Risk and crisis management

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Scottish tourism plans transformational path to post-COVID recovery

November 3, 2020

The Loup of Fintry. Image supplied by VisitScotland.

Vis­itScot­land chief Mal­colm Roughead shares how his organ­isa­tion has worked with host com­munit­ies and oth­er tour­ism stake­hold­ers to plot a respons­ible and sus­tain­able route out of the COVID crisis. Enjoy this “Good Tour­ism” Insight.  Scot­tish tour­ism, like the sec­tor world­wide, is in a pre­cari­ous state. The coronavir­us pan­dem­ic and its ongo­ing effects are chal­len­ging the […]

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From overtourism to no tourism in Seychelles: What now for conservation?

October 27, 2020
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Seychelles is well known for its natural beauty (Photo: Nature Seychelles, Peter Chadwick)

Acclaimed envir­on­ment­al­ist and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment pro Dr Nirmal Shah has no solu­tion to con­ser­va­tion’s budget crisis in the COVID-19 era. And no-one else appears to have any answers either. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, the Nature Seychelles chief offers a brief his­tory of eco­tour­ism in Africa’s most pros­per­ous nation and lets us in on the […]

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Tourism in crisis, tourism in need, & the hopeful pivots of the purpose-driven

and October 14, 2020

Elephant Conservation Center, Sayaboury, Laos. Image by Jimmy Beunardeau; supplied by authors.

Even the most altru­ist­ic of tour­ism organ­isa­tions is strug­gling to sur­vive in des­tin­a­tions that have been reli­ant on inter­na­tion­al tour­ism money to take care of anim­als, places, and people. How­ever neces­sity is a par­ent of innov­a­tion and, as Tour­ism In Need co-founders Robert Pow­ell and Ameer Vir­ani have found out, there are plenty of both […]

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Tourism in crisis: A Myanmar elephant camp & community pivot to plan B

and October 2, 2020

An elephant of Green Hill Valley Elephant Camp, Shan state, Myanmar. (Image by Hollis Burbank-Hammarlund). Inset: GHV's Founders Tin Win Maw (Left) and Htun Htun Wynn (Image courtesy of GHV).

Through the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and tour­ism crisis, hopes rest on con­tin­gency “plan B” to sus­tain the retired log­ging ele­phants of Green Hill Val­ley, Myan­mar and the com­munity of people who love them.  Hol­lis Bur­b­ank-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al knows them well, hav­ing led ele­phant health­care and wel­fare work­shops at the camp in 2018 and […]

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Tourism in crisis: How local staff supported their communities in Myanmar

September 24, 2020
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Ku Mel project team image featured in "Tourism in crisis: How our local staff supported their communities in Myanmar"

In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Nia Klatte of Khiri Reach, the char­it­able arm of “GT” Part­ner Khiri Travel, shares how her organ­isa­tion’s Myan­­mar-based teams stepped up to sup­port host com­munit­ies dur­ing the COV­­ID-related travel & tour­ism clos­ures. This pan­dem­ic has shown us again how big our respons­ib­il­ity is for the people with whom we work; […]

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How tourism averts disaster: By thinking, acting globally

August 11, 2020
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"Danger cliff edge" sign on a windswept grassy landscape. How does tourism avert disaster?

Tan­ner C Knorr is wor­ried. He’s wor­ried for travel & tour­ism-reli­ant parts of the world he thinks may be headed for a cliff’s edge, includ­ing places he knows very well. In this “GT” Insight, the founder of two “GT” part­ners sug­gests how the whole world might pull togeth­er to avert dis­aster. When COVID-19 hit I […]

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