Inclusive tourism

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The Ogan­isa­tion for Eco­nom­ic Co-oper­a­tion and Devel­op­ment (OECD) defines inclus­ive growth as “eco­nom­ic growth that cre­ates oppor­tun­ity for all seg­ments of the pop­u­la­tion and dis­trib­utes the dividends of increased prosper­ity, both in mon­et­ary and non-mon­et­ary terms, fairly across society”.

When referred to by The “Good Tour­ism” Blog, inclus­ive tour­ism means the same as OECD’s defin­i­tion of “inclus­ive growth” as it per­tains to the tour­ism sector.

Else­where the term is often used inter­change­ably with “access­ible tour­ism”, which is con­fus­ing. The term should also not be con­fused with “all-inclus­ive tour­ism”, which relates to the prac­tice of bund­ling all (or most) of what a tour­ist might need for their hol­i­day — their trans­port, accom­mod­a­tion, meals, tick­ets, passes, et cet­era — into a single package.

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“GT” Insight Bites: Diverse perspectives on visitor dispersion

May 31, 2022

Visitor dispersion. Can it be managed? Or will visitors simply go where the winds blows, like dandelion seeds? Image by akirEVarga (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/dandelion-seeds-flower-nature-5302188/

An oft-cited anti­dote to over­tour­ism, and a means to spread the bene­fits of tour­ism more widely, is ‘vis­it­or dis­per­sion’. What are the biggest chal­lenges to encour­aging and incentiv­ising tour­ists to explore more of a des­tin­a­tion? Who or what do you think could con­trib­ute most to effect­ive vis­it­or dis­per­sion? What can an organ­isa­tion like yours do […]

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Towards ‘magnificence’: The aspirational trajectory of value-creating journeys

March 8, 2022

Towards ‘magnificence’: The aspirational trajectory of value-creating journeys. Image by Jill Wellington (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/woman-girl-freedom-happy-sun-591576/

‘Mag­ni­fi­cent’, the adject­ive, should prop­erly be applied to human actions and vir­tues rather than tan­gible things, derived as it is from the Lat­in ‘mag­num facere’, which means to do some­thing great.  Why is ‘Mag­ni­fi­cence’ K Michael Hay­wood’s “North Star”? And how does he think tour­ism should nav­ig­ate towards it? Cre­at­ing ‘Com­munity Shared Value’ demands that DMOs […]

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Tourism’s common challenge: How do we create ‘community shared value’?

February 1, 2022

A common challenge. Image by sasint (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/sunset-men-silhouettes-helping-1807524/

Are there needs, wants, and desires com­mon to all (or most) indi­vidu­als with­in your com­munity? How might travel & tour­ism serve them? K Michael Hay­wood explores the chal­lenge all des­tin­a­tions face if they wish to cre­ate ‘com­munity shared value’. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] Des­tin­a­tions Inter­na­tion­al, the pro­fes­sion­al asso­ci­ation for […]

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Can tourism destinations-as-communities be better & smarter by design?

October 12, 2021

Can destinations-as-communities be better & smarter by design? Image by Gerd Altmann (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/cyber-artificial-intelligence-brain-4062449/

What does it mean to col­lab­or­at­ively design tour­ism at the com­munity level? And to what end? If it is to strive towards a ‘good’, ‘bet­ter’, ‘smarter’ tour­ism, what does that look like? Retired uni­ver­sity pro­fess­or K Michael Hay­wood shares his vis­ion.  It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [Thanks to Jim Butcher for invit­ing Prof Hay­wood to write a “GT” […]

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Save to sustain: Frugal innovation & traditional knowledge in circular tourism

July 13, 2021

Island. By Tomas Anunziata (CC0) via Pexels. https://www.pexels.com/photo/island-with-floating-boat-from-drone-3876404/ Vine. By gyromatical (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/vine-frame-border-leaves-wreath-6184947/ Family. By Clker-Free-Vector-Images (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/vectors/family-parents-kids-children-young-43873/

Angelo Sciacca was the first guest author to intro­duce the concept of the cir­cu­lar eco­nomy to this web­site when he argued for its poten­tial to make small island des­tin­a­tions more resi­li­ent and less depend­ent on travel & tour­ism. In this, his third “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Mr Sciacca adds frugal innov­a­tion and tra­di­tion­al know­ledge to his […]

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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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