May 26, 2026

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Do green, low-car­bon travel & tour­ism sup­ply chains unin­ten­tion­ally exclude women?

“[C]lean energy trans­itions are nev­er purely tech­nic­al. They redis­trib­ute costs and oppor­tun­it­ies, which can unin­ten­tion­ally widen exist­ing gender inequities.” 

This is what Kev­in Phun of the Centre for Respons­ible Tour­ism Singa­pore asks and argues in a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bite that leads a com­pil­a­tion of responses.

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Governance bottlenecks are slowing Kenya’s sustainability progress: How to break them

May 18, 2026

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The ‘say-do gap’ in sus­tain­able travel & tour­ism is not only an issue in con­sumer decision-mak­ing and cap­it­al alloc­a­tion. It is also an insti­tu­tion­al, bur­eau­crat­ic, and polit­ic­al problem.

As Doreen Nyam­weya has dis­covered through her exper­i­ence in loc­al gov­ern­ment in Kenya, pro­gress towards sus­tain­ab­il­ity is pos­sible, but nev­er swift nor perfect.

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Can tourism in ‘the Global South’ ever be truly sustainable? UCB students have a say

May 12, 2026

Can tourism in ‘the Global South’ ever be truly sustainable? UCB students have their say

“Can tour­ism in devel­op­ing coun­tries ever be truly ‘sus­tain­able’ when it deep­ens inequality? 

Using one des­tin­a­tion in the Glob­al South, argue wheth­er tour­ism there genu­inely advances SDGs 8, 10 and 12

Uni­ver­sity Col­lege Birm­ing­ham Seni­or Lec­turer Simon Faulkner posed that as a chal­lenge to his stu­dents. Three rose to it.

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Cardamom Tented Camp reports strong conservation gains

May 7, 2026

Cardamom Tented Camp, which protects 18000 ha of Cambodian forest, has release its 2025 impact report

A nature-based tour­ism mod­el in Cam­bod­ia pro­tects over 18,000 hec­tares while advan­cing com­munity engage­ment and sus­tain­able operations. 

Car­damom Ten­ted Camp has released its ‘2025 Impact Report’, high­light­ing pro­gress in rain­forest pro­tec­tion, wild­life mon­it­or­ing, and com­munity engage­ment through its travel & tour­ism-led con­ser­va­tion model.

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