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Tourism in crisis: A Myanmar elephant camp & community pivot to plan B

and October 2, 2020

An elephant of Green Hill Valley Elephant Camp, Shan state, Myanmar. (Image by Hollis Burbank-Hammarlund). Inset: GHV's Founders Tin Win Maw (Left) and Htun Htun Wynn (Image courtesy of GHV).

Through the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and tour­ism crisis, hopes rest on con­tin­gency “plan B” to sus­tain the retired log­ging ele­phants of Green Hill Val­ley, Myan­mar and the com­munity of people who love them.  Hol­lis Bur­b­ank-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al knows them well, hav­ing led ele­phant health­care and wel­fare work­shops at the camp in 2018 and […]

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Anurak Lodge in Thailand wins PATA Grand Award for sustainability

September 28, 2020

Anurak Community Lodge staff

Anurak Com­munity Lodge’s green cre­den­tials secure the ‘best of the best’ award for oper­at­or YAANA Ven­tures. YAANA Ven­tures, the oper­at­or of Anurak Com­munity Lodge at Khao Sok Nation­al Park in south­ern Thai­l­and, has been awar­ded the 2020 Pacific Asia Travel Asso­ci­ation (PATA) Grand Award in the Sus­tain­ab­il­ity cat­egory. The win­ners were announced dur­ing the online PATA Gold […]

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SUNx Malta launches “Climate Friendly Travel Registry”

September 25, 2020

SUNx Malta Launches Climate Friendly Travel Registry Supporting 2050 Climate Neutral & Sustainability Ambitions of Travel & Tourism

Press release from “Good Tour­ism” Part­ner SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work: Today dur­ing Cli­mate Week NYC and in the side-lines of UN Gen­er­al Assembly, SUNx Malta launched a Cli­mate Friendly Travel Registry for 2050 Cli­mate Neut­ral & Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Ambi­tions in part­ner­ship with the World Travel & Tour­ism Coun­cil (WTTC), and Thompson Okanagan Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation (TOTA). The idea […]

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Associations to cooperate in cultural heritage preservation, tourism training

July 7, 2020

Chris Flynn of WTACH; Philippe Francois of AMFORHT

Press release from “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner the World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture & Her­it­age (WTACH): Two glob­al tour­ism asso­ci­ations are join­ing forces to dove­tail key object­ives in their fields of cul­tur­al her­it­age pro­tec­tion and voca­tion­al train­ing. A new part­ner­ship agree­ment between the World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture & Her­it­age (WTACH) and the World Association […]

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Keeping elephants healthy under the cloud of COVID-19

and June 27, 2020

Dr Wachiraporn Toonrongchang and team at at a private camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Image supplied by Dr Nissa Mututanont of the GTAEF Foundation.

News from the field — from the Ele­phant Health­care Emer­gency Life­line Fund in Chi­ang Mai, Thai­l­and — by Hol­lis Bur­b­ank-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al. What’s the say­ing? An ounce of pre­ven­tion is worth a pound of cure? For Thailand’s tour­ism ele­phants con­fined to lock-down mode — along with the facil­it­ies and people who care for them — the need for routine and […]

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Online courses by The Centre for Responsible Tourism Singapore: ‘Reinventing tourism learning’

June 4, 2020
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Centre for Responsible Tourism Singapore logo and two images

“GT” Friend Kev­in Phun of new “GT” Part­ner The Centre for Respons­ible Tour­ism Singa­pore (CRTS) has developed a series of short online courses for aspir­ing respons­ible tour­ism prac­ti­tion­ers — or any­one inter­ested in the sub­ject — to estab­lish a found­a­tion of know­ledge and a frame­work for think­ing about vari­ous aspects of respons­ible tour­ism.  “GT” 20% dis­count coupon: GTB-20-OFF Courses […]

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