How are emerging technologies transforming the travel & tourism industry?

August 8, 2024

How are emerging technologies transforming the travel & tourism industry? Image generated by AI

How are emer­ging tech­no­lo­gies trans­form­ing the travel & tour­ism industry? 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 the “GT” net­work. Register.) Thanks to the four respond­ents — pro­fess­ors, pro­fes­sion­als, prac­ti­tion­ers — who took the time to share their […]

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The trials, successes, and best practices of work integrated learning in tourism

August 7, 2024

CABI Tourism Cases: work integrated learning in tourism

A spe­cial issue of CABI Tour­ism Cases explores the tri­als, suc­cesses, and best prac­tice examples of work integ­rated learn­ing in tour­ism, hos­pit­al­ity, events, and recre­ation degree pro­grams. The six case stud­ies are free to access until Septem­ber 30, 2024. Work integ­rated learn­ing in tour­ism: The con­text Aca­dem­ic insti­tu­tions around the world con­tin­ue to emphas­ise the importance […]

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The happiness factor: Social tourism is sustainable tourism

August 6, 2024

Social tourism, social good? Image by Guille Pozzi (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/silhouette-photo-of-woman-and-girl-on-shoreline-y1wVavuxZtE

Can ‘social tour­ism’ — char­ity- and/or tax­pay­er-sup­­por­ted hol­i­days — help alle­vi­ate stress in soci­ety and turn the travel & tour­ism industry’s off-sea­son frowns upside down?  Scott McCabe thinks so.  Pro­fess­or McCabe penned this “Good Tour­ism” Insight at the invit­a­tion of Tourism’s Hori­zon: Travel for the Mil­lions, a “GT” Insight Part­ner. Fam­ily hol­i­days: A fine time … Term-time hol­i­day fines were back in […]

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50 diploma scholarships open to students from SIDS, LDCs

July 31, 2024

2024 Climate Friendly Travel Diploma 50 scholarships for students in SIDS, LDCs and other developing states

Fifty schol­ar­ships are open to stu­dents from Least Developed Coun­tries (LDCs) and Small Island Devel­op­ing States (SIDS), and a few oth­er devel­op­ing coun­tries, for the online Dip­loma in Cli­mate Friendly Travel offered by the Insti­tute of Tour­ism Stud­ies and SUNx Malta. The 2024 CFT Dip­loma starts on Septem­ber 30. Schol­ar­ship applic­a­tions close August 15.  APPLY HERE […]

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Can we manage mass tourism for sustainable, equitable, and progressive outcomes?

July 30, 2024
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Can we manage mass tourism for sustainable, equitable, progressive outcomes? Image generated by Copilot.

If one assumes that mass tour­ism is unavoid­able without an author­it­ari­an crack­down on mobil­ity, what should be done about it? Kev­in Phun sug­gests that in every chal­lenge lies an oppor­tun­ity, and pro­poses how we might man­age mass tour­ism for sus­tain­able, equit­able, and pro­gress­ive out­comes. In less than two hours’ time (as I write this), I will […]

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Should I buy a DSLR camera? Key factors to consider

July 24, 2024

Should I buy a DSLR camera? Photo by Martin Jernberg (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/two-man-on-top-or-rocky-mountain-4RmMPd0QJHk

Should I buy a DSLR cam­era? Or are there bet­ter ways to ful­fill my pho­to­graph­ic needs?  Faced with a con­fus­ing array of cam­era sizes, formats, and tech­no­lo­gies, trav­el­lers, social media influ­en­cers, and the in-house con­tent cre­at­ors of travel & tour­ism organ­isa­tions might well ask those ques­tions.  Lon­don Cam­era Exchange breaks it down for us.  Recently, the question […]

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