“Good news in travel & tourism” wraps up a month of “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and experiences. Share it as you would a cream tea. It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch a menu item to go straight to it.) “Good Tourism” Insights Good news from friends How “GT” enables diversity of thought Friends indeed “GT” […]
Read More Good news in travel & tourism March 2022
Anyone seeking new territory to explore, send guests to, or expand into should heed the community’s attitudes to visitors and its expectations of inbound travel & tourism. As part of his postgraduate studies, Saverio Francesco Bertolucci undertook research in the remote Faroe Islands to find out what locals think about tourists and our industry. It’s […]
Read More How to do tourism responsibly in the Faroe Islands
What challenges face those who would tap Rwanda’s cultural heritage for tourism and development while preserving it for community identity now and in the future? Tour operator Greg Bakunzi shares his thoughts in a “Good Tourism” Insight. [Thanks to “GT” Insight Partner the World Tourism Association for Culture and Heritage (WTACH) for inviting Greg. You too […]
Read More Tapping potential, preserving value: Rwanda’s cultural heritage tourism challenges
The travel & tourism industry can do plenty to support the people of Ukraine in their fight for freedom, such as leverage its communications and payments channels. That would represent a truly ‘ethical tourism’, according to Jim Butcher. It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] I’ve never been a fan of […]
Read More War in Ukraine and the real ‘ethical tourism’
‘Magnificent’, the adjective, should properly be applied to human actions and virtues rather than tangible things, derived as it is from the Latin ‘magnum facere’, which means to do something great. Why is ‘Magnificence’ K Michael Haywood’s “North Star”? And how does he think tourism should navigate towards it? Creating ‘Community Shared Value’ demands that DMOs […]
Read More Towards ‘magnificence’: The aspirational trajectory of value-creating journeys
Many travel & tourism educational institutions could be unintentionally restricting students’ ability to see the ‘big picture’. And some educators may be too tied to their pet perspectives and untested theories to be doing their students any favours. Educator and entrepreneur Lauren Uğur reckons the academy can better reflect reality while equipping students to face it. […]
Read More Masters of complexity & change: What travel & tourism needs from the academy
