“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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World’s 46 Least Developed Countries to have Strong Climate Friendly Travel Chapters by September: Lipman

March 7, 2023

Strong Climate Friendly Travel Chapters to help world's least developed coutnries (LDCs). Photo by Miguel Bruna via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/@mbrunacr

DOHA, QATAR, MARCH 7, 2023: SUNx Malta will set up Strong Cli­mate Friendly Travel Chapters in all 46 least developed coun­tries (LDCs), plus select small island states. Chapters will work loc­ally to advance SUNx’ ambi­tious and action­able Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) agenda, which is focused on a Par­is 1.5°C tar­get. SUNx co-founder and pres­id­ent Geoffrey […]

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Beyond ‘voluntourism’: Can you help Rwanda with sustainable tourism and community development?

February 23, 2023

Can you help Red Rocks with sustainable tourism and community development in Rwanda?

Drip­ping with sus­tain­able tour­ism and com­munity devel­op­ment poten­tial, the Vol­ca­noes Nation­al Park in north­west­ern Rwanda, along with the Vir­unga Park in the Demo­crat­ic Repub­lic of Congo (DRC) and the Bwindi Park in Uganda, make up the fam­ous Vir­unga Mas­sif whose eight vol­ca­noes are the only hab­it­at in the world for moun­tain gor­il­las. In Rwanda, Volcanoes […]

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Ecotourism experiences refreshed for 2023 at Anurak Community Lodge, Thailand

January 5, 2023

Anurak Trail - Ecotourism experiences refreshed for 2023 at Anurak Community Lodge in Thailand. Image supplied by Anurak.

Lever­aging its stun­ning loc­a­tion at the edge of the biod­iversity hot­spot of Khao Sok Nation­al Park in Thai­l­and, Anurak Com­munity Lodge is offer­ing its nature-lov­ing guests refreshed eco­tour­ism activ­it­ies.  Gen­er­al Man­ager Trav­is Clark reveals what vis­it­ors can look for­ward to in the new year.  As 2022 slips into 2023, down in the south of Thai­l­and, Anurak […]

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Cardamom Tented Camp wins HICAP Sustainable Hotel Award for Climate Action

October 13, 2022

Cardamom Tented Camp wins HICAP Sustainable Hotel Award for Climate Action

Car­damom Ten­ted Camp in Cam­bod­ia has won the 2022 Hotel Invest­ment Con­fer­ence Asia Pacific (HICAP) Sus­tain­able Hotel Award for Cli­mate Action. Apart from cli­mate action, there were awards for build­ing preservation/adaptive reuse, pos­it­ive com­munity impact, and sus­tain­able design. The BHN Group, which runs the HICAP event, announced the win­ners on 12 Octo­ber. Sev­en judges, mostly […]

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World Tourism Day marks launch of Climate Friendly Travel podcast

September 28, 2022

SUNx Malta Climate Friendly Travel Podcast

In cel­eb­ra­tion of World Tour­ism Day and its theme of “Rethink­ing Tour­ism”, SUNx Malta launched a new pod­cast series designed to help tour­ism com­pan­ies and com­munit­ies stay on tar­get for the Par­is 1.5°C lim­it. Announ­cing this on World Tour­ism Day, Septem­ber 27, SUNx Malta Pres­id­ent Pro­fess­or Geof­frey Lip­man said: “Our goal is to encour­age tour­ism stakeholders […]

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10th Rwandan cultural festival opens new community tourism body, promotes gorilla pledge

September 9, 2022

Red Rocks Cultural Festival 2022 Rwanda

The Red Rocks 10th Anniversary Cul­tur­al Fest­iv­al, August 26-Septem­ber 2, brought organ­isa­tions and com­munit­ies togeth­er to cel­eb­rate and pro­mote Rwandan cul­ture, con­ser­va­tion, and sus­tain­able tour­ism.  As an advoc­ate for cul­ture and com­munity, Red Rocks hos­ted per­formers of all ages from the loc­al area.  Vis­it­ors from near and far enjoyed many tra­di­tion­al dances and music, keep­ing Rwandan […]

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