Is a travel & tourism career still attractive? Important things to understand in 2025

May 3, 2025

Is a travel & tourism career still attractive? Important things to understand in 2025. Map image with symbols by Harish Sharma (CC0) from Pixabay

Is a travel & tour­ism career still attract­ive in 2025? What is the most import­ant thing that a young per­son should under­stand before embark­ing upon a career in tour­ism? That is your “GT” Insight Bites chal­lenge. Write up to 300 words about the ques­tion in the com­ments at any time. [The dead­line for free copy editing, […]

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How should travel & tourism respond to threats to free movement, thought?

May 8, 2025

How should travel & tourism respond to threats to free movement and free thought? Image is of a protest outside Trump building in Chicago in 2018. By Rob Walsh (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/people-gathers-in-the-street-near-trump-building-_KeC-qyKLPY

If the United States under Don­ald Trump threatens free­dom of move­ment and free­dom of thought — and the busi­nesses and live­li­hoods that facil­it­ate both — what should travel, tour­ism, and hos­pit­al­ity stake­hold­ers do? K Michael Hay­wood reck­ons industry and the academy should put aside long-stand­ing dif­fer­ences. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can share.] Demo­cra­cies in decline … Democracies […]

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What is good tourism? “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel wrap March-April 2025

April 30, 2025

What is good tourism? Perhaps it is sharing a home-hosted meal in Sandy Bay, St Helena. Photo by Mathias Falcone. Supplied by St Helena Tourism. "GT" cropped the image and added "Share ..."

Wel­come to the March-April 2025 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? Per­haps it is shar­ing a home-hos­ted meal with St Hel­eni­ans in Sandy Bay, St Helena … ‘a breath of fresh air’. “Good […]

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St Helena got an airport: Where to now for one of Earth’s remotest places?

April 29, 2025

Commercial flights from St Helena Airport, the island's first and only airport, commenced late 2017. Photo by Craig Williams,

It’s not news, but it will be news to many. The remote island of St Helena and its tiny pop­u­la­tion got a USD 380 mil­lion air­port. That was shortly before the glob­al COVID shut­downs.  While St Helena Air­port (HLE) has yet to deliv­er on its tour­ism and eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment poten­tial, Mar­cella Mit­tens and many other […]

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Considering sustainable tourism certification? What to do first and what to look for

April 23, 2025

Considering sustainable tourism certification? What to do first and what to look for. Made with an image by Christophe from Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/validation-positive-logo-1614001/

Some­times the first step is the hard­est. This applies as much to the daunt­ing task of obtain­ing sus­tain­able tour­ism cer­ti­fic­a­tion as any­thing else; espe­cially for micro and small busi­nesses that can­not afford to throw resources at a new depart­ment or employ­ee to man­age it.  Kev­in Phun offers his advice in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too […]

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AI and authenticity in tourism, hospitality: Why human stories still matter

April 1, 2025

AI and authenticity in tourism, travel, hospitality: Why human stories still matter. A Gemini-generated image.

With arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) and auto­ma­tion on the rise across many sec­tors of the glob­al eco­nomy, how can travel, tour­ism, and hos­pit­al­ity brands bene­fit while stay­ing true to them­selves and the exper­i­ences they offer?  It’s Anishka Narula-Nielsen’s second “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can share.] Dawn of the AI age Like it or not, we’re liv­ing at […]

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