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In Gaborone, Botswana, the food scene is transforming, blending indigenous ingredients with modern gastronomy.
As Gaborone reimagines traditional Setswana flavours for the tourist palate, Delly Chatibura and Brighton Hurombo ask: Can culinary innovation co-exist with the communal spirit of the past?
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Even as Thimlich Ohinga’s dry stone walls crumble, the local community continues to be excluded from the management of the Kenyan UNESCO World Heritage site.
This according to tourism officer Doreen Nyamweya’s who shares her second “Good Tourism” Insight:
Last month, July 2025, I spent time in Migori County, Kenya, on a field visit for my MSc thesis on responsible tourism awareness levels among host communities in heritage destinations …
Read More Thimlich Ohinga: UNESCO World Heritage site management is failing a local community
Detty December is peak season for tourism in Nigeria thanks to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of expatriate Nigerians and tourists with Nigerian heritage. Diaspora tourism is a boon to Nigeria’s economy and a lifeline to many of its tertiary industries, including tourism. But can it be sustained, extended?
Thanks to “Good Tourism” Insight Partner Tourism’s Horizon: Travel for the Millions for inviting Dr Shola Osinaike to write this “Good Tourism” Insight. (You too can write one.)
Read More Detty December: The rise of diaspora tourism in Nigeria
It’s not news, but it will be news to many. The remote island of St Helena and its tiny population got a USD 380 million airport. That was shortly before the global COVID shutdowns. While St Helena Airport (HLE) has yet to deliver on its tourism and economic development potential, Marcella Mittens and many other […]
Read More St Helena got an airport: Where to now for one of Earth’s remotest places?
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 […]
Read More Tourism and solidarity with Ghana & the developing world: Can they go hand in hand?
Today, ‘October First’, is Nigeria’s National Independence Day. To mark the occasion, UK-based Nigerian academic Shola Osinaike makes a case for connecting Nigeria’s cultural heritage to its promising future through authentic experiences in tourism, education, and technology. Thanks to “Good Tourism” Insight Partner Tourism’s Horizon: Travel for the Millions for inviting Dr Osinaike to write […]
Read More Preserving Nigeria’s cultural heritage through authenticity in tourism, education, technology