Corporate social responsibility

Scroll down for “GT” posts tagged with “cor­por­ate social respons­ib­il­ity” (CSR) in travel & tour­ism. Accord­ing to Investo­pe­dia, CSR is a “self-reg­u­lat­ing busi­ness mod­el that helps a com­pany be socially account­able — to itself, its stake­hold­ers, and the pub­lic. By prac­ti­cing cor­por­ate social respons­ib­il­ity, also called cor­por­ate cit­izen­ship, com­pan­ies can be con­scious of the kind of impact they are hav­ing on all aspects of soci­ety, includ­ing eco­nom­ic, social, and environmental.”

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Dare to share, not declare: Travel & tourism and the reality of climate change

February 23, 2020

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Cli­mate change is real. It comes with costs. Cli­mate policy also comes with costs. The trick is to find a sens­ible bal­ance.  So said com­pas­sion­ate ration­al­ist Bjorn Lom­borg in a con­ver­sa­tion with former Deputy PM of Aus­tralia John Ander­son, which was pub­lished Fri­day on You­Tube.  Dr Lom­borg, who is Pres­id­ent of the Copen­ha­gen Con­sensus Center, […]

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Why ‘The “Good Tourism” Blog’ won’t be declaring a climate emergency

January 16, 2020
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The short answer is: It’s not “GT’s” role! At writ­ing, 26 tour­ism organ­isa­tions and five indi­vidu­als had declared a glob­al cli­mate emer­gency on behalf of the multi-tril­lion dol­lar travel & tour­ism industry. Among the sig­nat­or­ies is “GT” Friend Susanne Beck­en who, in her declar­a­tion and plan, quotes Greta Thun­berg: “I don’t want your hope, I […]

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How running water changes lives: Tourism takes a second look in Tanzania

December 9, 2019

Fresh water runs from a newly-installed tap into the cupped hands of a Tanzanian man

Tan­ner C Knorr, Pres­id­ent of “GT” Insight Part­ner Second Look World­wide, takes us to Kakoi vil­lage in Tan­zania — the first bene­fi­ciary of a prag­mat­ic approach to sup­port­ing com­munit­ies that are dir­ectly affected by, or live adja­cent to, tour­ism activ­ity.  When trav­el­ling to devel­op­ing coun­tries, noti­cing dis­crep­an­cies between the areas of tour­ism and those imme­di­ately out­side is […]

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How can travel & tourism protect children from sexual exploitation?

September 24, 2019
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Jod­ie Spen­cer tells us why the travel & tour­ism industry has a cru­cial role to play in pro­tect­ing chil­dren from sexu­al exploit­a­tion, out­lines some of the loc­al and glob­al efforts to do just that, and sug­gests how we can all play our part. Travel & tour­ism brings a great deal to loc­al com­munit­ies. It gen­er­ates 10% […]

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Tourists behaving badly are a threat to tourism & industry is partly to blame

April 11, 2019

"Eat the Guiri" graffito in Palma, Mallorca, Spain. By DustyDingo (CC0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22121064 Guiri (pronounced ˈɡiɾi') is a colloquial Spanish slur used in Spain applied to foreign tourists, particularly from countries in northern Europe or the Anglosphere.

It is not only over­tour­ism, but also the bad beha­viour of even a few tour­ists, that will trig­ger a back­lash against the travel & tour­ism industry. This accord­ing to Freya Hig­­gins-Des­­bio­lles of the Uni­ver­sity of South Aus­tralia writ­ing for The Con­ver­sa­tion. How much is the industry to blame and what can stake­hold­ers do about it?  Japan’s […]

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It’s time to address tourism’s invisible burden

March 21, 2019

To catch a glimpse of Mona Lisa at Musée du Louvre, Paris ... Max Fercondini (CC BY-SA 4.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_petit_crowd_to_see_the_dame.jpg "GT" cropped it.

A free report will be released next week — Des­tin­a­tions at Risk: The Invis­ible Bur­den of Tour­ism — by the Travel Found­a­tion, Cor­nell Uni­ver­sity, and Epler­Wood Inter­na­tion­al. Travel Found­a­tion Chair­man Noel Josephides explains why it was com­mis­sioned in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. Thanks mainly to the phe­nomen­on known as over­tour­ism, the future of our industry has become […]

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