Infrastructure in focus for new “Good Tourism” Insight Partnership
Second Look Worldwide is the latest “Good Tourism” Insight Partner.
As a “GT” Insight Partner, Second Look Worldwide will inspire deeper, broader, and more impactful industry-wide conversations around community infrastructure development in emerging and established destinations.
To that end, the not-for-profit will regularly identify and invite an opinion or practice leader working in host community infrastructure to write a “GT” Insight for publication by The “Good Tourism” Blog.
“GT” Insights are original posts by academics, experts, and practitioners keen to share their insights, expertise, and experiences for the benefit of all travel & tourism industry stakeholders.
Second Look Worldwide’s first “GT” Insight is by its President, Tanner C Knorr, who sets the tone by taking us to Kakoi Village in Tanzania.
Kakoi lies at the edge of Tarangire National Park where encounters between humans and wildlife are common. This makes life difficult for the Maasai of Kakoi, who are herders and farmers. Yet the wildlife are essential to both the conservation values of Tarangire and the tourism industry that thrives off the back of it.
Kakoi is the first beneficiary of Second Look Worldwide’s pragmatic approach to supporting communities that are directly affected by or live adjacent to important tourism activity.
Tanner said: “It’s a pleasure to be one of the first “GT” Insight Partners and to share our vision of sustainable tourism development. We’re thrilled to be part of the movement to shape tourism into a force for good.”
Your correspondent is grateful to Tanner and the Second Look Worldwide Board for their early support of the “GT” Insight Partnership program. To position “GT” as a hub for deep insights on what “good tourism” means to various stakeholders, I know I need to more regularly publish authoritative, original content on important topics such as the infrastructure needs of host communities. So I’m grateful for Second Look Worldwide’s help.
Second Look Worldwide joins the World Tourism Association for Culture & Heritage (WTACH) as a “GT” Insight Partner.
More “GT” Insight Partnerships are in the pipeline.
“GT” Insight Partners have the powerful opportunity to lead discussions and set agenda in their respective topic areas, but they by no means get to monopolise them. It is only through challenging each others’ ideas that we can come up with better ones. It is a “GT” policy that anyone may constructively comment on a post, submit an idea for their own “GT” Insight” or sponsored post, and join the growing list of “GT” Friends.
The “GT” platform is open to all and open for business.
Featured image: Testing the new water pump at Kakoi, Tanzania. Image supplied by Tanner C Knorr.
