Really, what’s the difference? ‘Sustainable tourism’ vs ‘regenerative tourism’

September 20, 2022

Sustainable tourism vs regenerative tourism. What's the difference? Terraces by Zetong Li (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/soRA0cugtHI

In des­tin­a­tion and industry prac­tice, what is (are) the difference(s) between ‘sus­tain­able tour­ism’ and ‘regen­er­at­ive tour­ism’? 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 more than 300 words.  My thanks to […]

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10th Rwandan cultural festival opens new community tourism body, promotes gorilla pledge


Red Rocks Cultural Festival 2022 Rwanda

The Red Rocks 10th Anniversary Cul­tur­al Fest­iv­al, August 26-Septem­ber 2, brought organ­isa­tions and com­munit­ies togeth­er to cel­eb­rate and pro­mote Rwandan cul­ture, con­ser­va­tion, and sus­tain­able tour­ism.  As an advoc­ate for cul­ture and com­munity, Red Rocks hos­ted per­formers of all ages from the loc­al area.  Vis­it­ors from near and far enjoyed many tra­di­tion­al dances and music, keep­ing Rwandan […]

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“GT” Insight Bites: Want a career in tourism? Important things you should know

September 6, 2022

what you should know before you start a career in tourism. Image by Harish Sharma (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/spread-of-education-world-map-3245801/

In 2022, what is the most import­ant thing that a young per­son should under­stand before embark­ing upon a career in tour­ism? For this “GT” Insight Bites, your cor­res­pond­ent put the ques­tion above to a range of travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers — “GT” Part­ners, guest authors, and their invit­ees — and invited writ­ten responses of up to 300 words.  My thanks […]

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Vale Mikhail Gorbachev, planetary hero


Mikhail Gorbachev, May 12, 2010 by Veni (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/veni/4602977436/in/photostream/

Mikhail Gorbachev died on August 30th, 2022. The former Pres­id­ent of the Uni­on of Soviet Social­ist Repub­lics (USSR) is best remembered as the man who engin­eered the peace­ful trans­form­a­tion of the USSR and the open­ing of the Ber­lin Wall. Less known is the fact that dur­ing his incred­ible life he col­lab­or­ated closely with Maurice Strong. Togeth­er they […]

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Tourism’s resilience relies on sustainable, regenerative, needs-based models

August 29, 2022

Can tourism be resilient, like ivy. Image by Alicia Mary Smith (CC0) via Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/GHoxPI8qvfs

For tour­ism des­tin­a­tions and ser­vice pro­viders to sur­vive and thrive in the face of cur­rent and loom­ing chal­lenges they must become more resi­li­ent, accord­ing to K Michael Hay­wood. Prof Hay­wood argues that this can be achieved by demo­crat­ising ‘com­munit­ies-as-des­t­in­a­­tions’ and enact­ing prin­ciples of sus­tain­ab­il­ity and regen­er­a­tion. Tourism’s reviv­al may be under­way, though its resi­li­ence is […]

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Good news in travel & tourism July-August 2022

August 26, 2022

Rwandan banana wine banana beer urwagwa by Herve (CC0) via Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/qsQ6r9RycBY

“Good news in travel & tour­ism” wraps up two months of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences. Share it as you would urwag­wa (Rwandan banana beer / 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” Insight Inter­view Good news […]

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