Food

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Is agritourism a more eco-friendly & gender-equitable form of tourism?

July 8, 2021
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By Free-Photos (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/cherries-handful-red-ripe-fresh-1082136/

Would you pay more for cher­ries you picked your­self? Respond­ents in an agri­t­our­ism study by Erdogan Koc said they would. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, his second, Prof Koc sum­mar­ises the case for agri­t­our­ism and its poten­tial bene­fits for the envir­on­ment and women … and cherry grow­ers. In par­al­lel with its fast growth over the […]

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Living the good life: Can tourism help save a host community from itself?

April 13, 2021
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Barefoot Bar: Living the good life in the Cook Islands. Image supplied by Ani Thompson

Much has been made about how travel & tour­ism exploits host com­munit­ies. But can our industry pro­act­ively improve loc­als’ health and well-being? Ani Thompson thinks so. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, the hoteli­er shares how she has lever­aged the resources avail­able to her to help tackle the scourge of non­com­mu­nic­able dis­eases in her nat­ive Cook […]

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Save money, satisfy guests, & join the fight against food waste

April 23, 2019
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Featured image: How much food waste in your tourism or hospitality business generating? Image copyright: LightBlue Environmental Consulting

Sus­tain­ab­il­ity advoc­ate and “waste fight­er” Lauren Khar­ouni presents the case against food waste, the busi­ness case for redu­cing it, and simple ways to start. Have you ever taken a closer look at data on glob­al food waste? If not, take a seat, the num­bers are strik­ing. Oth­er­wise, a short remind­er could not hurt. Every year, the UN […]

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Do all-inclusive holidays promote gluttony, obesity?

June 8, 2017
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Do all-you-can-eat all-inclusive holidays promote gluttony, obesity?

The propensity for all-inclus­ive tour­ism pack­ages to lay on all-you-can-eat feasts at every meal may be con­trib­ut­ing to obesity among pop­u­la­tions who can afford such trips, accord­ing to Pro­fess­or Erdogan Koc of Bandirma Onyedi Eylul Uni­ver­sity in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight con­tri­bu­tion.  If Prof Koc’s sus­pi­cions are true, what can the industry real­ist­ic­ally do to […]

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