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A force for good: What can global travel & tourism learn from social enterprises?

March 26, 2025
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Can the loc­al com­munity-based busi­ness mod­els of tour­ism social enter­prises be rep­lic­ated at glob­al scale? Anishka Narula-Nielsen thinks so. It’s her first “Good Tour­ism” Insight. (You too can write a “GT” Insight.) The search for ‘good tour­ism’ Tour­ism is one of the most power­ful forces in the world. It drives eco­nom­ies, cre­ates jobs, and intro­duces us to […]

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Tourism and solidarity with Ghana & the developing world: Can they go hand in hand?

March 18, 2025

Whose future is it anyway? Tourism and solidarity with Ghana & the developing world: Can they go hand in hand? Photo by Ransford Quaye (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/woman-in-black-tank-top-and-blue-and-white-floral-skirt-standing-on-beach-during-daytime-b6KGlgCxH4o

Is tour­ism from the developed world com­pat­ible with the devel­op­ing world? Ceri Dingle believes so, and argues that if people could vis­it devel­op­ing places without pater­nal­ist­ic pity and pre­ju­dice they would help sup­port the sort of devel­op­ment and pro­gress loc­als want. Ms Dingle writes this “Good Tour­ism” Insight about her edu­ca­tion char­ity WORLD­write and its experiences […]

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Khiri Travel unveils new sensory and colonial heritage tours in Southeast Asia

February 27, 2025

New Sensory and Colonial Heritage Tours Unveiled in Southeast Asia by Khiri Travel

Khiri Travel has launched two major series of tour products ahead of ITB Ber­lin. The first is Asi­an city day tours that indulge all five senses. The second is a series of multi-day travel exper­i­ences where guests vis­it or stay in charm­ing colo­ni­al man­sions and hotels from the era of 19th cen­tury European explorers in Asia. […]

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Reclaim the riverside! EXO award winner creates family-friendly green spaces in Hanoi

and February 15, 2025

Reclaim the riverside! EXO award winner creates family-friendly green spaces in Hanoi

Think Play­grounds (TPG) is pro­tect­ing the unique biod­iversity of the Red River through the cre­ation of inclus­ive meet­ing places on the edge of deprived neigh­bour­hoods in Hanoi, Viet­nam.  TPG is an EXO Found­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Award win­ner. This post is based on a longer art­icle (PDF) writ­ten by former TPG intern Lucija Wićaz.  A grow­ing need […]

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Villagers, tour operators collaborate on new community-based Soum-son Trail in Laos

February 5, 2025

Villagers, tour operators collaborate on new community-based Soum-son Trail in Laos

The organ­isers of a new com­munity-based trekking route in remote north­ern Laos believe that the inclu­sion and train­ing of vil­la­gers in three moun­tain ham­lets is a pos­it­ive example of respons­ible travel. Their hope is that the com­munity-based tour­ism activ­ity will enhance the qual­ity of life for the vil­la­gers. Women pion­eers On Feb­ru­ary 16, six Australian […]

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Heartfelt thanks to Amazing Thailand, TAT, and guests, from the Anurak Lodge family

January 14, 2025

Anurak Community Lodge thanks Amazing Thailand for responsible tourism award

As repor­ted here, Anurak Com­munity Lodge in south­ern Thai­l­and won the Tour­ism Author­ity of Thai­l­and 2024 Respons­ible Tour­ism Award in the “Respons­ible Tour­ism Accom­mod­a­tion” cat­egory. We are at once proud and humbled. Deep­est grat­it­ude The entire Anurak Lodge fam­ily extend our deep­est grat­it­ude to the Tour­ism Author­ity of Thai­l­and (TAT) for the esteemed “Best Responsible […]

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