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Butler asks: How do we solve one of the great conundrums of ‘sustainable’ tourism?

February 24, 2025

Richard Butler asks: How do we solve one of the great conundrums of ‘sustainable’ tourism? Pic by Michael Schwarzenberger (CC0) via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/turbine-aircraft-motor-rotor-590354/

“Inter­est­ing range of views”, Richard But­ler (of Tour­ism Area Life Cycle mod­el fame) writes in the com­ments sec­tion of the “GT” Insight Bites on oppor­tun­it­ies and threats to tour­ism in 2025.  “How do we square the first response re air travel and the second and fourth pos­it­ive responses about tour­ism in [South­east] Asia where many of the […]

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Supporting ‘Bhutan Believe’: The SUSTOUR Bhutan story so far

and March 25, 2024

Supporting 'Bhutan Believe'

Bhutan believes it is (or could be) the world’s green­est and most respons­ible travel des­tin­a­tion. The SUSTOUR Bhutan pro­ject, fun­ded by the European Uni­on under its SWITCH-Asia pro­gramme, is sup­port­ing Bhutan’s effort to real­ise this goal with a focus on sus­tain­able, inclus­ive, and resi­li­ent tour­ism devel­op­ment.  “The SUSTOUR pro­ject stands as a beacon of relevance […]

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Discover new carbon-neutral tours in destinations across Thailand at WTM 2023

October 26, 2023

Are you attending World Travel Market 2023 and looking for fun and inspiring new carbon-neutral tours for your increasingly conscientious and climate-aware customers? Meet the Thai Ecotourism and Adventure Travel Association (TEATA) at World Travel Market 2023

Are you attend­ing World Travel Mar­ket 2023 and look­ing for fun and inspir­ing new car­­bon-neut­ral tours for your increas­ingly con­scien­tious and cli­mate-aware cus­tom­ers? You’re in luck because the Thai Eco­tour­ism and Adven­ture Travel Asso­ci­ation (TEATA) is rolling out 20 new, inspir­ing tours designed to reduce car­bon emis­sions and fully off­set the rest, in loc­al, Thai […]

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On aviation emissions & financial risk: Tourism Panel on Climate Change (TPCC) publishes first Horizon Papers

November 21, 2022

On aviation emissions & financial risk: Tourism Panel on Climate Change (TPCC) publishes first Horizon Papers

The Tour­ism Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (TPCC) has pub­lished its first ‘Hori­zon Papers’; one on the top­ic of redu­cing aviation’s green­house gas emis­sions (mit­ig­a­tion), anoth­er on the fin­an­cial resi­li­ence of tour­ism organ­isa­tions affected by cli­mate change (adapt­a­tion). TPCC’s Hori­zon Papers are lead­ing-edge think pieces to stim­u­late crit­ic­al exchanges at the inter­sec­tion of cli­mate change and […]

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Why travel & tourism is wrong to embrace net zero as its climate change response

January 4, 2022
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Under net zero orthodoxy, will air travel become an elitist activity only ever undertaken by the very wealthy? Image by VOO QQQ (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/RSYBi_1fhfMUnder net zero orthodoxy, will air travel become an elitist activity only ever undertaken by the very wealthy? Image by VOO QQQ (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/RSYBi_1fhfM

Sens­ible and rig­or­ous envir­on­ment­al­ism in travel & tour­ism is desir­able, accord­ing to Ken Scott. How­ever, the pre­ma­ture pur­suit of net zero when the most prom­ising tech­no­lo­gies aren’t ready is an unne­ces­sary act of self harm for the industry, he argues.  It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] I con­sider myself a […]

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CODE RED: SUNx’ 7‑point climate action plan for tourism is more ambitious than the Glasgow Declaration

and November 26, 2021
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Climate Friendly Travel; SUNx' Code Red Plan for our Kids

At SUNx Malta we have a clear view of the path for­ward for our sec­tor to respond to the “code red” cli­mate crisis iden­ti­fied by UN Sec­ret­ary Gen­er­al António Guterres. It’s more ambi­tious than the heav­ily mar­keted Glas­gow Declar­a­tion on Cli­mate Action in Tour­ism, spe­cific­ally in terms of earli­er deliv­ery dates, cov­er­age of all greenhouse […]

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