‘Jouissance’: The pleasure & pain of ‘ethical donor tourism’ in Africa

and January 18, 2022
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Zebra stripes at Dikhololo Game Reserve, Brits, South Africa. Photo by David Clarke (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/sN6d60TySV0

Some of the very wealthy among us love to live large in Africa’s mag­ni­fi­cent land­scape, to observe (and hunt) its icon­ic wild­life. While they are there it is good that they give gen­er­ously to eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, phil­an­throp­ic, and con­ser­va­tion pro­jects, no? Are we miss­ing some­thing? Aca­dem­ics Stasja Koot and Robert Fletch­er think so.  It’s a “Good […]

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Seven ‘deeper leverage points’ for travel & tourism’s effective climate action

and January 11, 2022
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"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." _ Archimedes

Aca­dem­ics Johanna Loehr and Susanne Beck­en offer an exec­ut­ive sum­mary of “Lever­age points to address cli­mate change risk in des­tin­a­tions”; their paper recently pub­lished by Tour­ism Geo­graph­ies. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] The latest sci­ence is clear. Cli­mate action needs to step up drastic­ally.  This also affects tour­ism. As […]

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Hello 2022: Hello Code Red, Climate Friendly Travel

and January 7, 2022

Hello 2022 and Code Red, Climate Friendly Travel

Good­bye 2021 Des­pite the per­man­ent drama of an intensi­fy­ing pan­dem­ic, 2021 also under­scored the mag­nitude of our creep­ing, exist­en­tial glob­al cli­mate crisis.  Weath­er extremes decim­ated com­munit­ies on all con­tin­ents: Crazy floods in Europe and Canada; Massive forest fires in the US and Aus­tralia; Droughts in Africa; Typhoons in the Pacific and the Atlantic; and growing […]

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Why travel & tourism is wrong to embrace net zero as its climate change response

January 4, 2022
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Under net zero orthodoxy, will air travel become an elitist activity only ever undertaken by the very wealthy? Image by VOO QQQ (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/RSYBi_1fhfMUnder net zero orthodoxy, will air travel become an elitist activity only ever undertaken by the very wealthy? Image by VOO QQQ (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/RSYBi_1fhfM

Sens­ible and rig­or­ous envir­on­ment­al­ism in travel & tour­ism is desir­able, accord­ing to Ken Scott. How­ever, the pre­ma­ture pur­suit of net zero when the most prom­ising tech­no­lo­gies aren’t ready is an unne­ces­sary act of self harm for the industry, he argues.  It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] I con­sider myself a […]

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Good news in travel & tourism December 2021

December 23, 2021

“Good news in travel & tourism” wraps up a month of “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, tips, and advice. Share it as you would a stollen. By kakuko (CC0) via Pixabay. httpspixabay.comphotoschrist-stollen-christmas-stollen-1084954

“Good news in travel & tour­ism” wraps up a month of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, tips, and advice. Share it as you would a stollen. It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch a menu item to go straight to it.) “GT” Insights Good news from friends Top five most vis­ited “GT” posts of 2021 (& […]

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Top five most visited “GT” Insights & “GT” Travel Experiences of 2021 (& all time)

December 21, 2021

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Most of the past year — two years — has been ter­ribly tough for many; espe­cially travel & tour­ism people.  I can’t really say much more about it than I said at the cor­res­pond­ing time last year:  Good rid­dance 2021 … 2022 had bet­ter be bet­ter … blah blah … But, as I wrote at the end of 2020, it’s import­ant to […]

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