“Good Tourism” Destinations & Places in Europe

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Scottish tourism plans transformational path to post-COVID recovery

November 3, 2020

The Loup of Fintry. Image supplied by VisitScotland.

Vis­itScot­land chief Mal­colm Roughead shares how his organ­isa­tion has worked with host com­munit­ies and oth­er tour­ism stake­hold­ers to plot a respons­ible and sus­tain­able route out of the COVID crisis. Enjoy this “Good Tour­ism” Insight.  Scot­tish tour­ism, like the sec­tor world­wide, is in a pre­cari­ous state. The coronavir­us pan­dem­ic and its ongo­ing effects are chal­len­ging the […]

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How “Feel Good” positions, promotes Germany as a sustainable tourism destination

March 31, 2020

Couple at an accessible viewpoint overlooking Saarschleife (Saar Loop) in the German region of "Saarland", which is certifiably sustainable. Image by Jens Wegener; supplied by GNTB.

As Innov­a­tions Man­ager for the Ger­man Nation­al Tour­ist Board, Olaf Schlieper is the chief scout for issues and trends in travel & tour­ism. One area he is par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in is sus­tain­ab­il­ity. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Mr Schlieper gives us an idea as to why and how Ger­many is pos­i­tion­ing itself as a sustainable […]

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Overtourism overturned: How Calviá, Majorca turned its tourism fortunes around

February 8, 2019
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Overtourism no more? The beach at Magalluf, a major holiday resort in the municipality of Calviá Wikimedia. By Rafael Ortega Díaz (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia. Cropped and enhanced by "GT". https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1899528

Richard Shep­ard reck­ons “over­tour­ism” is an old prob­lem and that there are plenty of proven solu­tions. As he dis­cusses in this “GT” Insight, all that’s required is the “polit­ic­al and social will” to imple­ment them.  “Tour­ists go home” That’s not a rarely heard sen­ti­ment lately. You might think that over­tour­ism, based on the head­lines this past year, […]

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Why We Hate Tourism Tours & why you should too

September 28, 2017

Why "We Hate Tourism Tours" and why you should too

With its pro­voc­at­ive name and mav­er­ick spir­it, We Hate Tour­ism Tours (WHTT) has attrac­ted plenty of con­sumer press and travel blog atten­tion since it star­ted facil­it­at­ing authen­t­ic exper­i­ences in Lis­bon, Por­tugal eight years ago. In this “GT” Insight, WHT­T’s “philo­soph­er-in-chief” Ricardo Oli­veira con­siders WHT­T’s unortho­dox approach in the con­text of tour­is­m’s “new real­ity”. We Hate Tourism […]

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