Here you will find news about The “Good Tourism” Blog’s Partners and friends in Asia (including the Middle East) — especially their sustainable tourism and/or responsible travel activities — plus “Good news in tourism” and coverage of Asian 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 about or of importance to Asia 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.
Because we keep going and going and … Published every Sunday, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tourism … everyone’s business. This week’s good travel & tourism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) “Good Tourism” (“GT”) news COVID ops Tourism governance […]
Read More Good news in tourism October 11 – 17, 2020
Because it’s light and nutritious … Published every Sunday, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tourism … everyone’s business. Your correspondent hit the road to attend family functions in Perth this week, so his usual tracking of good news from the wide world of […]
Read More Good news in tourism October 4 – 10, 2020
Because “never lose infinite hope” … Published every Sunday, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tourism … everyone’s business. This week’s good travel & tourism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) “Good Tourism” (“GT”) news COVID ops Community-based &/or rural tourism […]
Read More Good news in tourism Sep 27 to Oct 3, 2020
Through the COVID-19 pandemic and tourism crisis, hopes rest on contingency “plan B” to sustain the retired logging elephants of Green Hill Valley, Myanmar and the community of people who love them. Hollis Burbank-Hammarlund of Work for Wild Life International knows them well, having led elephant healthcare and welfare workshops at the camp in 2018 and […]
Read More Tourism in crisis: A Myanmar elephant camp & community pivot to plan B
Anurak Community Lodge’s green credentials secure the ‘best of the best’ award for operator YAANA Ventures. YAANA Ventures, the operator of Anurak Community Lodge at Khao Sok National Park in southern Thailand, has been awarded the 2020 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Grand Award in the Sustainability category. The winners were announced during the online PATA Gold […]
Read More Anurak Lodge in Thailand wins PATA Grand Award for sustainability
Because it’s free-range and organic … Published every Sunday, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tourism … everyone’s business. This week’s good travel & tourism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) “Good Tourism (“GT”) news COVID ops The great outdoors […]
Read More Good news in tourism September 20 – 26, 2020