‘Real-life tourism’: The essence of regenerative tourism

October 19, 2021

Sharing culture. Regenerative 'real-life' tourism at Kohutapu Lodge, NZ.

Bron­wyn Hutchis­on would like to see more examples of regen­er­at­ive tour­ism in prac­tice. In her second “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Ms Hutchis­on sheds light on a fam­ily-run lodge and tour oper­a­tion in New Zea­l­and whose regen­er­at­ive prac­tices, it is claimed, are rooted in Māori beliefs and cus­toms. Regen­er­at­ive tour­ism is evolving as the new catch-cry for […]

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Can tourism destinations-as-communities be better & smarter by design?

October 12, 2021

Can destinations-as-communities be better & smarter by design? Image by Gerd Altmann (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/cyber-artificial-intelligence-brain-4062449/

What does it mean to col­lab­or­at­ively design tour­ism at the com­munity level? And to what end? If it is to strive towards a ‘good’, ‘bet­ter’, ‘smarter’ tour­ism, what does that look like? Retired uni­ver­sity pro­fess­or K Michael Hay­wood shares his vis­ion.  It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [Thanks to Jim Butcher for invit­ing Prof Hay­wood to write a “GT” […]

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Cardamom Tented Camp earns global accolade for its sustainability story

October 6, 2021

Cardamom Tented Camp staff team photo

Car­damom Ten­ted Camp eco­lodge in Cam­bod­ia is one of Green Des­tin­a­tions’ 2021 Top 100 Des­tin­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Stor­ies. The announce­ment was made Octo­ber 5 dur­ing the online annu­al con­fer­ence of Green Des­tin­a­tions, a non-profit organ­isa­tion for sus­tain­able tour­ism based in The Neth­er­lands. The annu­al pro­gramme has been in exist­ence since 2014. Car­damom Ten­ted Camp was chosen by the […]

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Africa must put communities, conservation at the centre of travel & tourism recovery

October 5, 2021

Generations. In "Kargi, a remote nomadic settlement in Kenya". Image by Ian Macharia (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/7k91OUDYAQ0

Pick­ing up on the reports, find­ings, declar­a­tions, and state­ments of organ­isa­tions and opin­ion lead­ers in Africa and around the world, tour­ism schol­ar Edwin Magio calls upon Afric­an travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers to put words into action. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight.  As the Afric­an tour­ism sec­tor pre­pares to recov­er from the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, tour­ism experts […]

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Good news in travel & tourism September 2021

September 30, 2021

Yen ta fo, Bangkok. By Streets of Food (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/5LJqzgAAdeQ

“Good news in travel & tour­ism” wraps up a month of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, tips, and advice. It’s “GT”. And go!(Click/touch a menu item to go straight to it.) “GT” Insights Good news from friends ‘Spammy con­tent’ Friends indeed Keep up with “GT” If you like “GT” and you don’t want to […]

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Atrocity, curiosity, tragedy, travel: Battlefield tourism in the Solomon Islands

September 28, 2021

Kinugawa Maru, Japanese supply vessel wrecked at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Top image by Gilly Tanbose (CC0) via Unsplash. Bottom image by author.

Dark peri­ods of his­tory evoke strong emo­tions, par­tic­u­larly among those with close con­nec­tions to par­ti­cipants. As doc­u­mented by Steph­en Pratt and his col­leagues, cruise tour­ists who chose to join a shore tour of World War II bat­tle­field sites, museums, and memori­als on Guadal­canal did so for a vari­ety of reas­ons and felt a range of […]

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