A climate-conscious reading of ‘The New York Times’ list of ‘52 Places To Go in 2024’

January 30, 2024

Herb Hiller offers a "climate-conscious" reading of 'The New York Times' list of '52 Places to Go in 2024. This is a screen snip of a cover page of the online article. "GT" added "CLIMATE conscious?"

Cli­mate action advoc­ate Herb Hiller offers a cli­mate-con­­s­cious read­ing of The New York Times’ list of ‘52 Places to Go in 2024’.  It is his second “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] People love to travel but keep get­ting shoved around. We live in an epoch of cata­stroph­ic glob­al warm­ing, which fre­quently forces us […]

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Prof Michael Hall on inspirations, fears, and tourism studies’ legitimacy problem

January 25, 2024

Prof Michael Hall on inspirations, fears, and tourism studies’ legitimacy problem. He reckons there's "probably less genuine debate than ever before" in tourism studies.

There is much to fear about the future of travel, accord­ing to Michael Hall, includ­ing the risks that attend its growth, and the rise of intol­er­ance. He also wor­ries about a lack of “genu­ine debate” in tour­ism stud­ies.  Pro­fess­or Hall par­ti­cip­ated in a Tourism’s Hori­zon Inter­view. For this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Jim Butcher sum­mar­ises the highlights. […]

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Tourism & the climate crisis: New TPCC Horizon Papers on the implications of ‘Doughnut Economics’ & aviation’s inadequate climate change policies

January 24, 2024

New TPCC Horizon Papers on tourism and the climate crisis. Background image by Pete Linforth (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/sunset-sea-horizon-sun-sky-ocean-298850/

Fol­low­ing its recent Tour­ism and Cli­mate Change Stock­take 2023 in Decem­ber, the Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) has pub­lished two new ‘Hori­zon Papers’: The TPCC Exec­ut­ive Board issued the fol­low­ing state­ment: “Our recent Stock­take of the tour­ism sec­tor, by more than 60 lead­ing tour­ism and cli­mate aca­dem­ic and industry experts, made it clear that […]

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How to implement sustainable food systems in Southeast Asian hospitality

January 23, 2024

How to implement sustainable food systems in Southeast Asian hospitality. Spoons students.

Nguyễn Thị Thu Thảo sum­mar­ises the case stud­ies shared and les­sons learned at a recent event about sus­tain­able food sys­tems organ­ised by the Asso­ci­ation of South­east Asi­an Social Enter­prises for Train­ing in Hos­pit­al­ity & Cater­ing (ASSET‑H&C). ASSET‑H&C is “GT” Insight Part­ner. [You too can write a “Good Tour­ism” Insight.] Where to start? Food waste, if it were a […]

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CABI Tourism Cases: Animals and tourism

January 17, 2024

CABI Tourism Cases: Animals and tourism. Image by vkhima (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/dog-travel-india-trip-heritage-4111651/

CABI Tour­ism Cases, a “Good Tour­ism” Part­ner, pub­lishes peer-reviewed case stud­ies on travel & tourism’s inter­ac­tions with the world from just about every angle … includ­ing (non-human) anim­als and tour­ism.  This is the first in a new series of posts in which CABI shares brief sum­mar­ies of its most recent tour­ism-related case stud­ies and books […]

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In 2024, what are the best opportunities for tourism over the next five years?

January 16, 2024

Travel & tourism's best opportunities over the next five years to 2029. Rainbow image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/vectors/rainbow-painted-fortune-cartoon-307622/

Over the next five years, what is the best oppor­tun­ity for travel & tour­ism where you work, or that you have iden­ti­fied through your research and study? And what are the key strategies that your organ­isa­tion, des­tin­a­tion, or the industry at large should employ to take advant­age of that oppor­tun­ity? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites ques­tion. Your correspondent […]

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