“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.

Tourism in crisis: A Myanmar elephant camp & community pivot to plan B

and October 2, 2020

An elephant of Green Hill Valley Elephant Camp, Shan state, Myanmar. (Image by Hollis Burbank-Hammarlund). Inset: GHV's Founders Tin Win Maw (Left) and Htun Htun Wynn (Image courtesy of GHV).

Through the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and tour­ism crisis, hopes rest on con­tin­gency “plan B” to sus­tain the retired log­ging ele­phants of Green Hill Val­ley, Myan­mar and the com­munity of people who love them.  Hol­lis Bur­b­ank-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al knows them well, hav­ing led ele­phant health­care and wel­fare work­shops at the camp in 2018 and […]

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Anurak Lodge in Thailand wins PATA Grand Award for sustainability

September 28, 2020

Anurak Community Lodge staff

Anurak Com­munity Lodge’s green cre­den­tials secure the ‘best of the best’ award for oper­at­or YAANA Ven­tures. YAANA Ven­tures, the oper­at­or of Anurak Com­munity Lodge at Khao Sok Nation­al Park in south­ern Thai­l­and, has been awar­ded the 2020 Pacific Asia Travel Asso­ci­ation (PATA) Grand Award in the Sus­tain­ab­il­ity cat­egory. The win­ners were announced dur­ing the online PATA Gold […]

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Good news in tourism September 20 – 26, 2020

September 27, 2020

Apple harvest. By lumix2004 (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/apple-orchard-apple-trees-red-1873078/

Because it’s free-range and organ­ic … Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism … everyone’s busi­ness. This week’s good travel & tour­ism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism (“GT”) news COVID ops The great outdoors […]

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SUNx Malta launches “Climate Friendly Travel Registry”

September 25, 2020

SUNx Malta Launches Climate Friendly Travel Registry Supporting 2050 Climate Neutral & Sustainability Ambitions of Travel & Tourism

Press release from “Good Tour­ism” Part­ner SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work: Today dur­ing Cli­mate Week NYC and in the side-lines of UN Gen­er­al Assembly, SUNx Malta launched a Cli­mate Friendly Travel Registry for 2050 Cli­mate Neut­ral & Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Ambi­tions in part­ner­ship with the World Travel & Tour­ism Coun­cil (WTTC), and Thompson Okanagan Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation (TOTA). The idea […]

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Good news in tourism September 13 – 19, 2020

September 20, 2020
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“Very sweet,” she said. Spring wildflowers, Walpole, Western Australia. Image by your correspondent, David Gillbanks.

Because TLM (tour­ism live­li­hoods mat­ter) … Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism … everyone’s busi­ness. This week’s good travel & tour­ism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism (“GT”) news COVID ops Net-zero travel Ecotourism, […]

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Good news in tourism September 6 – 12, 2020

September 13, 2020

Stand by. Image by natsan (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/boat-gear-technique-navigation-181657/

Because it ain’t all bad! 🙂 Pub­lished every Sunday, “Good news in tour­ism” is the per­fect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tour­ism … everyone’s busi­ness. This week’s good travel & tour­ism news menu: (Click / touch an item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism (“GT”) news Tour­ism policy & governance […]

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