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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“GT” Insight Bites: Geopolitics and tourism

December 10, 2024

Geopolitics and tourism. Image by StarFlames (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/chess-camera-world-map-2258804/ "GT" cropped it and added the words "Geopolitics & tourism".

Like it or not, geo­pol­it­ics affects travel pat­terns. How can the tour­ism industry where you are bet­ter bal­ance the polit­ic­al sens­it­iv­it­ies of loc­al and inter­na­tion­al stake­hold­ers? 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 […]

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For real: Barcelona’s housing crisis caused by anti-hospitality policy, not tourism

November 17, 2024
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What caused Barcelona's housing crisis? Tourism? Or anti-tourism policy? El Pórtico de la Lavandera, Park Güell, Barcelona, Spain. Image by LoggaWiggler (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/park-g%C3%BCell-gaud%C3%AD-5238/

Prop­erty man­age­ment pro­fes­sion­al Saverio Francesco Ber­to­lu­cci shares his views on Bar­celon­a’s hous­ing crisis and the anti-tour­ism polit­ics at play in his adop­ted home city.  Pub­lished in col­lab­or­a­tion with Tourism’s Hori­zon: Travel for the Mil­lions, a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner, it’s Mr Ber­to­lu­c­ci’s sev­enth “GT” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] On the anti-tour­ism radar The most […]

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Cardamom Tented Camp in Cambodia adds three premium river view tents

November 8, 2024

New river view tent at Cardamom Tented Camp in Cambodia

Car­damom Ten­ted Camp’s new accom­mod­a­tions offer serene river views and an intim­ate wild­life exper­i­ence in Cambodia’s largest nation­al park, where “your stay keeps the forest stand­ing”. ‘Unpar­alleled con­nec­tion to nature’ Car­damom Ten­ted Camp, set with­in the pristine wil­der­ness of Cambodia’s Botum Sakor Nation­al Park, has enhanced its eco-con­­s­cious accom­mod­a­tion offer­ing with the addi­tion of three […]

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