Wild urban spaces: Rethinking ecotourism as a mass tourism product

July 15, 2021

'Urban Jungle' by Pelle Sten (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pellesten/5655438695

What if the ‘mass’ travel & tour­ism activ­it­ies of cit­ies and cit­izens were ‘sus­tain­able’? Could any of it be coun­ted as ‘eco­tour­ism’? Sudip­ta K Sarkar explores these ques­tions in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [Thanks to Jim Butcher for invit­ing Dr Sarkar to write a “GT” Insight.] After more than a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]

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Save to sustain: Frugal innovation & traditional knowledge in circular tourism

July 13, 2021

Island. By Tomas Anunziata (CC0) via Pexels. https://www.pexels.com/photo/island-with-floating-boat-from-drone-3876404/ Vine. By gyromatical (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/vine-frame-border-leaves-wreath-6184947/ Family. By Clker-Free-Vector-Images (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/vectors/family-parents-kids-children-young-43873/

Angelo Sciacca was the first guest author to intro­duce the concept of the cir­cu­lar eco­nomy to this web­site when he argued for its poten­tial to make small island des­tin­a­tions more resi­li­ent and less depend­ent on travel & tour­ism. In this, his third “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Mr Sciacca adds frugal innov­a­tion and tra­di­tion­al know­ledge to his […]

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Is agritourism a more eco-friendly & gender-equitable form of tourism?

July 8, 2021
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Would you pay more for cher­ries you picked your­self? Respond­ents in an agri­t­our­ism study by Erdogan Koc said they would. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, his second, Prof Koc sum­mar­ises the case for agri­t­our­ism and its poten­tial bene­fits for the envir­on­ment and women … and cherry grow­ers. In par­al­lel with its fast growth over the […]

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Where next for wildlife conservation, ecotourism, & community well-being?

July 6, 2021

Tim the tusker. (c) Beth Allgood

In many places, improved rela­tion­ships between tour­ism oper­a­tions, wild­life, and hab­it­ats were start­ing to deliv­er more sus­tain­able out­comes, includ­ing the par­ti­cip­a­tion of loc­al people. Then COVID-19 …  “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner Plan­et Hap­pi­ness invited con­ser­va­tion and com­munity devel­op­ment expert Beth All­good to share her thoughts in this exclus­ive “GT” Insight. See­ing wild­life in their nat­ive habitat […]

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Good news in tourism June 2021

July 2, 2021

Walpole Inlet, Western Australia. Photo by David Gillbanks (CC by 4.0).

“Good news in tour­ism” wraps up a month of “Good Tour­ism” news and con­tent. It’s “GT”. And go!(Click/touch a menu item to go straight to it.) “GT” Travel “GT” Insights Good news from friends Friends indeed Keep up with “GT” If you like “GT” and you don’t want to miss a thing, sub­scribe to “GT’s” weekly e‑news: […]

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For the better: Racial diversity, equity, & inclusion in USA tourism

July 1, 2021

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Is the United States’ travel & tour­ism industry based on white priv­ilege and Black exclu­sion? Stephanie M Jones thinks so. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Ms Jones explains why she reck­ons a per­man­ent budget item for racial diversity, equity, and inclu­sion would make for bet­ter tour­ism. What’s good about tour­ism?  The people who make it […]

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