What do souvenirs mean to you? What do they say about the people who collect them and the places souvenirs purport to represent; then, now, and in the future? It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight by K Michael Haywood. (You too can write a “GT” Insight.) Souvenirs Having returned from a month in Portugal my head, while […]
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Are you attending World Travel Market 2023 and looking for fun and inspiring new carbon-neutral tours for your increasingly conscientious and climate-aware customers? You’re in luck because the Thai Ecotourism and Adventure Travel Association (TEATA) is rolling out 20 new, inspiring tours designed to reduce carbon emissions and fully offset the rest, in local, Thai […]
Read More Discover new carbon-neutral tours in destinations across Thailand at WTM 2023
Thanks to these two Rwandan talents for contributing to this instalment of “GT” Insight Bites: Leonard, who demonstrated his art in real time at the Red Rocks Cultural Festival; Roger, who shared with me his love of birds as we walked through his beautiful village. You too can contribute.
Read More “GT” Insight Bites: On empowerment, promotion, and the power of expression
For some, excessive work-related travel disrupts lives at home. For digital nomads, work makes itinerant lifestyles possible. Digital nomads may be an attractive long-stay visitor segment for some destinations to target. But they won’t stay very long if they don’t like the place. What makes destinations attractive to digital nomads? Ron Davidson and Ed Jackiewicz […]
Read More On ‘permanent vacation’: Why digital nomads feel at ‘home’ in Bend, Oregon
What is ‘mass tourism’? How do we think about it and talk about it? Do we consider all of its contexts, costs, and benefits? Does mass tourism contribute to good lives? Or do ‘the masses’ only represent threat? Does leisure travel for the many have its place in a ‘green’ future for us all? Or […]
Read More What is ‘mass tourism’? And what’s the problem?
Write no more than 300 words on a travel & tourism topic that is important to you. This is an open invitation to travel & tourism stakeholders to contribute a “GT” Insight Bite. Simply contact “GT”. Unlike other “Good Tourism” Insight Bites that have deadlines and are based on specific questions or hypotheticals, this invitation is ongoing and […]
Read More “GT” Insight Bites: On enrichment, repatriation, the double-edged blade, and war
