“Good Tourism” news & events

Enjoy “GT’s” monthly “Good news in tour­ism” posts, which sum­mar­ise a month’s worth of “GT” Insights, “GT” Travel, “GT” Part­ner news, and your comments.

Also find here Partner/Sponsor mes­sages from The “Good Tour­ism” Blo­g’s Part­ners and friends plus cov­er­age of travel & tour­ism industry events to which “GT” is invited or oth­er­wise involved. Ad hoc sponsored news posts are also very welcome.

“GT” retired its weekly “Good news in tour­ism” posts in April 2021. The weekly posts fea­tured brief sum­mar­ies of and links to pos­it­ive industry news from off-piste sources. Before Decem­ber 2019, “GT” would sum­mar­ise under-repor­ted news stor­ies or thought-pro­vok­ing fea­ture art­icles by non-industry media. The sources were well-attrib­uted and linked. Any con­tent “GT” repub­lished in full was avail­able for that pur­pose from the likes of The Con­ver­sa­tion and Thom­son Reu­ters Found­a­tion.

World Tourism Day marks launch of Climate Friendly Travel podcast

September 28, 2022

SUNx Malta Climate Friendly Travel Podcast

In cel­eb­ra­tion of World Tour­ism Day and its theme of “Rethink­ing Tour­ism”, SUNx Malta launched a new pod­cast series designed to help tour­ism com­pan­ies and com­munit­ies stay on tar­get for the Par­is 1.5°C lim­it. Announ­cing this on World Tour­ism Day, Septem­ber 27, SUNx Malta Pres­id­ent Pro­fess­or Geof­frey Lip­man said: “Our goal is to encour­age tour­ism stakeholders […]

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10th Rwandan cultural festival opens new community tourism body, promotes gorilla pledge

September 9, 2022

Red Rocks Cultural Festival 2022 Rwanda

The Red Rocks 10th Anniversary Cul­tur­al Fest­iv­al, August 26-Septem­ber 2, brought organ­isa­tions and com­munit­ies togeth­er to cel­eb­rate and pro­mote Rwandan cul­ture, con­ser­va­tion, and sus­tain­able tour­ism.  As an advoc­ate for cul­ture and com­munity, Red Rocks hos­ted per­formers of all ages from the loc­al area.  Vis­it­ors from near and far enjoyed many tra­di­tion­al dances and music, keep­ing Rwandan […]

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Vale Mikhail Gorbachev, planetary hero

and September 3, 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev, May 12, 2010 by Veni (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/veni/4602977436/in/photostream/

Mikhail Gorbachev died on August 30th, 2022. The former Pres­id­ent of the Uni­on of Soviet Social­ist Repub­lics (USSR) is best remembered as the man who engin­eered the peace­ful trans­form­a­tion of the USSR and the open­ing of the Ber­lin Wall. Less known is the fact that dur­ing his incred­ible life he col­lab­or­ated closely with Maurice Strong. Togeth­er they […]

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Good news in travel & tourism July-August 2022

August 26, 2022

Rwandan banana wine banana beer urwagwa by Herve (CC0) via Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/qsQ6r9RycBY

“Good news in travel & tour­ism” wraps up two months of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences. Share it as you would urwag­wa (Rwandan banana beer / wine). It’s “GT”. And go!  (Click/touch a menu item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism” Insights “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites “Good Tour­ism” Insight Inter­view Good news […]

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How to create a tourism trail: Understanding the benefits and the challenges

August 22, 2022

Extant roads and paths can, in whole or in part, be include in new tourism trails. Gailingen am Hochrhein, Germany. Photo by David Bayliss (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/btgKjWhg3rs

Ever wondered what goes into cre­at­ing a tour­ism trail?  Who are involved in cre­at­ing a tour­ism trail? Why start a tour­ism trail?  What is a tour­ism trail, any­way?  Answers to these ques­tion and more are offered in a new online short course cre­ated by the Centre for Respons­ible Tour­ism Singa­pore (CRTS). Learn about the chal­lenges of cre­at­ing a […]

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Rwanda’s neighbours to learn conservation, sustainable development practices

August 17, 2022

Rwandan man sits against a mud or clay wall smoking a pipe, looking at the camera. He's earing a wide=brimmed hat and a tan jacket.

Red Rocks Ini­ti­at­ive for Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment will launch the ‘Vir­unga Trans­bound­ary Ini­ti­at­ive’ in 2022. The Ini­ti­at­ive will share its con­ser­va­tion and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment con­cepts with neigh­bour­ing coun­tries fol­low­ing their suc­cess in Rwanda.  The Vir­unga Trans­bound­ary Ini­ti­at­ive will include com­munit­ies in Uganda and the Demo­crat­ic Repub­lic of the Congo that share the Vir­unga mas­sif with those […]

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