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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Three critics — a settler colonialism critic, an illegal immigration critic, and a mass tourism critic — walk into a bar … Is this the set-up for a joke or a real possibility? What shared concerns might they discuss, and where might their perspectives diverge? It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight Bites question. Your correspondent put the question to the travel & tourism stakeholders in […]
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How are emerging technologies transforming the travel & tourism industry? 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 four respondents — professors, professionals, practitioners — who took the time to share their […]
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Can ‘social tourism’ — charity- and/or taxpayer-supported holidays — help alleviate stress in society and turn the travel & tourism industry’s off-season frowns upside down? Scott McCabe thinks so. Professor McCabe penned this “Good Tourism” Insight at the invitation of Tourism’s Horizon: Travel for the Millions, a “GT” Insight Partner. Family holidays: A fine time … Term-time holiday fines were back in […]
Read More The happiness factor: Social tourism is sustainable tourism
If one assumes that mass tourism is unavoidable without an authoritarian crackdown on mobility, what should be done about it? Kevin Phun suggests that in every challenge lies an opportunity, and proposes how we might manage mass tourism for sustainable, equitable, and progressive outcomes. In less than two hours’ time (as I write this), I will […]
Read More Can we manage mass tourism for sustainable, equitable, and progressive outcomes?
Worried about climate change and associated risks to property, American vacationers are growing reluctant to travel far from home. It’s the third “GT” Insight by Herb Hiller. [You too can write a “Good Tourism” Insight.] Climate change at home and away In this epoch of climate change, a family on Grand Bahama deposits a Norwegian Cruise Line […]
Read More Domestic disasters & destination ‘dupes’: Climate change impels travel closer to home
Delly Chatibura sees a huge opportunity for Botswana to leverage its natural and cultural resources for food security and good food tourism. But conservation, climate, and cultural challenges impede food tourism in Botswana. Food cultures are often integral to tourism, with Bangkok’s street food, New York’s diners, tea in China, and French baguettes being four arbitrary examples. But how many of the world’s tourists are familiar with Botswana’s rich food culture, and the issues attending it?
Read More Conservation, climate, culture challenge food tourism in Botswana