“Good Tourism” Insights

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.

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.

“Good Tour­ism” Insights are ori­gin­al posts by aca­dem­ics, experts, and prac­ti­tion­ers who are keen to share their sus­tain­able tour­ism and respons­ible tour­ism insights, expert­ise, and exper­i­ences, in plain Eng­lish, for the bene­fit of all travel & tour­ism stakeholders.

Each “GT” Insight rep­res­ents the opin­ion of its author, NOT neces­sar­ily the opin­ion of The “Good Tour­ism” Blog, its Part­ners, or its pub­lish­er. The “Good Tour­ism” Blog neither pays nor is paid for any “GT” Insight. 

Any­one with an informed and sin­cerely-held opin­ion about travel & tour­ism is wel­come to sub­mit a “GT” Insight for pub­lic­a­tion. The “GT” Insight guidelines are very simple.

“GT” Insight Bites: On tourism technology, progress, and local benefit-sharing

August 22, 2023

“GT” Insight Bites: On tourism technology, progress, and local benefit-sharing. Maasai warriors image by David Mark from Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/maasai-tribe-kenya-sky-clouds-men-83563/

Write no more than 300 words on a travel & tour­ism top­ic that is import­ant to you. This is an open invit­a­tion to travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers to con­trib­ute a “GT” Insight Bite.  Simply con­tact “GT”. Unlike oth­er “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites that have dead­lines and are based on spe­cif­ic ques­tions or hypo­thet­ic­al scen­ari­os, this invitation […]

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Indigenous tourism’s interest-action disparity reflects sustainable tourism’s ‘say-do gap’

August 15, 2023

Indigenous tourism’s interest-action disparity reflects sustainable tourism’s ‘say-do gap’. Image by Scott Umstattd (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/trYLgKiDsR8

Indi­gen­ous tour­ism has enorm­ous poten­tial as trav­el­lers’ expect­a­tions evolve, accord­ing to Alastair Naughton. Per­haps the biggest chal­lenge now is turn­ing interest in indi­gen­ous tour­ism exper­i­ences into invest­ment and book­ings. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. (You too can write a “GT” Insight.)

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Who can be a successful leader of a highly effective tourism association in 2023?

August 8, 2023

What makes a successful leader of a highly effective tourism association in 2023? Smiley and frownies by Magic Creative (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/smiley-emoji-emote-symbol-emoticon-1041796/

Lead­er­ship has nev­er been more chal­len­ging, accord­ing to K Michael Hay­wood.  Who can respond to mul­tiple (real and ima­gined) crises, bal­ance com­pet­ing stake­hold­er demands with­in a coher­ent vis­ion, and main­tain one’s own men­tal health while attend­ing to the feel­ings of oth­ers?  It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. (You too can write a “GT” Insight.) In the […]

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Hey, travel & tourism, are you ‘neocolonialist’?

August 2, 2023
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Tourism and neocolonialism. A surrealist representation of tourism as a neocolonialist enterprise by DALL-E-2

Do your travel & tour­ism oper­a­tions or aca­dem­ic pur­suits con­trib­ute to a “con­tinu­ation or reim­pos­i­tion of imper­i­al­ist rule”? Are they part of your nation’s efforts to influ­ence a less developed land and exploit its resources? As a travel & tour­ism stake­hold­er, are you, as some would say, a neo­co­lo­ni­al­ist?  Dis­cuss. Your cor­res­pond­ent put these questions […]

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From subsistence to something special: The rise of luxury agritourism

July 18, 2023
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Luxury agritourism with free-range chickens at Margi Farm, Greece

The oppor­tun­ity to earn a sup­ple­ment­al income from agri­t­our­ism is very appeal­ing to many farm­ers who have tra­di­tion­ally struggled to sur­vive let alone thrive. So while the concept of ‘lux­ury’ is evolving, could the world’s tra­di­tion­al agri­cul­tur­ists be sit­ting on a lux­ury agri­t­our­ism gold mine? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight by Stefania Fren.

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Mountain biking in Scotland? Not if you’re dependent on public transport

July 11, 2023
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Mountain biking in Scotland? Not if you’re dependent on public transport ... Linn Of Dee waterfall image supplied by Alastair Naughton

Scot­land’s tour­ism author­it­ies have been keep­ing glob­al stake­hold­ers happy by declar­ing ‘cli­mate emer­gency’ and plan­ning ‘trans­form­a­tion­al tour­ism’, but have they lost touch with Scots? In his first “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Alastair Naughton ques­tioned the poor access­ib­il­ity of Scot­tish ski resorts. In this “GT” Insight he won­ders why pub­lic trans­port is mak­ing it more dif­fi­cult to go […]

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