“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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Bali is back, and so is the rest of wild Indonesia

June 13, 2022

Orangutans, Kalimantan, Indonesia

Since the long-awaited — but then very sud­den — eas­ing of travel restric­tions for travel into Indone­sia last March, Bali has seen a very quick return of trav­el­lers.  Along Bali’s south­w­est coast one will once again find the typ­ic­al beach- and Bintang-attrac­ted vis­it­or.  Beach­front hotels and beach clubs are exper­i­en­cing a book­ings rush from both domest­ic and for­eign travellers […]

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Posted in "GT" Destinations & Places, "Good Tourism" in Asia, "Good Tourism" in Indonesia, "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Asia, "GT" Partner messages, Khiri Travel and Khiri Reach
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Back to the future: A sustainability plan for our kids

and June 6, 2022

Back to the future: A sustainability plan for our kids was led and then inspired by Maurice Strong whose legacy continues through the SUNx Strong Universal Network

On the 50th Anniversary of the Stock­holm Earth Sum­mit, and the 30th Anniversary of the Rio Earth Sum­mit — both of which were led by my friend Maurice Strong, the inspir­a­tion for SUNx Malta (Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work) — I gave a key­note at a Stock­holm event reflect­ing on the dom­in­ant role Maurice played in cre­at­ing today’s United Nations-led climate […]

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A gorilla-sized opportunity to join Rwanda’s Red Rocks Cultural Festival

and April 4, 2022

Red Rocks Cultural Festival Rwanda red sarong man dancing

Cul­min­at­ing in Kwita Izina — the Gor­illa Nam­ing Cere­mony — and a night of music and dan­cing, the Red Rocks Cul­tur­al Fest­iv­al is an annu­al event in Rwanda.  In 2022 the 10th instal­ment of the vibrant Fest­iv­al will take place August 26 to Septem­ber 2 at Nyak­i­n­ama vil­lage in Rwanda’s Musan­ze dis­trict. I invite you to join and/or sponsor […]

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Posted in "Good Tourism" Events, "Good Tourism" in Africa, "GT" Destinations & Places, "GT" news & events, "GT" news from Africa, "GT" Partner messages, “Good Tourism” in Rwanda, Red Rocks Rwanda & Red Rocks Initatives
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Hello 2022: Hello Code Red, Climate Friendly Travel

and January 7, 2022

Hello 2022 and Code Red, Climate Friendly Travel

Good­bye 2021 Des­pite the per­man­ent drama of an intensi­fy­ing pan­dem­ic, 2021 also under­scored the mag­nitude of our creep­ing, exist­en­tial glob­al cli­mate crisis.  Weath­er extremes decim­ated com­munit­ies on all con­tin­ents: Crazy floods in Europe and Canada; Massive forest fires in the US and Aus­tralia; Droughts in Africa; Typhoons in the Pacific and the Atlantic; and growing […]

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Posted in "GT" news & events, "GT" news international, "GT" Partner messages, SUNx Malta
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Elephants, otters return to Cardamom Tented Camp’s conservation area in Cambodia

December 7, 2021

Cardamom Tented Camp ecolodge in Cambodia reports success in nature conservation with otters and elephants coming back to its conservation area.

Car­damom Ten­ted Camp in Cam­bod­ia has wit­nessed the return of a small herd of ele­phants to its con­ser­va­tion area, after an absence of five years. A large group of smooth-coated otters are back too. Forest rangers dis­covered and pho­to­graphed ele­phant foot­prints and drop­pings inside the 18,000-hectare forest con­ces­sion, which the camp pro­tects, with help from Wildlife […]

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Posted in "GT" news & events, "Good Tourism" in Asia, "Good Tourism" in Cambodia, "GT" Destinations & Places, "GT" news from Asia, "GT" Partner messages, Cardamom Tented Camp
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CODE RED: SUNx’ 7‑point climate action plan for tourism is more ambitious than the Glasgow Declaration

and November 26, 2021
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Climate Friendly Travel; SUNx' Code Red Plan for our Kids

At SUNx Malta we have a clear view of the path for­ward for our sec­tor to respond to the “code red” cli­mate crisis iden­ti­fied by UN Sec­ret­ary Gen­er­al António Guterres. It’s more ambi­tious than the heav­ily mar­keted Glas­gow Declar­a­tion on Cli­mate Action in Tour­ism, spe­cific­ally in terms of earli­er deliv­ery dates, cov­er­age of all greenhouse […]

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