“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.

Venice ‘bookable’: Italians lose freedom of movement

May 8, 2024
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Are Venice’s new day-tripper rules and regulations having the desired effect? Or are they unreasonably restricting Italians' freedom of movement? Venice carnival masks image by Leo (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/venice-mask-venice-venice-carnival-4764619/ "GT" added "Halt!"

Are Venice’s new day-trip­per rules hav­ing the desired effect? Or are they unreas­on­ably restrict­ing Itali­ans’ free­dom of move­ment? This is Domin­ic Standish’s second “Good Tour­ism” Insight at the invit­a­tion of Tourism’s Hori­zon, a “GT” Insight Part­ner. [You too can write a “GT” Insight. Your organ­isa­tion can also become a “GT” Part­ner.] Book­ings and fees Since April 25, […]

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Good news in travel & tourism February-March 2024

March 29, 2024

Share 'Good news in travel & tourism' as you would a picnic; as you would a public space ... Photo by Mason Dahl via unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/people-sitting-on-green-grass-field-near-green-trees-during-daytime--7AxXbZekDE

This ‘Good news in travel & tour­ism’ wraps up two months of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences: Feb­ru­ary and March 2024. Share ‘Good news’ as you would a pic­nic; as you would a pub­lic space … It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch an item on the shar­ing menu to go straight to it. And don’t for­get to share.) […]

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Supporting ‘Bhutan Believe’: The SUSTOUR Bhutan story so far

and March 25, 2024

Supporting 'Bhutan Believe'

Bhutan believes it is (or could be) the world’s green­est and most respons­ible travel des­tin­a­tion. The SUSTOUR Bhutan pro­ject, fun­ded by the European Uni­on under its SWITCH-Asia pro­gramme, is sup­port­ing Bhutan’s effort to real­ise this goal with a focus on sus­tain­able, inclus­ive, and resi­li­ent tour­ism devel­op­ment.  “The SUSTOUR pro­ject stands as a beacon of relevance […]

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Hi! Have you registered for the Strong Earth Youth Summit 2024 yet?

March 20, 2024

SUNx Malta Strong Earth Youth Summit SEYS 2024 promotion

Young people in travel & tour­ism, and their ment­ors and sup­port­ers, are invited right now to register for the 2024 edi­tion of the Strong Earth Youth Sum­mit (SEYS). The Strong Earth Youth Sum­mit (SEYS) is an annu­al trib­ute to Maurice Strong, cli­mate act­iv­ist for more than 50 years and Sec­ret­ary Gen­er­al of the first “Earth Sum­mit” in […]

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For a sustainable Singapore, Green Destinations’ regional lead picks CRTS

March 18, 2024

For a sustainable Singapore, Green Destinations picks CRTS. Pic by Coleen Rivas (CC0) via Unsplash. "GT" added "GREEN Singapore". https://unsplash.com/photos/people-crossing-bridge-OZ2rS2zCjNo

Singapore’s private-sec­t­or tour­ism stake­hold­ers, from small- and medi­um-sized busi­nesses to glob­al brands, will increas­ingly pur­sue sus­tain­ab­il­ity cer­ti­fic­a­tion over the com­ing years, accord­ing to Kev­in Phun, founder of the Centre for Respons­ible Tour­ism Singa­pore (CRTS). Mr Phun is more bullish about the oppor­tun­it­ies for a sus­tain­able Singa­pore since Susan San­tos de Cárde­n­as, Green Des­tin­a­tions’ South­east Asia […]

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FINAL CALL for entries: Strong Earth Awards 2024, Advancing the Earth Charter

March 14, 2024

Strong Earth Awards 2024

March 31, 2024 is the dead­line for the Strong Earth Awards 2024.  Entrants are invited to sub­mit a thought-pro­­vok­ing 500-word essay on:  “Why is the Earth Charter more rel­ev­ant today than when it was intro­duced by Maurice Strong and Mikhail Gorbachev in 2005; espe­cially for tour­ism in Least Devel­op­ing Coun­tries (LDCs) and Small Island Devel­op­ing States […]

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