This ‘Good news in travel & tourism’ wraps up two months of “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and experiences. Share it as you would hummus … It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch an item on the sharing menu to go straight to it. And don’t forget to share.) “Good Tourism” doesn’t judge. “GT” publishes. Did you ever want […]
Read More Good news in travel & tourism October-November 2023
November 30, 2023: “The time for real change is now,” according to the TPCC (Tourism Panel on Climate Change). The TPCC will launch its Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake 2023 on December 11 during a global online event at 0900 GMT/UTC, which will be repeated at 1700 for travel & tourism stakeholders around the world. This first sectoral Stocktake has […]
Read More It’s time for REAL change: TPCC ‘Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake 2023’
If one can put romantic notions of ‘the good old days’ aside, then one must acknowledge that travel was then, and is now, an elitist pursuit for those with the luxuries of cash, time, and/or freedom. Tourism is expensive. Our industry has to change, according to Duncan M Simpson. But how?
Read More Cash, time, or freedom: Travel & tourism is expensive
At Red Rocks Initiative for Sustainable Development in Rwanda we are always open to new partnerships. We recognise that good partners helped us take our very first steps. And good partners have helped us get to where we are now. They, and new partners, will be valued stakeholders in our ongoing journey. More than stakeholders, […]
Read More Partnerships: Good partners are like family at Red Rocks Initiatives Rwanda
Michele Sambaldi stresses the need to keep one’s promises in order to succeed in hospitality and tourism. He also notes the contradictions inherent in discussions around overtourism, sustainability, infrastructure, and development. Mr Sambaldi participated in a Tourism’s Horizon Interview. For this “Good Tourism” Insight, the interviewer Saverio Francesco Bertolucci summarises the highlights. [The full transcripts of the Tourism’s […]
Read More Michele Sambaldi on technology, overtourism, sustainability, & connectivity
Greg Richards thinks more of us should lift our gaze from our narrow academic, business, and local concerns. We should scan the horizons of what we (think we) know, and try harder to understand the primordial instinct we have to travel and the human incentives that drive the tourism industry. Professor Richards is the subject […]
Read More Prof Greg Richards on academic silos, localism, overtourism, and modernity
