“Good Tourism” news from Oceania

Here you will find news about The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s Part­ners and friends in Aus­tralia, New Zea­l­and, Pap­ua New Guinea, and oth­er Pacific nations — espe­cially their sus­tain­able tour­ism and/or respons­ible travel activ­it­ies — plus “Good news in tour­ism” and cov­er­age of travel & tour­ism industry events in the Ocean­ia region 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 import­ance to the Ocean­ia region 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.

South Pacific Tourism looks to its ocean & the ‘circular economy’

June 15, 2017

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In the wake of the first United Nations Oceans Con­fer­ence last week, the South Pacific Tour­ism Organ­isa­tion (SPTO) has called on the Pacific’s tour­ism industry to pro­tect and sus­tain­ably man­age the oceans for tour­ism devel­op­ment. Tour­ism is a tar­get under Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goal (SDG) 14.7: “By 2030, increase the eco­nom­ic bene­fits to Small Island developing […]

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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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Sunshine Coast, Queensland looks to accessible tourism

June 2, 2017

The Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia is looking at becoming universally accessible. Source: My Sunshine Coast

The Sun­shine Coast in Queens­land, Aus­tralia is look­ing at becom­ing a uni­ver­sally access­ible tour­ism des­tin­a­tion. With one in five Queenslanders hav­ing a dis­ab­il­ity and an age­ing pop­u­la­tion using more mobil­ity aids, every­day access to facil­it­ies on the Sun­shine Coast is becom­ing increas­ingly dif­fi­cult, accord­ing to the Sun­shine Coast Coun­cil. The Coun­cil will host an Inclusive […]

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Pacific unsurprisingly strong on sustainability rhetoric

June 1, 2017

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Giv­en that island nations have most to lose from sea level rises, it is no sur­prise that Fran­cois Mar­tel, sec­ret­ary-gen­er­­al of Pacific Islands Devel­op­ment For­um (PIDF) believes that any invest­ment in adapt­a­tion to, and mit­ig­a­tion of, cli­mate change makes sense. PIDF reck­ons the Pacific needs devel­op­ment pro­cesses that are: Respons­ive Par­ti­cip­at­ory Inclus­ive Account­able Out­­­come-driv­en Able to balance […]

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