“Good Tourism” news from Africa

Here you will find news about The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s Part­ners and friends in Africa — espe­cially their sus­tain­able tour­ism and/or respons­ible travel activ­it­ies — plus “Good news in tour­ism” and cov­er­age of Afric­an travel & tour­ism industry events to which “GT” is invited or oth­er­wise involved. Ad hoc sponsored news posts are also very welcome.

Before Decem­ber 2019, “GT” would sum­mar­ise under-repor­ted news stor­ies or thought-pro­vok­ing fea­ture art­icles of rel­ev­ance to Africa by non-industry media. The sources were well-attrib­uted and linked. Any con­tent repub­lished in full was avail­able rights-free for that pur­pose from the likes of The Con­ver­sa­tion or the Thom­son Reu­ters Found­a­tion.

South Africa prioritising inclusive tourism growth

May 11, 2017

South Africa's Minister of Tourism Tokozile Xasa to dirve inclusive tourism. Picture: Tsheko Kabasia

South Africa’s Tour­ism Min­is­ter Tokoz­ile Xasa will drive a strategy of inclus­ive tour­ism growth, pro­mot­ing small- and medi­um-sized entre­pren­eurs, Busi­ness Live reports. A tour­ism devel­op­ment fund will be cre­ated by the gov­ern­ment in col­lab­or­a­tion with devel­op­ment fin­ance insti­tu­tions to sup­port small- and medi­um-sized enter­prises (SMEs), includ­ing com­munity-based pro­jects. While tour­ism growth had been impress­ive in […]

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Kenya crocodile cages not ecotourism

May 11, 2017

Not ecotourism. Kenya crocodiles at Oldoiyo Lengai Hotel in Nyeri County, Kenya. Photo: Jospeph Kanyi | NMG

Due to a slow­down in Kenya’s tour­ism sec­tor, a hotel in Nyeri County, Cent­ral High­lands, is bank­ing on cro­codile cages to boost its income. Based on a Busi­ness Daily (Africa) report, “Hotel banks on eco-tour­ism to boost income”, The “Good Tour­ism” Blog is highly skep­tic­al of the pro­ject’s “eco­tour­ism” cre­den­tials. Indeed the pro­ject as described […]

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