“Good Tourism” Partner messages

This is the archive page for all the mes­sages of act­ive “Good Tour­ism” Part­ners. Con­sider “GT” Part­ner­ship for your organ­isa­tion. (Click/touch on a “GT” Part­ner in the list for an archive of their Part­ner messages.)

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10th annual Rwandan cultural festival to coincide with gorilla naming ceremony

August 15, 2022

Rwandan mountain gorilla

The 10th Red Rocks Cul­tur­al Fest­iv­al comes to Musan­ze dis­trict, Rwanda, August 26-Septem­ber 2, 2022, coin­cid­ing with the Kwita Izina gor­illa nam­ing cere­mony on the slopes of Vir­unga Moun­tain. Red Rocks Cul­tur­al Cen­ter will host the event at its premises in Nyak­i­n­ama vil­lage, Musan­ze dis­trict, Rwanda with addi­tion­al cel­eb­ra­tions in nearby Mukung­wa town and Kinigi, […]

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Posted in "GT" news & events, "Good Tourism" Events, "Good Tourism" in Africa, "GT" Destinations & Places, "GT" news from Africa, "GT" Partner messages, “Good Tourism” in Rwanda, Red Rocks Rwanda & Red Rocks Initatives
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Open letter to UNWTO, UNEP, UNFCCC, and Glasgow tourism climate action signatories

August 12, 2022

Glasgow Declaration: Climate Action in Tourism

First pub­lished on “Good Tour­ism” Part­ner SUNx Malta’s web­site, this is an open let­ter from SUNx to the heads of UNWTO, UNEP, UNFCCC, and the sig­nat­or­ies of the Glas­gow Declar­a­tion: Cli­mate Action in Tour­ism: With sup­port from the Gov­ern­ment of Malta, we have set up a glob­al Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) frame­work to sup­port climate […]

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Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news international, "GT" Partner messages, SUNx Malta
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Award-winning Anurak ecotourism experience reopens in southern Thailand

July 26, 2022

Bamboo rafting is an activity available at Anurak Community Lodge in southern Thailand

Anurak Com­munity Lodge, an award-win­n­ing eco­tour­ism exper­i­ence in south­ern Thai­l­and, has fully reopened fol­low­ing two years of COV­­ID-related uncer­tainty.  The 19-unit nature retreat, which won the PATA Grand Award for Sus­tain­ab­il­ity in 2020, and is Trav­elife Gold cer­ti­fied, offi­cially reopens 1 August with room enhance­ments, a refreshed food and bever­age menu – includ­ing south­ern ‘jungle’ […]

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Posted in "GT" Destinations & Places, "Good Tourism" in Asia, "Good Tourism" in Thailand, "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Asia, "GT" Partner messages, Anurak Community Lodge
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Khiri Travel Sri Lanka reaps rewards for designing sustainable experiences

June 27, 2022

Khiri Travel Sri Lanka team explore Sri Lanka while creating sustainable travel experiences

With Sri Lanka open­ing its bor­ders for inter­na­tion­al tour­ists much earli­er than many oth­er Asi­an coun­tries, arrival num­bers have slowly star­ted pick­ing up since August 2021. Espe­cially since quar­ant­ine require­ments lif­ted for fully vac­cin­ated tour­ists from Octo­ber, demand has kept increas­ing.  Khiri Travel Sri Lanka anti­cip­ated increas­ing demand for more sus­tain­able and off-the-beaten-track exper­i­ences and […]

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Posted in "GT" Destinations & Places, "Good Tourism" in Asia, "Good Tourism" in Sri Lanka, "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Asia, "GT" Partner messages, Khiri Travel and Khiri Reach
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All aboard! High-speed train offers compelling new way to travel through Laos

June 22, 2022

High-speed train offers compelling new way to travel through Laos

The romance of train travel is alive and well in Laos. The recently-com­pleted high-speed rail­way that stretches from Vien­tiane, through Laos, and into south­ern China is oper­at­ing ‘full steam’ ahead.  This excit­ing jour­ney takes you through remote vil­lages and into the heart of rur­al Laos, offer­ing up close and per­son­al views of the Laos of today […]

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Posted in "GT" Destinations & Places, "Good Tourism" in Asia, "Good Tourism" in Laos, "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Asia, "GT" Partner messages, Khiri Travel and Khiri Reach
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Enrich yourself and your people with no-nonsense responsible tourism courses

June 15, 2022

Enrich-yourself-with-CRTS-short-online-courses Image by Gerd Altmann via Pixabay

Buzzwords abound in travel & tour­ism.  Singapore’s respons­ible tour­ism pion­eer, Kev­in Phun, excels in unbox­ing the premises and prac­tic­al­it­ies bundled with­in buzzwords … and in demon­strat­ing how they are rel­ev­ant. He has to be good at that in Singa­pore, a pros­per­ous city state whose inbound tour­ism stake­hold­ers might be for­giv­en for think­ing they don’t have […]

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Posted in "Good Tourism" in Asia, "Good Tourism" in Singapore, "GT" Destinations & Places, "GT" news & events, "GT" news international, "GT" Partner messages, Centre for Responsible Tourism Singapore
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