“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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Good news in travel & tourism August-September 2023

September 30, 2023

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

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“GT” Insight Bites: On tourism technology, progress, and local benefit-sharing

August 22, 2023

“GT” Insight Bites: On tourism technology, progress, and local benefit-sharing. Maasai warriors image by David Mark from Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/maasai-tribe-kenya-sky-clouds-men-83563/

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 hypo­thet­ic­al scen­ari­os, this invitation […]

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Hey, travel & tourism, are you ‘neocolonialist’?

August 2, 2023
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Tourism and neocolonialism. A surrealist representation of tourism as a neocolonialist enterprise by DALL-E-2

Do your travel & tour­ism oper­a­tions or aca­dem­ic pur­suits con­trib­ute to a “con­tinu­ation or reim­pos­i­tion of imper­i­al­ist rule”? Are they part of your nation’s efforts to influ­ence a less developed land and exploit its resources? As a travel & tour­ism stake­hold­er, are you, as some would say, a neo­co­lo­ni­al­ist?  Dis­cuss. Your cor­res­pond­ent put these questions […]

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Good news in travel & tourism June-July 2023

July 27, 2023

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

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