“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.

Is child sex tourism on the rise in Goa, India?

May 19, 2017

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The chil­dren of migrant work­ers in Goa, India are increas­ingly exploited for sex by domest­ic and for­eign tour­ists, accord­ing to a report. And tour­ism industry stake­hold­ers should adopt a child-friendly code — per­haps The Code? A research report, Walk­ing the tightrope: Exploit­a­tion of migrant chil­dren in Tour­ism in Goa, says tour­ism has contributed […]

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Colorado Tourism talks inclusive growth, sustainability

May 15, 2017

Pronghorns scamper across the northeast plains of Colorado. Image Credit: Matt Inden/Miles

The Col­or­ado Tour­ism Office (CTO) is speak­ing the lan­guage of inclus­ive growth and sus­tain­ab­il­ity in a new “Col­or­ado Come to Life” cam­paign. “We’re put­ting our focus on gen­er­at­ing greatest fin­an­cial impact pos­sible from exist­ing vis­it­ors,” CTO Dir­ect­or Cathy Ritter reportedly said. “Every corner has the oppor­tun­ity to bene­fit from travel spend­ing.” The US state’s new […]

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Is it the “end of tourism” for Copenhagen?

May 13, 2017

Copenhagen Marathon. Picture: Matthew James Harrison via visitcopenhagen.com

In Feb­ru­ary Denmark’s cap­it­al Copen­ha­gen boldly announced the “end of tour­ism as we know it” and ushered in the rise of “loc­al­hood”. This wasn’t some dysto­pi­an present in which the eco­nom­ic extern­al­it­ies of the travel & tour­ism industry have to be paid for and the emer­gent middle-class masses of Asia are forced to stay at home […]

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