No invitation required: Hedonic sustainability & meaningful tourism

June 28, 2022
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Is this hedonic sustainability and meaningful tourism By Karsten Würth (CC0) via Unsplash.

What is ‘hedon­ic sus­tain­ab­il­ity’ and ‘mean­ing­ful tour­ism’? Wolfgang Georg Arlt intro­duces and describes the terms in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, which is a response to a “GT” Insight by his friend Thomas Bauer. [Thanks to Dr Bauer for invit­ing Dr Arlt to write a “GT” Insight. And thanks to both of them for mod­el­ling the spir­it of “GT”, […]

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Khiri Travel Sri Lanka reaps rewards for designing sustainable experiences

June 27, 2022

Khiri Travel Sri Lanka team explore Sri Lanka while creating sustainable travel experiences

With Sri Lanka open­ing its bor­ders for inter­na­tion­al tour­ists much earli­er than many oth­er Asi­an coun­tries, arrival num­bers have slowly star­ted pick­ing up since August 2021. Espe­cially since quar­ant­ine require­ments lif­ted for fully vac­cin­ated tour­ists from Octo­ber, demand has kept increas­ing.  Khiri Travel Sri Lanka anti­cip­ated increas­ing demand for more sus­tain­able and off-the-beaten-track exper­i­ences and […]

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All aboard! High-speed train offers compelling new way to travel through Laos

June 22, 2022

High-speed train offers compelling new way to travel through Laos

The romance of train travel is alive and well in Laos. The recently-com­pleted high-speed rail­way that stretches from Vien­tiane, through Laos, and into south­ern China is oper­at­ing ‘full steam’ ahead.  This excit­ing jour­ney takes you through remote vil­lages and into the heart of rur­al Laos, offer­ing up close and per­son­al views of the Laos of today […]

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“GT” Insight Bites: Diverse perspectives on economic degrowth and tourism

June 21, 2022

Tourism and economic degrowth. Is the only sustainable growth degrowth? Stencil wall by kamiel79 (CC0) and question mark overlay by kropekk_pl (CC0) both via Pixabay.

Tour­ism in the post-pan­­dem­ic ‘new nor­mal’ should be informed by eco­nom­ic degrowth, say some tour­ism aca­dem­ics and industry com­ment­at­ors who believe we can and should con­sume — and travel — less. If you are an aca­dem­ic or com­ment­at­or, how would you sum­mar­ise your views on degrowth for a gen­er­al industry audi­ence? If you are a travel & tour­ism practitioner, […]

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Revitalise: Empowering inspired hospitality

June 16, 2022

Revitalise: Empowering inspired hospitality. Refreshing drink by Photo Mix via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/drink-glass-lime-mint-cold-fresh-1532300/

Hos­pit­al­ity needs to be revered and revital­ised if travel & tour­ism is to become a con­struct­ive and trans­form­at­ive force for good, accord­ing to K Michael Hay­wood.  It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] Hos­pit­al­ity demon­strates trans­form­at­ive power when people embrace the oth­er and con­trib­ute to the over­all well-being of com­munit­ies, citizens, […]

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Enrich yourself and your people with no-nonsense responsible tourism courses

June 15, 2022

Enrich-yourself-with-CRTS-short-online-courses Image by Gerd Altmann via Pixabay

Buzzwords abound in travel & tour­ism.  Singapore’s respons­ible tour­ism pion­eer, Kev­in Phun, excels in unbox­ing the premises and prac­tic­al­it­ies bundled with­in buzzwords … and in demon­strat­ing how they are rel­ev­ant. He has to be good at that in Singa­pore, a pros­per­ous city state whose inbound tour­ism stake­hold­ers might be for­giv­en for think­ing they don’t have […]

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