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.
Welcome to The “Good Tourism” Blog’s first summary of and links to a week of good news and quirkiness in the world of travel & tourism. Published on Sunday to be ready on Monday morning, it’s the perfect positive start to a working week in travel & tourism! Share it with your colleagues. In no […]
Read More Good news in tourism December 1 – 7, 2019
About 30 of the estimated 12,000 FARC members demobilised under a peace accord with Colombia’s government have chosen ecotourism as a path to reintegration. The travel & tourism industry would do well to support them. Full story by Anastasia Moloney writing for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. As a former rebel fighter, Ximena Cruz used to […]
Read More Former FARC rebels turn ecotourism guides, but peace remains fragile
At home in the United States, Kerrie Springer takes pride in being environmentally conscious. So when she booked a week’s getaway at the Bucuti and Tara Beach Resort in Aruba, she choose the “green stay” option, agreeing to reuse her sheets and towels rather than have them changed each day. “You don’t do that at home, […]
Read More From smarter energy to less plastic, Caribbean resorts go green
While the Galapagos tourism industry relies on natural and historical and natural history attractions, it is also one of the threats to that same heritage … By Veronica Toral-Granda, PhD candidate, and Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, writing for The Conversation. Native species are particularly vulnerable on islands, because […]
Read More Galapagos tourism threatens native wildlife
Working undercover in bars and brothels across Southeast Asia to combat child sex tourism and slavery, campaigner Kevin Campbell has posed many times as a tourist looking to buy sex with a girl. But these days, Campbell, who works for the anti-trafficking group The Exodus Road, says it is far less common to see young girls […]
Read More Child sex tourism goes suburban, rural, online
Most wildlife ecotourists in the Pantanal region of South America say they are willing to compensate cattle ranchers for livestock taken by wild jaguars. This is according to a new study, “The numbers of the beast: Valuation of jaguar (Panthera onca) tourism and cattle depredation in the Brazilian Pantanal”, by Fernando R. Tortato, Thiago J. Izzo, […]
Read More Pantanal jaguar ecotourists willing to compensate ranchers for stock losses