This ‘Good news in travel & tourism’ wraps up three months of “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and experiences: April, May, and June 2024. Share ‘Good news’ as you would a meal in Seoul, South Korea … It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch an item on the sharing menu to go straight to it. And don’t forget to share.) “Good Tourism” […]
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Delly Chatibura sees a huge opportunity for Botswana to leverage its natural and cultural resources for food security and good food tourism. But conservation, climate, and cultural challenges impede food tourism in Botswana. Food cultures are often integral to tourism, with Bangkok’s street food, New York’s diners, tea in China, and French baguettes being four arbitrary examples. But how many of the world’s tourists are familiar with Botswana’s rich food culture, and the issues attending it?
Read More Conservation, climate, culture challenge food tourism in Botswana
There’s a lot of good going on behind the leafy green exterior of one of the world’s best hotels. And much of it is “rather easy”. Talk is cheap. Christian de Boer is tired of the hypocrisy that runs rampant in the travel & tourism industry, such as “the B Corps that can’t wait to give […]
Read More Inclusions: How a little place near Angkor became one of the world’s best hotels
CABI Tourism Cases presents successes, potentials, and challenges of community-based tourism and hospitality for urban and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa. The tourism industry has become one of the key socio-economic sectors of sub-Saharan Africa. In the last few decades, the tourism industry in most sub-Saharan African countries has surpassed most other economic sectors in terms of generating business opportunities, foreign exchange earnings, and employment prospects.
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Regenerative tourism is great for destinations that choose to focus on it, and for the few who can afford it. But what about the rest of us? It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight by Jim Butcher. ‘Regenerative’ is the latest ethical prefix to accompany ‘tourism’, following a well-worn path from ‘eco’, ‘sustainable’, ‘green’, ‘community’, ‘responsible’ et cetera. […]
Read More Regenerative tourism’s myths and realities
Some “GT” readers are critical of tourism, particularly ‘mass tourism’. Some in the universities see themselves as part of a ‘Critical Tourism Studies’ movement. But what does it mean to be ‘critical’ in relation to modern tourism? It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight Bites question. Your correspondent put the question to the travel & tourism stakeholders in the “GT” […]
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