“Good news in travel & tourism” wraps up a month of “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and experiences. Share it as you would a fresh salad. It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch a menu item to go straight to it.) “Good Tourism” is where free thought travels Did you ever want to write a thoughtful piece […]
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Is ‘travel for everyone’ a prerequisite for truly sustainable tourism? Iranian scholar S Fatemeh Mostafavi Shirazi posits the idea in this “Good Tourism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] The positives and negatives of the tourism industry, including how crucial it is (or is not) to economic development, and particularly its contributions to the […]
Read More Does sustainable tourism require ‘travel for everyone’?
Seable is the only multi-award winning tour operator in the United Kingdom to create assisted, active, and tailored holidays for the visually impaired. [This “GT” ‘sponsor message’ was offered free-of-charge to assist Seable in their crowdfunding campaign.] We strive to create accessible holidays that improve independence, inclusion, and wellbeing, offering individual opportunities to increase confidence, […]
Read More Holidays for the visually impaired: Seable runs crowdfunding campaign
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 […]
Read More What are tourism’s biggest challenges & threats over the next five years to 2027?
The Tourism Panel on Climate Change (TPCC) has published its first ‘Horizon Papers’; one on the topic of reducing aviation’s greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation), another on the financial resilience of tourism organisations affected by climate change (adaptation). TPCC’s Horizon Papers are leading-edge think pieces to stimulate critical exchanges at the intersection of climate change and […]
Read More On aviation emissions & financial risk: Tourism Panel on Climate Change (TPCC) publishes first Horizon Papers
NOVEMBER 10 2022, SHARM EL-SHEIKH: The Executive Board of the Tourism Panel on Climate Change (TPCC) presented a ‘Foundation Framework’ today at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh. The Foundation Framework sets out key milestones for the first-of-its-kind initiative. The Tourism Panel on Climate Change represents a new era of global collaboration […]
Read More Unprecedented Tourism Panel on Climate Change unveiled today at COP27
