“Good Tourism” Destinations & Places in Oceania

“GT” des­tin­a­tions in Ocean­ia — Aus­tralia, New Zea­l­and, Pap­ua New Guinea, and oth­er Pacific nations — their spe­cial places, and the travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers there who are keen to show­case their good, their bet­ter, and their best.

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Should it all be ecotourism? Reimagining travel & tourism in 2021

January 7, 2021
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Image from Edgewalkers' Boranup Walking Retreat in Margaret River, Western Australia. Source: https://edgewalkers.com.au/walking-creativity-retreat

While road-trip­ping across West­ern Aus­tralia in 2020, Erika Jac­ob­son of boutique eco-tour out­fit Edge­walk­ers “reima­gined” what travel & tour­ism might be like in 2021 if all stake­hold­ers were of like mind. Dr Jac­ob­son encour­ages us to reima­gine with her in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. Cer­tain that we would not be tak­ing our guests over­seas in […]

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A little luxury: What travellers want post-COVID & how to prepare your tour business

January 5, 2021

Abstract art by 8926 via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/illustrations/texture-abstract-structure-color-1909992/ used on the "Good Tourism" Insight post "A little luxury: What travellers want post-COVID & how to prepare your tour business"

When travel & tour­ism inev­it­ably opens up again in your part of the world (if it has­n’t already) for domest­ic and/or inter­na­tion­al trav­el­lers, are you pre­pared to give them what they want? Aus­trali­an tour oper­at­or entre­pren­eur Grant Char­les­worth shares his “Good Tour­ism” Insight into how he’s pre­par­ing his Aus­trali­an Lux­ury Escapes. A lot has changed […]

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How to change an iconic travel & tourism experience … for good

June 24, 2020

From the roadside. Mount Sefton, Mt Cook National Park, New Zealand. Image by Bernard Spragg (CC0) via Picryl. https://picryl.com/media/mount-sefton-mt-cook-np-nz-68cc04

Mak­ing things bet­ter rarely neces­sit­ates tear­ing everything down and start­ing again. Josie Major of GOOD Travel (no rela­tion) describes how research and a little ima­gin­a­tion can turn a quint­es­sen­tial New Zea­l­and travel exper­i­ence — the road trip — into some­thing poten­tially much bet­ter for every­one. Thanks to “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner Second Look World­wide for invit­ing Josie to con­trib­ute this “GT” […]

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And now for the weather: info-seeking & climate change adaptation in Pacific tourism

August 7, 2017
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Climate change adaptation is increasingly important, especially in the Pacific

Cli­mate change adapt­a­tion is increas­ingly talked about in the travel & tour­ism trade media as vital to the sus­tain­ab­il­ity of the sec­tor, espe­cially in regions sus­cept­ible to extreme weath­er events and the worst-case scen­ari­os of sea level rise, such as Pacific Island nations. In this “GT” Insight, Dr Johanna Nalau, Research Fel­low at the Griffith […]

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South Pacific Tourism looks to its ocean & the ‘circular economy’

June 15, 2017

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In the wake of the first United Nations Oceans Con­fer­ence last week, the South Pacific Tour­ism Organ­isa­tion (SPTO) has called on the Pacific’s tour­ism industry to pro­tect and sus­tain­ably man­age the oceans for tour­ism devel­op­ment. Tour­ism is a tar­get under Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goal (SDG) 14.7: “By 2030, increase the eco­nom­ic bene­fits to Small Island developing […]

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