“Good Tourism” Insight Bites

A “GT” Insight Bites post is a col­lec­tion of short writ­ten responses to an identic­al set of pro­pos­i­tions and/or ques­tions that The “Good Tour­ism” Blog puts to a diverse range of travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers. “GT” pub­lishes all the replies after only very light copy-edit­ing, ensur­ing that the respond­ents’ con­sidered thoughts on the mat­ter are faith­fully represented.

Outbound doesn’t care about sustainability | Well-being must include meaning

June 2, 2025

Outbound doesn’t care about sustainability | Well-being must include meaning | BiteX | Photo by David Courbit (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-turtle-in-water-during-daytime-M8xxVih_V_U "GT" cropped it and added the words.

Thanks to Kev­in Phun for his thoughts about out­bound travel agents’ and tour oper­at­ors’ rela­tion­ship with the notion of sus­tain­ab­il­ity, and Wolfgang Georg Arlt for shar­ing his think­ing around well-being and meaning. 

Their responses appear in the order received. 

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Visitor value, values, volume: What’s good where you are?

May 26, 2025

Visitor value, values, volume: What’s good where you are? A "Good Tourism" Insight Bites compilation

When con­sid­er­ing inbound tour­ism where you live, work, or oper­ate, how do you feel about the value vis­it­ors bring, the val­ues they hold, and their num­bers? That is your “GT” Insight Bites chal­lenge. Respond in the com­ments at any time.  For free copy edit­ing, lay­out, and pre­view in time for the offi­cial “GT” Insight Bites com­pil­a­tion, the […]

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Is a travel & tourism career still attractive? Important things to understand in 2025

May 3, 2025

Is a travel & tourism career still attractive? Important things to understand in 2025. Map image with symbols by Harish Sharma (CC0) from Pixabay

Is a travel & tour­ism career still attract­ive in 2025? What is the most import­ant thing that a young per­son should under­stand before embark­ing upon a career in tour­ism? That is your “GT” Insight Bites chal­lenge. Write up to 300 words about the ques­tion in the com­ments at any time. [The dead­line for free copy editing, […]

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Wishwashing tourism

March 3, 2025
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'Wishwashing' tourism. Image by Michaela, at home in Germany • Thank you very much for a like (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/dandelion-heart-wish-wishes-blow-4163657/

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 is your “GT” […]

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Butler asks: How do we solve one of the great conundrums of ‘sustainable’ tourism?

February 24, 2025

Richard Butler asks: How do we solve one of the great conundrums of ‘sustainable’ tourism? Pic by Michael Schwarzenberger (CC0) via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/turbine-aircraft-motor-rotor-590354/

“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 […]

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What is tourism’s biggest opportunity and/or threat where you are in 2025?

January 13, 2025
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What is tourism's biggest opportunity and tourism's biggest threat where you are in 2025?

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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