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New European sales & marketing group targets travel & tourism entities worldwide ahead of post-COVID vaccine travel boom. The Worldwide Travel Alliance (WTA) has been launched to provide sales, marketing, representation and PR services to global travel brands seeking European customers. The Alliance consists of six leading sales and marketing experts based in the UK, […]
Read More Worldwide Travel Alliance announced
Much has been written about including host communities in destination management and tourism development decision-making, but how would one go about measuring contentment, well-being, or even happiness, on an ongoing basis? In this “Good Tourism” Insight, Paul Rogers of “GT” Insight Partner Planet Happiness presents a solution. Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 global […]
Read More Why build well-being into destination resilience and tourism recovery?
Introductory note by Hollis Burbank-Hammarlund, Work for Wild Life International: The concept of ‘essential workers’ has been front and centre since the COVID-19 virus struck our world earlier this year. Doctors, nurses, paramedics, as well as teachers, grocery store workers, transportation staff and so many others have been working tirelessly to support essential human needs […]
Read More Mahouts matter: The Elephant Conservation Center’s essential workers
Tanner C Knorr of Second Look Worldwide talks with Iain Patton of Uganda Partnership (UP!) about transformational tours. Tanner: Tell us about Uganda Partnership. Iain: Uganda Partnership is a win-win approach to travelling off the beaten track in Africa and funding business solutions to the poverty in the communities we meet. At Uganda Partnership, or UP! for […]
Read More Wake UP! to the transformative power of partnership & enterprise in Uganda
Through the COVID-19 pandemic and tourism crisis, hopes rest on contingency “plan B” to sustain the retired logging elephants of Green Hill Valley, Myanmar and the community of people who love them. Hollis Burbank-Hammarlund of Work for Wild Life International knows them well, having led elephant healthcare and welfare workshops at the camp in 2018 and […]
Read More Tourism in crisis: A Myanmar elephant camp & community pivot to plan B
Press release from “Good Tourism” Insight Partner the World Tourism Association for Culture & Heritage (WTACH): Two global tourism associations are joining forces to dovetail key objectives in their fields of cultural heritage protection and vocational training. A new partnership agreement between the World Tourism Association for Culture & Heritage (WTACH) and the World Association […]
Read More Associations to cooperate in cultural heritage preservation, tourism training