Dancers, singers, and drummers from a local women’s cooperative welcome visitors to the Red Rocks Cultural Center in Nyakinama village, Rwanda. Pic by David Gillbanks.
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With ‘greenwashing’ and other forms of empty rhetoric and ineffective policymaking allegedly rampant, is the travel & tourism industry, its students and consultants, engaged in ‘wishwashing’: hoping motivations and incentive structures are better aligned to our wishes than what they are in the real world? Yes? No? Sometimes? Maybe? Offer examples. And that, my friend, is […]
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“Interesting range of views”, Richard Butler (of Tourism Area Life Cycle model fame) writes in the comments section of the “GT” Insight Bites on opportunities and threats to tourism in 2025. “How do we square the first response re air travel and the second and fourth positive responses about tourism in [Southeast] Asia where many of the […]
Read More Butler asks: How do we solve one of the great conundrums of ‘sustainable’ tourism?
What is tourism’s biggest opportunity and/or threat where you are in 2025? It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight Bites question. Your correspondent put the question to the travel & tourism stakeholders in the “GT” network, inviting responses of no more than 300 words. (You too can join the “GT” network. Register.) Thanks to the nine good people — professors, professionals, and practitioners — who took the time […]
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‘Nostalgia. It ain’t what it used to be!’ Our travel tastes are often shaped by the memories of childhood holiday experiences, or of stories passed down through the generations. Marketers often play to this. What is the role of nostalgia in holidaymaking, from an individual or commercial perspective? It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight Bites question. Your correspondent put […]
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How can the European Union’s (EU) travel and hospitality sectors establish clear responsibility boundaries while ensuring environmental, social, and governance (ESG) accountability across the entire tourism value chain? Robin Boustead shares his first “Good Tourism” Insight. Looming deadlines, fines, (prison?) We are rapidly approaching the end of the first year of data gathering for companies […]
Read More Wasn’t me! Defining tourism sub-sector responsibilities for EU ESG reporting
Like it or not, geopolitics affects travel patterns. How can the tourism industry where you are better balance the political sensitivities of local and international stakeholders? It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight Bites question. Your correspondent put the question to the travel & tourism stakeholders in the “GT” network, inviting responses of no more than 300 words. (You too can join […]
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