“Good Tourism” downloads

“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.

Successful sustainable tourism is NOT all about the environment, society, economy

October 23, 2017

Successful sustainable tourism is NOT all about the environment, society, economy

Suc­cess­ful sus­tain­able tour­ism is not only about envir­on­ment­al, social, and eco­nom­ic imper­at­ives; it’s about mar­ket­ing too! In oth­er words, suc­cess­ful sus­tain­ab­il­ity strategies solve prob­lems for cus­tom­ers. So argues James McGregor, Founder & CEO of Blue Tribe, in this “GT” Insight. I have a con­fes­sion to make. Some­times when I travel for busi­ness or pleas­ure I […]

Read More Successful sustainable tourism is NOT all about the environment, society, economy
Posted in Insights & Best Practices, Downloads
Tags: , ,

World Bank to target support for PNG community-based tourism

October 15, 2017

1024px Bainingsfiredancer

The World Bank’s upcom­ing US$20 mil­lion Tour­ism Sec­tor Devel­op­ment Pro­ject in Pap­ua New Guinea (PNG) will include “tar­geted sup­port for com­munity-led micro-enter­­­prises to cre­ate jobs, espe­cially for women”. The pro­ject will work with PNG gov­ern­ment and industry play­ers on an “integ­rated approach to tour­ism” in the provinces of East New Bri­tain and Mil­ne Bay and will […]

Read More World Bank to target support for PNG community-based tourism
Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Oceania, Downloads
Tags: ,

Coalition promotes Child Safe Tourism in Myanmar

September 21, 2017
One Comment

Myanmar coalition promotes Child Safe Tourism

While the world observes the troubles between the Rohingya and their neigh­bours in Myan­mar, the Uni­on’s tour­ism min­istry and the Myan­mar Respons­ible Tour­ism Insti­tute (MRTI) are work­ing with UNICEF to pro­mote Child Safe Tour­ism. Accord­ing to the Min­istry of Hotels and Tour­ism (MoHT), since July 31: “… sur­vey­ing and hold­ing aware­ness cam­paigns are being under­taken in […]

Read More Coalition promotes Child Safe Tourism in Myanmar
Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Asia, Downloads
Tags: , , , ,

“Historical moment” as tourism ethics code becomes a convention

September 16, 2017

unwto global code tourism ethics cover cr

The mem­ber states of the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) have approved the UNWTO Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Tour­ism Eth­ics. This is based on the Glob­al Code of Eth­ics for Tour­ism (PDF 787 KB) and is, accord­ing to a UNWTO press release upon which this post is based, the first inter­na­tion­al con­ven­tion ini­ti­ated by the UNWTO. […]

Read More “Historical moment” as tourism ethics code becomes a convention
Posted in Downloads, "GT" news & events, "GT" news international
Tags: , ,

Pantanal jaguar ecotourists willing to compensate ranchers for stock losses

September 14, 2017

Wildlife ecotourists willing to compensate ranchers

Most wild­life eco­tour­ists in the Pantanal region of South Amer­ica say they are will­ing to com­pensate cattle ranch­ers for live­stock taken by wild jag­uars. This is accord­ing to a new study, “The num­bers of the beast: Valu­ation of jag­uar (Pan­thera onca) tour­ism and cattle depred­a­tion in the Brazili­an Pantanal”, by Fernando R. Tor­tato, Thi­ago J. Izzo, […]

Read More Pantanal jaguar ecotourists willing to compensate ranchers for stock losses
Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news from the Americas, Downloads
Tags: ,

Palau tackles over-tourism with responsible tourism

September 12, 2017

Palau tackles over-tourism via responsible tourism and sustainable tourism. Palau. By LuxTonnerre (CC BY 2.0) via Wikimedia.

The UNWTO & WTM Min­is­ters’ Sum­mit will debate over-tour­ism, Novem­ber 7, at WTM Lon­don 2017. While seni­or fig­ures pre­pare their talk­ing points, the Microne­sian archipelago of Palau is mak­ing moves now to com­bat the phe­nomen­on. Accord­ing to Repub­lic of Palau Pres­id­ent Tommy E Remen­gasau, Jr, in his intro­duct­ory mes­sage for the Palau Respons­ible Tour­ism Policy […]

Read More Palau tackles over-tourism with responsible tourism
Posted in Downloads, "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Oceania
Tags: ,