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“Good Tour­ism” posts that include a link to down­load some­thing, such as a report or ref­er­ence resource related to sus­tain­able tour­ism and/or respons­ible tour­ism; usu­ally in PDF format.

A community-based tourism dilemma: COVID’s ‘new normal’ vs ‘back to normal’

November 10, 2020

Community-based tourism Myanmar. "CBT. Visit Myanmar. Visit Dawei."

Skål recently recog­nised the Inter­na­tion­al Trade Centre’s Myan­mar Inclus­ive Tour­ism Pro­ject with a sus­tain­able tour­ism award. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Pro­ject con­sult­ant Peter Richards describes the pre-pan­­dem­ic prom­ise of new com­munity-based tour­ism products, their chal­lenges now, and how com­munit­ies are hand­ling COVID safety con­cerns as they con­sider reopen­ing.  At the start of 2020, the […]

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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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Supply lines: A former soldier’s take on tourism’s failure to win hearts & minds

May 26, 2020

PangSoong Lodge nature trail. Image supplied by author.

How does a spe­cial forces sol­dier become an out­spoken pro­ponent for and awar­ded prac­ti­tion­er of sin­cerely respons­ible tour­ism? In this “GT” Insight, Shane K Beary takes us back to his past before ask­ing us to con­sider his vis­ion for the future; a more equit­able com­munity-based travel & tour­ism industry. And it’s all about the sup­ply chain. […]

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How will 100,000 climate champions achieve a climate-neutral future for tourism?

December 12, 2019

climate neutral future tourism

Olly Wheatcroft, Pro­gram Man­ager for “GT” Insight Part­ner SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work, writes about the organ­isa­tion’s Cli­mate Cham­pi­ons Pro­gram, an edu­ca­tion and train­ing ini­ti­at­ive to sup­port 100,000 next-gen­er­­a­­tion lead­ers in all UN regions by 2030. The SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work (with the x being “exist­en­tial”) is a new sys­tem for tour­ism des­tin­a­tions and industry stake­hold­ers to build climate […]

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SUN, WTTC report strong on “existential climate crisis” & tourism’s response

October 2, 2019

cft ambitions report 2019 snip

The SUNx (“Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work”) Pro­gram has issued its first annu­al “Cli­mate Friendly Travel – Ambi­tion Report”.  Pre­pared on the side­lines of the Septem­ber UN Gen­er­al Assembly and in col­lab­or­a­tion with the World Travel & Tour­ism Coun­cil (WTTC) “to sup­port a Cli­mate Neut­ral Travel & Tour­ism Sec­tor by 2050”, the doc­u­ment was made avail­able to […]

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How can travel & tourism protect children from sexual exploitation?

September 24, 2019
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how travel tourism protects children from sexual exploitation

Jod­ie Spen­cer tells us why the travel & tour­ism industry has a cru­cial role to play in pro­tect­ing chil­dren from sexu­al exploit­a­tion, out­lines some of the loc­al and glob­al efforts to do just that, and sug­gests how we can all play our part. Travel & tour­ism brings a great deal to loc­al com­munit­ies. It gen­er­ates 10% […]

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