In 2024, what are the best opportunities for tourism over the next five years?

January 16, 2024

Travel & tourism's best opportunities over the next five years to 2029. Rainbow image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/vectors/rainbow-painted-fortune-cartoon-307622/

Over the next five years, what is the best oppor­tun­ity for travel & tour­ism where you work, or that you have iden­ti­fied through your research and study? And what are the key strategies that your organ­isa­tion, des­tin­a­tion, or the industry at large should employ to take advant­age of that oppor­tun­ity? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites ques­tion. Your correspondent […]

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What are tourism’s biggest challenges & threats over the next five years to 2028?

December 19, 2023
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What are tourism’s biggest challenges & threats over the next five years to 2028? Cobra image by P Schreiner (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/line-cobra-dangerous-reptile-1974382/

Over the next five years, what is the single biggest chal­lenge or threat facing tour­ism where you work, or that you have iden­ti­fied through your research and study?  And what are the key strategies that your organ­isa­tion, des­tin­a­tion, or the industry at large should employ to over­come it? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites ques­tion. Your cor­res­pond­ent put the […]

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Good news in travel & tourism October-November 2023

November 30, 2023

Share 'Good news in travel & tourism October-November 2023' as you would a plate of hummus. Image by Andrea (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/hummus-meal-chickpeas-pasta-seeds-1058000/

This ‘Good news in travel & tour­ism’ wraps up two months of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences. Share it as you would hum­mus … It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch an item on the shar­ing menu to go straight to it. And don’t for­get to share.) “Good Tour­ism” doesn’t judge. “GT” pub­lishes. Did you ever want […]

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“GT” Insight Bites: On empowerment, promotion, and the power of expression

October 26, 2023

Nyungura ‘Leonard’ Bapfakwita expresses himself in real time at the 2023 Red Rocks Cultural Festival in Rwanda. Picture by David Gillbanks.

Thanks to these two Rwandan tal­ents for con­trib­ut­ing to this instal­ment of “GT” Insight Bites: Leonard, who demon­strated his art in real time at the Red Rocks Cul­tur­al Fest­iv­al; Roger, who shared with me his love of birds as we walked through his beau­ti­ful vil­lage. You too can contribute.

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“GT” Insight Bites: On enrichment, repatriation, the double-edged blade, and war

October 11, 2023

"Thanks to tourism and the money I am able to save and send back to Congo DRC, I have started a nursery school on Idjwi Island in Lake Kivu." _ Rick Masumbuko

Write no more than 300 words on a travel & tour­ism top­ic that is import­ant to you. This is an open invit­a­tion to travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers to con­trib­ute a “GT” Insight Bite. Simply con­tact “GT”. Unlike oth­er “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites that have dead­lines and are based on spe­cif­ic ques­tions or hypo­thet­ic­als, this invit­a­tion is ongo­ing and […]

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Degrowth no response to climate change, say PATA, India as 196 buyers meet 159 sellers in New Delhi

October 5, 2023

Degrowth no response to climate change, say PATA, India as 196 buyers meet 159 sellers in New Delhi

Tourism’s degrowth is not an appro­pri­ate response to cli­mate change accord­ing to both V Vidyavathi, Sec­ret­ary of the Min­istry of Tour­ism, Gov­ern­ment of India, and Peter Semone, Chair of the Pacific Asia Travel Asso­ci­ation (PATA). In response to your correspondent’s ques­tion at the offi­cial media brief­ing ses­sion at PATA Travel Mart 2023, Ms Vidyavathi said […]

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