Cardamom Tented Camp wins HICAP Sustainable Hotel Award for Climate Action

October 13, 2022

Cardamom Tented Camp wins HICAP Sustainable Hotel Award for Climate Action

Car­damom Ten­ted Camp in Cam­bod­ia has won the 2022 Hotel Invest­ment Con­fer­ence Asia Pacific (HICAP) Sus­tain­able Hotel Award for Cli­mate Action. Apart from cli­mate action, there were awards for build­ing preservation/adaptive reuse, pos­it­ive com­munity impact, and sus­tain­able design. The BHN Group, which runs the HICAP event, announced the win­ners on 12 Octo­ber. Sev­en judges, mostly […]

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‘Tourism is built on the backbone of white supremacy’. What do you think?

October 11, 2022
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Is tourism built on white supremacy?

Without offer­ing any des­t­in­a­­tion- or mar­ket-spe­­ci­f­ic con­text, one com­ment­at­or recently asser­ted that tour­ism is “built on the back­bone of white suprem­acy”.  What do you think? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites ques­tion. Your cor­res­pond­ent put the ques­tion to a range of travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers — “GT” Insight authors, “GT” Part­ners, and their invit­ees — and invited emailed writ­ten responses of no […]

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Destination innovation is about more than technology

October 4, 2022

Destination innovation is more than tech. Image by Michal Jarmoluk (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/innovation-business-businessman-561388/

Tech­no­logy alone is unlikely to solve all our prob­lems, or help us achieve all that we wish. This is true for tour­ism des­tin­a­tions as they look to innov­ate out of crisis and into an uncer­tain future. It’s a “GT” Insight by K Michael Hay­wood. [You too can write a “Good Tour­ism” Insight.] The World Tour­ism Innovation […]

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Good news in travel & tourism September 2022

September 30, 2022

Share good news as you would a bottle of something nice. Image by Elle Hughes (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/rYEUdOG2ves

“Good news in travel & tour­ism” wraps up a month of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences. Share it as you would a bottle of wine. It’s “GT”. And go!  (Click/touch a menu item to go straight to it.) “Good Tour­ism” Insights “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites “Good Tour­ism” Travel Exper­i­ences Good news from friendsGlob­al | Africa | Asia […]

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WTACH, Nordic Tourism Collective join forces on culture and heritage

September 29, 2022

WTACH and Nordic Tourism Collective team up

The World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture and Her­it­age (WTACH) has teamed up with the Nor­d­ic Tour­ism Col­lect­ive (NTC) to build mutu­al aware­ness of the unique cul­tur­al and her­it­age assets in the great­er Nor­d­ic and Balt­ic region. WTACH will provide expert­ise and lead dis­cus­sions and train­ing ses­sions on cul­ture and her­it­age tour­ism at NTC work­shops and […]

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World Tourism Day marks launch of Climate Friendly Travel podcast

September 28, 2022

SUNx Malta Climate Friendly Travel Podcast

In cel­eb­ra­tion of World Tour­ism Day and its theme of “Rethink­ing Tour­ism”, SUNx Malta launched a new pod­cast series designed to help tour­ism com­pan­ies and com­munit­ies stay on tar­get for the Par­is 1.5°C lim­it. Announ­cing this on World Tour­ism Day, Septem­ber 27, SUNx Malta Pres­id­ent Pro­fess­or Geof­frey Lip­man said: “Our goal is to encour­age tour­ism stakeholders […]

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