“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.

Good news in tourism April 5 – 11, 2020

April 12, 2020

Lake Wakatipu, near Queenstown New Zealand. By Rex Boggs (CC BY-ND 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/rexboggs5/29407295502

Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism. And go! Ser­i­ously. Are host com­munit­ies the vac­cine against over­tour­ism? If they are indeed taken ser­i­ously by poli­cy­makers then host com­munit­ies must surely offer pro­tec­tion against over­tour­ism and its asso­ci­ated ills. […]

Read More Good news in tourism April 5 – 11, 2020

Good news in tourism Mar 29 to Apr 4, 2020

April 5, 2020

Downtown Seattle, Washington state, USA at sunset. By Tiffany Von Arnim (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/tiffany98101/15623134190

With insights rep­res­ent­ing the small, the medi­um, and the large; the private, the pub­lic, and the PPP; those who care about profit and those who are not-for-profit; received wis­dom and het­ero­dox views; The “Good Tour­ism” Blog is a truly inclus­ive plat­form for the travel & tour­ism industry as it grapples with respons­ib­il­it­ies, dreams of sustainability, […]

Read More Good news in tourism Mar 29 to Apr 4, 2020

Good news in tourism March 22 – 28, 2020

March 29, 2020

A masked and gloved couple in love at the 2010 Carnival of Venice. By Frank Kovalchek (CC BY 2.0) via Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Venice#/media/File:Venice_Carnival_-_Masked_Lovers_(2010).jpg

Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism. And go! “GT” stuff first (scroll down to skip): The “Good Tour­ism” Blog will push through this COVID-19 crisis, bring­ing you the usu­al links to pos­it­ive industry news and ideas via “Good […]

Read More Good news in tourism March 22 – 28, 2020

Good news in tourism March 15 – 21, 2020

March 22, 2020

Home to port, Luang Prabang, Laos. Image by David Gillbanks,

Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism. And go! “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work says tour­ism “can walk and chew gum at the same time” when it comes to deal­ing with COVID-19 and aspir­ing to SUNx’s […]

Read More Good news in tourism March 15 – 21, 2020

Good news in tourism March 8 – 14, 2020

March 15, 2020

Couple dancing in Argentina. Source (CC0). https://www.pickpik.com/emotional-couple-tango-dance-argentina-buenos-aires-4467

Pub­lished Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new work week in travel & tour­ism. And go! The World Eco­nom­ic For­um (WEF) describes itself as “a plat­form for the world’s 1,000 lead­ing com­pan­ies”. Main­stream media and politi­cians hang on to WEF’s every utter­ance, pre­sum­ably because […]

Read More Good news in tourism March 8 – 14, 2020

Good news in tourism March 1 – 7, 2020

March 8, 2020

“It’s not easy being green” _ Kermit the Frog. Image by Markus Spiske (CC0).

Pub­lished Sunday to be ready on Monday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new work week. Let’s get stuck in … And go! Import­ant “GT” stuff first: “GT” asked a sample of Tour­ism Declares Cli­mate Change sig­nat­or­ies what they meant by “sys­tem change” and “urgent reg­u­lat­ory action” and on Tuesday […]

Read More Good news in tourism March 1 – 7, 2020