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Conservation, climate, culture challenge food tourism in Botswana

June 25, 2024

Botswana's Okavango Delta is important to the country's food security as well as its food tourism potential. Aerial shot of the Okavango River, Shakawe, Botswana by Wynand Uys (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/aerial-photography-of-body-of-water-4ZCA3xukIso

Delly Cha­ti­bura sees a huge oppor­tun­ity for Bot­swana to lever­age its nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al resources for food secur­ity and good food tour­ism. But con­ser­va­tion, cli­mate, and cul­tur­al chal­lenges impede food tour­ism in Bot­swana. Food cul­tures are often integ­ral to tour­ism, with Bangkok’s street food, New York’s diners, tea in China, and French baguettes being four arbit­rary examples. But how many of the world’s tour­ists are famil­i­ar with Botswana’s rich food cul­ture, and the issues attend­ing it? 

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Inclusions: How a little place near Angkor became one of the world’s best hotels


Jaya House River Park: How a little place near Angkor became one of the world’s best hotels

There’s a lot of good going on behind the leafy green exter­i­or of one of the world’s best hotels. And much of it is “rather easy”. Talk is cheap. Chris­ti­an de Boer is tired of the hypo­crisy that runs rampant in the travel & tour­ism industry, such as “the B Corps that can’t wait to give […]

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Community-based tourism for urban & rural development in sub-Saharan Africa


CABI Tourism Cases on community-based tourism development in sub-Saharan Africa

CABI Tour­ism Cases presents suc­cesses, poten­tials, and chal­lenges of com­munity-based tour­ism and hos­pit­al­ity for urb­an and rur­al devel­op­ment in sub-Saha­ran Africa. The tour­ism industry has become one of the key socio-eco­nom­ic sec­tors of sub-Saha­ran Africa. In the last few dec­ades, the tour­ism industry in most sub-Saha­ran Afric­an coun­tries has sur­passed most oth­er eco­nom­ic sec­tors in terms of gen­er­at­ing busi­ness oppor­tun­it­ies, for­eign exchange earn­ings, and employ­ment prospects. 

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SUNx, CFT Uganda Chapter urge tourism climate action and adaptation in Kampala


SUNx, CFT Uganda Chapter urge tourism climate action and adaptation in Kampala Crested crane image by Paul (CC0) via Pixabay. Uganda map-shaped flag by Gordan Johnson (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-crested-crane-crane-uganda-7718653/ https://pixabay.com/vectors/uganda-flag-map-geography-outline-1758988/

SUNx Malta and its Uganda Chapter are high­light­ing the imper­at­ive for cli­mate action in tour­ism, par­tic­u­larly the need to adapt to intensi­fy­ing weath­er extremes, at the Pearl of Africa Tour­ism Expo (POATE) 2024 tak­ing place in Kam­pala, Uganda. Find SUNx at POATE, Maleng Travel Stand T9 Mun­yonyo Con­ven­tion Centre. 100 cli­mate-friendly Ugandan tour­ism stake­hold­ers Uganda has […]

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Venice ‘bookable’: Italians lose freedom of movement

May 8, 2024
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Are Venice’s new day-tripper rules and regulations having the desired effect? Or are they unreasonably restricting Italians' freedom of movement? Venice carnival masks image by Leo (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/venice-mask-venice-venice-carnival-4764619/ "GT" added "Halt!"

Are Venice’s new day-trip­per rules hav­ing the desired effect? Or are they unreas­on­ably restrict­ing Itali­ans’ free­dom of move­ment? This is Domin­ic Standish’s second “Good Tour­ism” Insight at the invit­a­tion of Tourism’s Hori­zon, a “GT” Insight Part­ner. [You too can write a “GT” Insight. Your organ­isa­tion can also become a “GT” Part­ner.] Book­ings and fees Since April 25, […]

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Emil Kukalj on balanced tourism, overtourism, ideology, pragmatism, and possibility


Emil Kukalj on balanced tourism, overtourism, pragmatism, and possibility

Emil Kukalj reck­ons ideo­logy is only use­ful if it is action­able and leads to net pos­it­ive res­ults. Saverio F Ber­to­lu­cci inter­viewed Mr Kukalj for a Tourism’s Hori­zon Inter­view. For this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Mr Ber­to­lu­cci reflects. [The full tran­script is on Substack.] Who is Emil Kukalj? I was delighted to dis­cuss research and devel­op­ment with an estab­lished figure […]

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