Overs & unders: Contrasting destination outcomes during COVID-19

June 29, 2021

The Winnipesaukee River in Laconia, New Hampshire, USA ((CC0) Pixabay) and Stari Most over the Neretva River in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina ((c) Jada Lindblom)

Places that rely on travel & tour­ism are loc­ated all over the world, in nations at dif­fer­ent stages of eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment and often vastly dif­fer­ent pop­u­la­tion sizes. When inter­na­tion­al travel shuts down it is no won­der then that they have dif­fer­ent exper­i­ences. Devel­op­ment spe­cial­ist Jada Lind­blom com­pares two des­tin­a­tions close to her heart in this […]

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A ‘year of hell’, pent-up wanderlust, and the supermarket of beautiful places

June 22, 2021
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Supermarket hell? By Melanie Lim (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/246b6c6IeC0

If sus­tain­ab­il­ity is ever going to be more than fantasy, tour­ists and the tour­ism industry need to treat inter­na­tion­al travel as a priv­ilege and value domest­ic des­tin­a­tions much more highly. This is accord­ing to vet­er­an hos­pit­al­ity, mar­ket­ing, and crisis man­age­ment con­sult­ant Bert van Wal­beek. How­ever, as evid­enced by this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, he’s not counting […]

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Can transformational tourism help solve the post-COVID mental health crisis?

June 17, 2021

Transformation in situ. Preparing to travel. Image by GLady (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/cocoon-butterfly-larva-larvae-209096/

Through­out his­tory our spe­cies has trans­formed where we’ve trav­elled, been trans­formed by travel, and trav­elled to trans­form. There is little doubt that many of us are hap­pi­est when we are on the move. Is tour­ism schol­ar Rohan Bhalla cor­rect in think­ing that our industry could be part of the solu­tion to the world’s men­tal health […]

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“Good Tourism” Partners to jointly support UN SDGs, climate-friendly travel

and June 9, 2021

"GT" Partners Planet Happiness and SUNx sign MOU. Image by GDJ (CC0) via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/vectors/background-abstract-psychedelic-5558927/

New memor­andum of under­stand­ing (MOU) between part­ners of The “Good Tour­ism” Blog signed to mark World Envir­on­ment Day, June 5. On World Envir­on­ment Day, June 5, “GT” Part­ners Plan­et Hap­pi­ness and SUNx signed a MOU related to the United Nations (UN) Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (SDGs) and cli­mate-friendly travel. Accord­ing to a news release, the aim is to […]

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Outrigger goes big on World Oceans Month this June

June 8, 2021

Outrigger collage

Bare­foot lux­ury and cor­al reef con­ser­va­tion meet at Out­rig­ger Resorts. WAIKIKI – In hon­our of World Oceans Month this June, Out­rig­ger Hotels and Resorts is eager to con­tin­ue its sup­port in pro­tect­ing and sus­tain­ing the oceans and the spe­cies that inhab­it them. Mak­ing Big Waves for Glob­al Change Through its OZONE pro­gramme, Out­rig­ger has cham­pioned ocean and cor­al health […]

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Towards a new paradigm for regenerative tourism and just futures

June 8, 2021
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Regeneration. Image by congerdesign (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/plant-sow-grow-growing-trays-4036131/

The COV­­ID-induced travel & tour­ism depres­sion has caused and exacer­bated suf­fer­ing. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, aca­dem­ic Tazim Jamal sum­mar­ises the oppor­tun­it­ies that she sees for ‘heal­ing’, ‘justice’, and ‘equity’ as our industry recov­ers. [Thanks to Joseph M Cheer for invit­ing Dr Jamal to write a “GT” Insight.] Tour­ism is a multi-bil­lion-dol­lar industry. It employs […]

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