“Good Tourism” Events

Inform­a­tion about, and cov­er­age of, travel & tour­ism industry events that The “Good Tour­ism” Blog attends in per­son or oth­er­wise sup­ports. Sponsored posts are very welcome.

SUNx Malta to stage first Strong Earth Youth Summit

December 23, 2020

The ‘Strong Earth Youth Summit’ (SEYS), April 29, 2021

“Good Tour­ism” Part­ner announce­ment: Youth Sum­mit to cre­ate tomorrow’s Cli­mate Friendly Travel lead­ers through a vir­tu­al pro­gram of fun and edu­ca­tion­al events, as well as cre­ate Cli­mate Friendly Travel Cham­pi­ons. SUNx Malta will host the first ever cli­mate friendly youth travel sum­mit in April 2021. The ‘Strong Earth Youth Sum­mit’ (SEYS) will include lec­tures, workshops […]

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Regenerative ecotourism: Asking questions is the best place to start

December 3, 2020
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Overland track, Tasmania Wilderness. Image by pen_ash (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/overland-track-tasmania-wilderness-4111331/

“Ask­ing ques­tions is the best place to start,” Anna Pol­lock said dur­ing the after­noon of the third and final day of the 2020 Glob­al Eco Asia-Pacific Tour­ism Con­fer­ence. And she’s right, of course, yet no-one got the oppor­tun­ity to ask her any! Ms Pol­lock may be right about the bene­fit of ques­tions, but she’s obvi­ously not […]

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Re: Ecotourism

December 2, 2020

Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk, Walpole, Western Australia. Image by Komkick (CC0) via pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/tree-top-walk-west-australia-forest-3847669/

Sev­er­al speak­ers con­sidered what eco­tour­ism might look like post-COV­­ID and explored “revolu­tion­ary” ideas dur­ing the second day of the 2020 Glob­al Eco Asia-Pacific Tour­ism Con­fer­ence. And, pre­dict­ably, there were lots of oth­er “re-” words ban­died about — Reset. Rethink. Redesign. Reflect. Reboot. Regen­er­ate. … — words bet­ter applied to the travel industry at large rather than the “eco-” niche; […]

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‘Not good enough. Move your … !’ Grit, honesty, hope, and how to survive a crisis

December 1, 2020
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Sandpaper in different grits (40, 80, 150, 240, 600) By Simon Eugster (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schleifpapier_verschiedene_Sorten.jpg

Politi­cians and pub­lic ser­vants spruiked their respect­ive places and tax-pay­er-fun­­ded ini­ti­at­ives, and industry giants and glob­al con­sult­ants had their say, but it was the small entre­pren­eurs who were the most inspir­ing speak­ers on the first day of the 2020 Glob­al Eco Asia-Pacific Tour­ism Con­fer­ence. What mat­ters? Indeed Sonia Beck­with, co-own­er of Live Nin­ga­loo, had a […]

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First SUNx climate-friendly travel think tank releases calls to act & act now

February 29, 2020

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The key calls to action from the inaug­ur­al SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work Cli­mate Friendly Travel Think Tank that con­cluded in Malta were (accord­ing to the offi­cial press release): The Cli­mate Crisis is eXist­en­tial. All stake­hold­ers includ­ing Trans­port, Hos­pit­al­ity, Travel Ser­vices, and Infra­struc­ture Pro­viders must urgently start the trans­form­a­tion in 2020 to get onto the Par­is 1.5o […]

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It’s time: Tourism event organisers & moderators must shut down selfish speakers

March 8, 2019

It is time tourism event organisers and session moderators shut down selfish speakers. Featured image: "Finite World" by Joel Penner (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/featheredtar/3077913104 "GT" cropped it.

The 2019 Glob­al Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Coun­cil (GSTC) Asia-Pacific Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Con­fer­ence, Feb­ru­ary 28-March 2, was an enjoy­able event atten­ded by a good num­ber of pas­sion­ate pro­fes­sion­als from across the Asia Pacific region.  And there was ample oppor­tun­ity in the pro­gram to mingle and to net­work, which many (most?) people would count as the primary reason […]

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