International “Good Tourism” news

Here you will find glob­ally-rel­ev­ant news about The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s Part­ners and friends — espe­cially their sus­tain­able tour­ism and/or respons­ible travel activ­it­ies — plus “Good news in tour­ism” and cov­er­age of inter­na­tion­al 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 inter­na­tion­al 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.

SUNx, Murmuration partnership to support creation of tourism climate action plans


SUNx, Murmuration partnership to support tourism climate action plans. Satellite image Wikiimages (CC0) via Pixabay, https://pixabay.com/photos/map-land-egypt-geography-11043/

SUNx (Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work) and Mur­mur­a­tion have com­bined forces to sup­port tour­ism des­tin­a­tions and busi­nesses in rap­idly cre­at­ing cli­mate action plans. This is an imme­di­ate response to the Baku Tour­ism Declar­a­tion. Murmuration’s power­ful cli­mate risk mod­el­ling tech­no­logy and SUNx Cli­mate Friendly Travel Ser­vices’ AI solu­tions will deliv­er high qual­ity, data led, cli­mate action plans at […]

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Top five most visited “GT” posts of 2024 (& top 10 all-time “GT” & “GT” Travel posts)

December 12, 2024

Top five most visited "Good Tourism" Blog posts of 2024. Image by yohoprashant (CC0) via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/colorful-five-fingers-kid-fingers-4043742/

The last time I put togeth­er lists such as these was in Decem­ber 2021 when many were des­per­ately hop­ing for a bet­ter new year after a tough two.  We saw a bounce in 2022. Now, in Decem­ber 2024, as much of the tour­ism world has fully recovered, many are wor­ried about over­tour­ism again!  In this moment, let’s […]

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SUNx expands climate-friendly ‘Education 4 Action’ with ‘Dodo 4 Kids’


SUNx expands climate-friendly ‘Education 4 Action’ with ‘Dodo 4 Kids’

On this World Tour­ism Day, SUNx Malta is delighted to announce the expan­sion of our Edu­ca­tion 4 Action pro­gram, pla­cing a spe­cial focus on the future lead­ers of tomor­row: our chil­dren, the ones who will have to deal with an inev­it­ably worsen­ing exist­en­tial cli­mate crisis. Cent­ral to this expan­sion is ‘Dodo 4 Kids’, which is designed […]

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PATA Travel Mart 2024 underway with Asia Pacific arrivals forecasts positive

August 28, 2024

PATA Travel Mart 2024 underway with Asia Pacific arrivals forecasts positive

The Pacific Asia Travel Asso­ci­ation (PATA) Travel Mart 2024 gets under­way this morn­ing with some 266 sellers rep­res­ent­ing 168 organ­isa­tions from 24 des­tin­a­tions hop­ing to estab­lish and strengthen rela­tion­ships with 191 buy­ers from 173 organ­isa­tions from 21 source mar­kets. Con­nec­tion Attend­ance at B2B travel trade events like PATA Travel Mart con­tin­ues to be essen­tial. At […]

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Five key challenges for the travel & tourism industry: PATA Chair

August 27, 2024
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Five key challenges for the travel & tourism industry: PATA Chair Peter Semone who was joined by PATA CEO Noor Ahmad Hamid at the media briefing at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand on the eve of PATA Travel Mart 2024, August 27

Pacific Asia Travel Asso­ci­ation (PATA) Chair Peter Semone iden­ti­fied five key chal­lenges for the travel & tour­ism industry dur­ing a media brief­ing on the eve of PATA Travel Mart 2024: Crises of all sorts “There will be more crises,’ Mr Semone said. “Health crises, nat­ur­al dis­asters, and polit­ic­al unrest. They all affect tour­ism.  “Remem­ber, tour­ism is […]

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The trials, successes, and best practices of work integrated learning in tourism


CABI Tourism Cases: work integrated learning in tourism

A spe­cial issue of CABI Tour­ism Cases explores the tri­als, suc­cesses, and best prac­tice examples of work integ­rated learn­ing in tour­ism, hos­pit­al­ity, events, and recre­ation degree pro­grams. The six case stud­ies are free to access until Septem­ber 30, 2024. Work integ­rated learn­ing in tour­ism: The con­text Aca­dem­ic insti­tu­tions around the world con­tin­ue to emphas­ise the importance […]

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