The happiness factor: Social tourism is sustainable tourism

August 6, 2024

Social tourism, social good? Image by Guille Pozzi (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/silhouette-photo-of-woman-and-girl-on-shoreline-y1wVavuxZtE

Can ‘social tour­ism’ — char­ity- and/or tax­pay­er-sup­­por­ted hol­i­days — help alle­vi­ate stress in soci­ety and turn the travel & tour­ism industry’s off-sea­son frowns upside down?  Scott McCabe thinks so.  Pro­fess­or McCabe penned this “Good Tour­ism” Insight at the invit­a­tion of Tourism’s Hori­zon: Travel for the Mil­lions, a “GT” Insight Part­ner. Fam­ily hol­i­days: A fine time … Term-time hol­i­day fines were back in […]

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50 diploma scholarships open to students from SIDS, LDCs

July 31, 2024

2024 Climate Friendly Travel Diploma 50 scholarships for students in SIDS, LDCs and other developing states

Fifty schol­ar­ships are open to stu­dents from Least Developed Coun­tries (LDCs) and Small Island Devel­op­ing States (SIDS), and a few oth­er devel­op­ing coun­tries, for the online Dip­loma in Cli­mate Friendly Travel offered by the Insti­tute of Tour­ism Stud­ies and SUNx Malta. The 2024 CFT Dip­loma starts on Septem­ber 30. Schol­ar­ship applic­a­tions close August 15.  APPLY HERE […]

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Can we manage mass tourism for sustainable, equitable, and progressive outcomes?

July 30, 2024
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If one assumes that mass tour­ism is unavoid­able without an author­it­ari­an crack­down on mobil­ity, what should be done about it? Kev­in Phun sug­gests that in every chal­lenge lies an oppor­tun­ity, and pro­poses how we might man­age mass tour­ism for sus­tain­able, equit­able, and pro­gress­ive out­comes. In less than two hours’ time (as I write this), I will […]

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Should I buy a DSLR camera? Key factors to consider

July 24, 2024

Should I buy a DSLR camera? Photo by Martin Jernberg (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/two-man-on-top-or-rocky-mountain-4RmMPd0QJHk

Should I buy a DSLR cam­era? Or are there bet­ter ways to ful­fill my pho­to­graph­ic needs?  Faced with a con­fus­ing array of cam­era sizes, formats, and tech­no­lo­gies, trav­el­lers, social media influ­en­cers, and the in-house con­tent cre­at­ors of travel & tour­ism organ­isa­tions might well ask those ques­tions.  Lon­don Cam­era Exchange breaks it down for us.  Recently, the question […]

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Beer o’clock ‘keeps the forest standing’ at Cardamom Tented Camp, Cambodia

July 17, 2024

Cardamom Tented Camp in Cambodia has launched its own conservation beer, Cardamom Mountains Steam Beer, with the tagline, “Your Beer Keeps the Forest Standing”.

Car­damom Ten­ted Camp in Cam­bod­ia has launched its own con­ser­va­tion beer with the tagline, “Your Beer Keeps the Forest Stand­ing”. Profits from the Car­damom Moun­tains Steam Beer, now avail­able at the eco­lodge, help fund the con­ser­va­tion work of 16 forest rangers who pro­tect 18,000 hec­tares (180 km²) of sur­round­ing low­land ever­green forest in the Botum […]

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Domestic disasters & destination ‘dupes’: Climate change impels travel closer to home

July 2, 2024
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Domestic disasters & destination ‘dupes’: Climate change impels travel closer to home. Worried about climate change and associated risks to property, American vacationers are growing reluctant to travel far from home. Image by WikiImages (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/hurricane-devastation-charley-63005/ "GT" added the text.

Wor­ried about cli­mate change and asso­ci­ated risks to prop­erty, Amer­ic­an vaca­tion­ers are grow­ing reluct­ant to travel far from home. It’s the third “GT” Insight by Herb Hiller. [You too can write a “Good Tour­ism” Insight.] Cli­mate change at home and away In this epoch of cli­mate change, a fam­ily on Grand Bahama depos­its a Nor­we­gi­an Cruise Line […]

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