Empower Rwandan women and youth. Support Red Rocks Cultural Campsite.

April 27, 2023

Red Rocks Cultural Campsit empowers Rwandan women and youth by instilling pride and joy in cultural performance and preservation

Red Rocks Cul­tur­al Camp­site in Rwanda’s Musan­ze dis­trict offers an excel­lent oppor­tun­ity for travel agents and tour oper­at­ors to recom­mend a unique and mean­ing­ful exper­i­ence to their cli­ents. By pro­mot­ing this com­munity-based organ­isa­tion, travel pro­fes­sion­als can help empower Rwandan women and youth through its arts and crafts pro­gramme, while also provid­ing an authen­t­ic cul­tur­al experience […]

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Where is the line between cultural explorer and voyeur? The ‘Batwa Experience’

April 25, 2023

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda, where the Batwa once lived. Image courtesy Nomadic Skies

Where is the line between cul­tur­al explor­a­tion and exploit­at­ive voyeur­ism while trav­el­ling among indi­gen­ous peoples?  In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Gav­in Ander­son explores the danger and prom­ise of travel & tour­is­m’s involve­ment with indi­gen­ous people through the lens of his recent work with the Bat­wa of south­w­est Uganda. I first met the Bat­wa, the indigenous […]

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An exemplar of nature-based and community-based agritourism in Rwanda: Red Rocks Cultural Campsite

April 21, 2023
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Agritourism in Rwanda at Red Rocks Cultural Campsite. Image by Kate Webster at www.travellerkate.com

Agri­t­our­ism show­cases agri­cul­ture, rur­al tra­di­tions, and nat­ur­al resources, provid­ing vis­it­ors with an oppor­tun­ity to exper­i­ence and learn about these ele­ments through tour­ism. The Red Rocks Cul­tur­al Camp­site in Musan­ze, Rwanda is an excep­tion­al mod­el of both nature-based agri­t­our­ism and com­munity-based agri­t­our­ism in Rwanda, show­cas­ing the vital­ity of the Afric­an nation. Sur­roun­ded by stun­ning scenery and […]

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Why travel & tourism content marketing? Efficient and effective if target-oriented

and April 19, 2023

Tourism content marketing hit or miss? Image by 15299 (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/dart-board-game-dartboard-aim-102880/

Travel & tour­ism con­tent mar­ket­ing may be an under­val­ued and poorly used ele­ment in the stra­tegic mar­ket­ing mix; par­tic­u­larly among des­tin­a­tions that want to increase the ‘qual­ity’ and ‘yield’ of their vis­it­ors, and private-sec­t­or stake­hold­ers who claim they don’t have the time or resources for it. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Zohreh Khos­ravi and Dav­id Gillbanks […]

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Earth Day news: TPCC gathering scientific knowledge on tourism and climate change in time for COP28

April 18, 2023

Tourism Panel on Climate Change (TPCC)

A stock­take of tour­ism-related cli­mate sci­ence, indic­at­ors of sec­tor cli­mate risk, and pro­gress on cli­mate action is a key first deliv­er­able for the Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) in 2023.  The TPCC has announced this ahead of Earth Day this Sat­urday, April 22. The first TPCC Stock­take will be the basis for future sci­ence ana­lys­is. Sixty-six […]

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Mass tourism in Venice: Are city officials overreacting?

April 11, 2023

Mass tourism in Venice. Overtourism overreaction? Image by Alex B (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/users/mcsmandalas-1918387/

Tour­ists should be wel­comed and cel­eb­rated but in Venice they are facing rejec­tion and even crim­in­al­isa­tion, accord­ing to long-time Ven­eto res­id­ent Domin­ic Standish. Are city offi­cials over­re­act­ing to legit­im­ate con­cerns about mass tour­ism in Venice? And how might they man­age tour­ism bet­ter? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight ini­ti­ated by Tourism’s Hori­zon, a “GT” Insight Part­ner. [You […]

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