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There’s a lot of good going on behind the leafy green exterior of one of the world’s best hotels. And much of it is “rather easy”. Talk is cheap. Christian de Boer is tired of the hypocrisy that runs rampant in the travel & tourism industry, such as “the B Corps that can’t wait to give […]
Read More Inclusions: How a little place near Angkor became one of the world’s best hotels
CABI Tourism Cases presents successes, potentials, and challenges of community-based tourism and hospitality for urban and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa. The tourism industry has become one of the key socio-economic sectors of sub-Saharan Africa. In the last few decades, the tourism industry in most sub-Saharan African countries has surpassed most other economic sectors in terms of generating business opportunities, foreign exchange earnings, and employment prospects.
Read More Community-based tourism for urban & rural development in sub-Saharan Africa
The climate crisis is most challenging and immediate for small island developing states, which have contributed the least to the problem but are the most exposed to its consequences. This is according to Geoffrey Lipman, President of SUNx Malta, who keynoted a session on climate change and tourism at the United Nations’ Small Island Developing States […]
Read More Tourism climate action now for small island developing states: SUNx Malta
SUNx Malta and its Uganda Chapter are highlighting the imperative for climate action in tourism, particularly the need to adapt to intensifying weather extremes, at the Pearl of Africa Tourism Expo (POATE) 2024 taking place in Kampala, Uganda. Find SUNx at POATE, Maleng Travel Stand T9 Munyonyo Convention Centre. 100 climate-friendly Ugandan tourism stakeholders Uganda has […]
Read More SUNx, CFT Uganda Chapter urge tourism climate action and adaptation in Kampala
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, […]
Read More Venice ‘bookable’: Italians lose freedom of movement
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.) […]
Read More Good news in travel & tourism February-March 2024