“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.

Mystical inspiration, permaculture & ecotourism in Peru

June 10, 2017

Mystical inspiration, permaculture, & ecotourism in Peru. Source. Ecoaldeas Peru Facebook page

A banker with a “mys­tic vis­ion” has built a social busi­ness that has helped a rur­al com­munity in Peru lever­age eco­tour­ism, sus­tain­able farm­ing, and non-tim­ber forest products to sus­tain­ably man­age its resources, accord­ing to an art­icle in Eco­sys­tem Mar­ket­place. San Roque de Cum­baza (San Roque) is a town in the San Martín region of Peru, a 45-minute drive […]

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Thompson Okanagan, Canada, seeks “Biosphere” status

May 27, 2017

Thompson Okanagan region, Canada, seeks "Biosphere" status. Source: TOTA

The Thompson Okanagan region in Brit­ish Columbia, Canada is seek­ing the “Bio­sphere Des­tin­a­tion Cer­ti­fic­ate”, which could make it only the 20th des­tin­a­tion in the world to achieve this. Thompson Okanagan Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation (TOTA) Pres­id­ent & CEO Glenn Mandzi­uk has signed a “Let­ter of Com­mit­ment” (LoC) with the Respons­ible Tour­ism Insti­tute (RTI). Sign­ing the LoC with […]

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Guyana community-based tourism: “Partnership in development”

May 16, 2017

Moraikobai community members

The only indi­gen­ous com­munity in Guyana’s Region Five is being touted by GINA, the Gov­ern­ment Inform­a­tion Agency, as an emer­ging com­munity-based tour­ism des­tin­a­tion. With a pop­u­la­tion of just over 1,200, Moraikobai is loc­ated on the Maha­icony River, about four hours by boat from the Guyanese cap­it­al Geor­getown. As repor­ted by GINA, Guyana’s Vice Pres­id­ent and […]

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Colorado Tourism talks inclusive growth, sustainability

May 15, 2017

Pronghorns scamper across the northeast plains of Colorado. Image Credit: Matt Inden/Miles

The Col­or­ado Tour­ism Office (CTO) is speak­ing the lan­guage of inclus­ive growth and sus­tain­ab­il­ity in a new “Col­or­ado Come to Life” cam­paign. “We’re put­ting our focus on gen­er­at­ing greatest fin­an­cial impact pos­sible from exist­ing vis­it­ors,” CTO Dir­ect­or Cathy Ritter reportedly said. “Every corner has the oppor­tun­ity to bene­fit from travel spend­ing.” The US state’s new […]

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Caribbean Tourism sets students a sustainability challenge

May 12, 2017

A Carribean beach

Stu­dents will be chal­lenged to present “well-researched, prac­tic­al, and fin­an­­cially-viable sus­tain­able tour­ism pro­jects” at an event hos­ted by the Carib­bean Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (CTO) next month. CTO-USA Dir­ect­or Sylma Brown said: “Tour­ism edu­ca­tion is a crit­ic­al ele­ment of sus­tain­ab­il­ity in the Carib­bean and the CTO is com­mit­ted to ensur­ing that the bright­est and best lead the tourism […]

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Cuba seminar to focus on sustainable ecotourism

May 10, 2017

Cuba ecotourism

Cuba is increas­ingly focused on a viable and sus­tain­able eco­tour­ism mod­el based on envir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion and con­ser­va­tion, accord­ing to Pren­sa Lat­ina. “Nature, adven­ture and rur­al tour­ism, are mod­al­it­ies that make a con­sid­er­able con­tri­bu­tion to the travel industry … “Cuba has a com­pre­hens­ive Nation­al Sys­tem of Pro­tec­ted Areas (SNAP) that con­trol tour­ism devel­op­ments in import­ant nation­al and […]

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