Oh, Canada: Reconciliation via Indigenous storytelling, dignity, and ‘dark tourism’

and January 8, 2024
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Can 'dark tourism' help Canada reconcile its past and present? Photo by Taylor Burke: Cedar Lake Ranch, Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC) Manitoba.

Can tour­ism — ‘dark tour­ism’ — and the storytelling that it facil­it­ates help Canada and Cana­dians recon­cile their past and look for­ward to a bright­er, more united future? Kel­ley A McClinchey and Frédéric Dimanche explore these themes in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] A rev­el­a­tion of truth For more than 150 years, Canada’s Indigenous […]

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What are tourism’s biggest challenges & threats over the next five years to 2028?

December 19, 2023
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What are tourism’s biggest challenges & threats over the next five years to 2028? Cobra image by P Schreiner (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/line-cobra-dangerous-reptile-1974382/

Over the next five years, what is the single biggest chal­lenge or threat facing 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 over­come it? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites ques­tion. Your cor­res­pond­ent put the […]

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Revealed for COP 28: Global tourism’s first climate change stocktake report

December 13, 2023

TPCC 'Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake 2023'

The first Tour­ism and Cli­mate Change Stock­take report has been released by the Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) con­cur­rent with the UN COP 28 Cli­mate Con­fer­ence. [Down­load the Stock­take.] Its 24 key find­ings aim to sup­port policy makers and the tour­ism industry to accel­er­ate plan­ning and invest­ment toward low car­bon and cli­mate resi­li­ent glob­al tourism. […]

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Prof Richard Butler on tourism’s challenges and academia’s inadequacies

December 12, 2023

Professor Richard Butler on tourism’s challenges and academia’s inadequacies ... "[Don't] let wishful thinking take precedence over logic"

As most travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers rush towards an uncer­tain future filled with very real chal­lenges, Richard But­ler wor­ries that aca­demia is los­ing itself down ideo­lo­gic­al alley­ways and crit­ic­al cul-de-sacs. The cre­at­or of But­ler­’s Tour­ism Area Life Cycle (TALC) mod­el thinks it is import­ant for tour­ism research­ers and edu­cat­ors to check in with real­ity. Prof […]

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Good news in travel & tourism October-November 2023

November 30, 2023

Share 'Good news in travel & tourism October-November 2023' as you would a plate of hummus. Image by Andrea (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/hummus-meal-chickpeas-pasta-seeds-1058000/

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 […]

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It’s time for REAL change: TPCC ‘Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake 2023’

November 30, 2023

TPCC 'Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake 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 […]

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