28 search results found for: "storytelling"

Good news in tourism January 12 – 18, 2020

January 19, 2020

Tenby Harbour, Pembrokeshire, Wales by Richardjo53 (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/richardjo53/7515932720/in/photostream/

…as one to pro­mote Indi­gen­ous storytelling. Mr Kool­matrie is seek­ing fund­ing from state and fed­er­al gov­ern­ments to set up audio-trails around the Fleur­ieu Pen­in­sula. He will then set his sites…

Read More Good news in tourism January 12 – 18, 2020

Homeless Dubliners to give tours with a difference as tourism booms


Featured image: Patrick McEvoy, Eddie Dooner, and Ronya Arya Phoenix, are training up to become tour guides with My Streets Ireland , a social enterprise. By Emma Batha, Thomson Reuters Foundation. "GT" cropped it.

…lit­er­acy course and joined a bas­ket­ball team. He says My Streets’ three-month train­ing pro­gramme — which includes les­sons in storytelling, per­form­ance and cre­at­ive writ­ing — has giv­en him “an oppor­tun­ity to…

Read More Homeless Dubliners to give tours with a difference as tourism booms

What do non-fungible tokens, natural habitats, & tourism experiences have in common?

and May 10, 2022

What do non-fungible tokens, natural habitats, & tourism experiences have in common? Image by Ifatahmad (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/fantasy-lake-sunset-sky-7022197/

…by co-author Richard Powazyn­ski, has taken an altern­at­ive, cre­at­ive approach to the poten­tial of NFTs.  Through rich storytelling and the cre­ation of 10,000 Wood­ies char­ac­ters, each a unique NFT, the project…

Read More What do non-fungible tokens, natural habitats, & tourism experiences have in common?

“GT” Insight Bites: Diverse perspectives on visitor dispersion

May 31, 2022

Visitor dispersion. Can it be managed? Or will visitors simply go where the winds blows, like dandelion seeds? Image by akirEVarga (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/dandelion-seeds-flower-nature-5302188/

…(DMDCs).  DMDCs are smart, eco-friendly, mul­tipur­pose, and multi-branded tour­ism hubs offer­ing a vari­ety of mod­u­lar fea­tures, includ­ing inform­a­tion, inter­pret­a­tion, com­mu­nic­a­tion, pro­mo­tion, recre­ation, storytelling, as well as edu­ca­tion, train­ing, and skills…

Read More “GT” Insight Bites: Diverse perspectives on visitor dispersion

To grow, or not to grow? A modern hero’s soliloquy

July 19, 2022

To grow or not to grow? Image by Lothar Dieterich (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/boy-batman-superhero-photomontage-4397427/

…tour­ist exper­i­ences, storytelling, inter­pret­a­tion, and their edu­ca­tion­al aspects.  She is a Glob­al Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Coun­cil mem­ber, a Trans­form­a­tion­al Travel Coun­cil Her­ald, a Plan­et Hap­pi­ness Ambas­sad­or, a Future of Tour­ism Coalition…

Read More To grow, or not to grow? A modern hero’s soliloquy

Greg Bakunzi: From Rwandan refugee to founding force


Greg Bakunzi and Red Rocks Rwanda

…unlike any oth­er. Indeed Red Rocks gets a men­tion: “[…] an amen­ity-rich, non­profit hostel, strives to bridge the gap between loc­als and vis­it­ors through storytelling, banana-beer mak­ing, and Rwandan dance.”…

Read More Greg Bakunzi: From Rwandan refugee to founding force