“Good Tourism” news from Europe

Here you will find news about The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s Part­ners and friends in Europe, includ­ing the United King­dom — espe­cially their sus­tain­able tour­ism and/or respons­ible travel activ­it­ies — plus “Good news in tour­ism” and cov­er­age of European 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 of European or UK 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.

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

June 13, 2017

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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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Cruise industry must help solve over-tourism

June 8, 2017

When this ship comes to call it dominates the landscape. Source: KarinKarin / Pixabay

Author­it­ies in uber-pop­u­lar des­tin­a­tions, such as Venice and Bar­celona, often assert that the eco­nom­ic con­tri­bu­tion of mass tour­ism dwarfs the dis­rup­tion caused to pub­lic ser­vices and res­id­ents. How­ever, res­id­ents with no ves­ted interest in the travel & tour­ism industry reg­u­larly and vehe­mently dis­agree. What these places are exper­i­en­cing is “over-tour­ism”, a term an art­icle by […]

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Are “all-inclusive” tourism packages to blame for locals missing out?

June 1, 2017

Geo Routes Cultural Institute President Giannis Balakakis criticises all-inclusive packages. Source BBSF

Geo Routes Cul­tur­al Insti­tute (GRCI) Pres­id­ent Gian­nis Bal­aka­kis cri­ti­cised what he called “tra­di­tion­al” mass tour­ism mod­els, which for dec­ades were the main­stay of the industry in Greece and oth­er Balkans and Black Sea coun­tries. In many cases these mod­els led to the “all-inclus­ive” phe­nomen­on, which meant loc­al com­munit­ies reaped little or no tour­ism rev­en­ue yet […]

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Is it the “end of tourism” for Copenhagen?

May 13, 2017

Copenhagen Marathon. Picture: Matthew James Harrison via visitcopenhagen.com

In Feb­ru­ary Denmark’s cap­it­al Copen­ha­gen boldly announced the “end of tour­ism as we know it” and ushered in the rise of “loc­al­hood”. This wasn’t some dysto­pi­an present in which the eco­nom­ic extern­al­it­ies of the travel & tour­ism industry have to be paid for and the emer­gent middle-class masses of Asia are forced to stay at home […]

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Cyprus hopes fake reef will shore up fisheries, tourism

May 12, 2017

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The Medi­ter­ranean island repub­lic of Cyprus will install an arti­fi­cial reef to sup­port fish­er­ies and “more sus­tain­able” tour­ism, reports Cyprus Mail. The reef is to be con­struc­ted next year off the coast of Pol­is in an area of sea stretch­ing between Lat­chi har­bour and the Anas­sa hotel. The arti­fi­cial reef, which will be the second in […]

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