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.
… because it’s everyone’s business! Published Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tourism. And go! Important “Good Tourism” (“GT”) stuff first: In a fresh “GT” Insight published on Tuesday, responsible tourism and economic development specialist Kevin Phun took a peek […]
Read More Good news in tourism May 10 – 16, 2020
Published Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tourism. And go! Important “GT” stuff first: The expression “an elephant in the room” means an uncomfortable truth we cannot ignore. With tourism cash flows stemmed, many Asian elephants and their mahouts in […]
Read More Good news in tourism May 3 – 9, 2020
Published Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tourism. And go! Your correspondent had a scare Monday night when news came through that his hero, his father, had been rushed to hospital in Perth with a cabinet of nasty symptoms. […]
Read More Good news in tourism Apr 26 to May 2, 2020
Published Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tourism. And go! “GT” stuff first: Rachel Sherwood, a travel blogger from Oxfordshire in England, is organising well-deserved holidays for healthcare workers at the front lines of the coronavirus COVID-19 fight. Operation Recuperation […]
Read More Good news in tourism April 19 – 25, 2020
Published Sunday to be ready Monday, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tourism. And go! Seriously. Are host communities the vaccine against overtourism? If they are indeed taken seriously by policymakers then host communities must surely offer protection against overtourism and its associated ills. […]
Read More Good news in tourism April 5 – 11, 2020
With insights representing the small, the medium, and the large; the private, the public, and the PPP; those who care about profit and those who are not-for-profit; received wisdom and heterodox views; The “Good Tourism” Blog is a truly inclusive platform for the travel & tourism industry as it grapples with responsibilities, dreams of sustainability, […]
Read More Good news in tourism Mar 29 to Apr 4, 2020