Because: “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” _ Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr Seuss) Published most Sundays, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a new week in travel & tourism … everyone’s business. This week’s good travel […]
Read More Good news in tourism March 1 – 7, 2021
Not to be confused with dogging, WWOOFing is a rural tourism concept that combines voluntourism with organic farming and cultural exchange. In this “Good Tourism” Insight, former WWOOFer and current academic Yana Wengel explains why WWOOF and other alternative forms of tourism could be just what we need. [Thanks to Joseph M Cheer for inviting Dr […]
Read More WWOOF! An alternative tourism in times of turmoil
Tanner C Knorr picks up themes discussed in a webinar by the US-based Center for Responsible Travel and maps them onto five core tenets of the Future of Tourism Coalition. Mr Knorr is the founder of two “Good Tourism” Partners: Second Look Worldwide and Off Season Adventures. This is his fourth “Good Tourism” Insight. “Crisis […]
Read More Climate change, COVID-19, and the need for global systemic change
Travel & tourism’s host communities need alternative visions for development and the power to choose between them, according to lecturer and writer Jim Butcher. It’s his second “Good Tourism” Insight. Ethical tourism is strongly associated with ‘community empowerment’ and ‘local participation’. But how does this relate to the important debates raging about national democracy: populism, […]
Read More Tourism’s democratic deficit
Sonia Beckwith’s tiny Australian ecotourism operation Live Ningaloo faced an existential crisis in 2020, like so many travel & tourism businesses globally did (and still do). In this “Good Tourism” Insight, her second, Ms Beckwith shares the value of caring — a lot! — and how she harnesses and sustains it. When my partner and I founded our micro tourism […]
Read More What to keep, change, do in a crisis (and why we should give a sh*t)
For the sake of growing well-being and sharing the tourism commons with the greater majority, circular economic approaches to travel & tourism must replace neoliberal capitalist growth models. To make that argument, researcher Phoebe Everingham takes a critical theoretical approach. It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight. [Thanks to Joseph M Cheer for inviting Dr Everingham to […]
Read More Travel & tourism’s ‘critical’ rethink and its imperative shift to circular economics
