“Good Tourism” news from the Americas

Here you will find news about The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s Part­ners and friends in North Amer­ica, Cent­ral Amer­ica, and South Amer­ica — espe­cially their sus­tain­able tour­ism and/or respons­ible travel activ­it­ies — plus “Good news in tour­ism” and cov­er­age of travel & tour­ism industry events in the Amer­icas 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 North Amer­ic­an, Cent­ral Amer­ic­an, and/or South Amer­ic­an import­ance 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.

Caribbean tourism, fishing, farming bears brunt of climate change: CCCCC


Caribbean tourism climate change. Hurricane Felix

Small Carib­bean islands risk los­ing their entire way of life unless they urgently strengthen defences against a raft of future dis­asters, accord­ing to Ulric Trotz, deputy dir­ect­or at the Carib­bean Com­munity Cli­mate Change Centre (CCCCC). Fish­ing and farm­ing com­munit­ies liv­ing in coastal areas as well the tour­ism industry, which is vital for Carib­bean eco­nom­ies, often […]

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Caribbean sustainable tourism efforts need to step up

July 13, 2017

Caribbean sustainable tourism. Sunset on Manzanillo beach, Margarita island, Venezuela. By Hector Darío, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASunset%40Manzanillo_Beach%2C_Margarita_Island%2C_Venezuela.JPG

The Carib­bean region’s sus­tain­able tour­ism efforts need to step up after mem­bers of the Asso­ci­ation of Carib­bean States (ACS) this week recog­nised 2017 as the Inter­na­tion­al Year of Sus­tain­able Tour­ism for Devel­op­ment and prom­ised to empower com­munity lead­ers to con­trib­ute pos­it­ively to loc­al and region­al tour­ist products. Accord­ing to a Tele­SUR report, ACS Sec­ret­ary-Gen­er­­al Dr […]

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Aviation, tourism can do more to stop human trafficking


tourism stop human trafficking

The US leads in an inter­na­tion­al effort to train air­line and air­port staff to spot and report poten­tial human traf­fick­ing. How­ever does avi­ation lag behind oth­er tour­ism sup­ply chain sec­tors? Report by the Thom­son Reu­ters Found­a­tion. Flight attend­ant Donna Hub­bard was deeply con­cerned when a couple car­ried a boy who was sweat­ing, leth­ar­gic and appeared […]

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Ecotourism & wildlife: To feed or not to feed?

June 18, 2017

1024px Black bear with salmon

A 71-year-old New Hamp­shire, USA artist wants to devel­op an “eco­tour­ism” product based on feed­ing bears and moose, accord­ing to an art­icle in the Sen­tinel Source. Richard Whitney’s concept is simple: Find a remote, wooded area, cre­ate a con­trolled feed­ing site to attract wild­life and charge vis­it­ors to watch. Whit­ney and his part­ner were them­selves charged […]

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Cuba gov’t praises Jardines del Rey hotels for sustainable practices

June 16, 2017

Cuba's government praises Jardines del Rey hotels for their sustainable pratices

Four hotels in Jardines del Rey, Cuba have achieved “good res­ults in meet­ing envir­on­ment­al stand­ards aimed at achiev­ing sus­tain­able tour­ism”, accord­ing to Pren­sa Lat­ina, an inform­a­tion agency for Lat­in Amer­ica. Jardines del Rey (“Gar­dens of the King”) is an archipelago off the north­ern coast of Cuba, in the provinces of Ciego de Ávila and Camagüey. […]

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A PM appointed IY2017 ambassador … oh, and food fish are going extinct

June 13, 2017

world bank un blue economy

Head­lining a UNWTO press release dated June 12 is the fact that the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) appoin­ted the Prime Min­is­ter of Sam­oa, Tuilae­pa Sailele Malielegaoi, as one of nine (9) Spe­cial Ambas­sad­ors of the Inter­na­tion­al Year of Sus­tain­able Tour­ism for Devel­op­ment 2017. The cere­mony took place in New York on June 7 […]

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