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The Future of Tourism Coalition is rather like a public relations pyramid scheme. The earlier one signs up to it, the greater the PR benefit. After everyone rushes in it will no longer be newsworthy. So if you’re going to sign up for it, do so after you read this hot take. Or wait until […]
Read More Has ‘Future of Tourism’ failed host communities?
Tourism impact and sustainability expert Aadyaa Pandey discusses a few of the challenges overcome by Nepal’s Community Homestay Network (CHN). And she celebrates its positive impacts. Thanks to “Good Tourism” Insight Partner Second Look Worldwide for inviting Aadyaa to contribute this inspiring “GT” Insight about a social enterprise that arose from a modest yet wildly […]
Read More How a community-based tourism & homestay network empowers women in Nepal
Report by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, August 9, 2019. As millions of Muslims don robes and flock to Mecca for haj, a small counter movement to boycott the pilgrimage in protest at Saudi Arabia’s politics has won limited support online. Although the numbers are dwarfed by the 1.8 million who have arrived in Mecca for Friday’s […]
Read More Politics v pilgrimage: some Muslims call for Saudi haj boycott
Writing for The Conversation, Tom Baum of the University of Strathclyde discusses the responsibility borne by rich-world nations — and individual travellers — for poor countries’ “neo-colonial dependence” on tourism and air travel. Few would deny the threat to our planet posed by climate change, or the role that humans have played in the degradation of the natural environment. […]
Read More Climate change & air travel: Why we have a responsibility to tourism-dependent countries
Writing for The Conversation, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles of the University of South Australia points to examples of how host communities have regained some control of their tourism assets. Tourism today has a problem and needs an entire rethink. Pundits are debating overtourism, peak tourism and tourismphobia. Cities such as Barcelona, Venice and Dubrovnik are witnessing a […]
Read More Rethinking tourism so that locals can benefit from hosting visitors
Writing for The Conversation, Hector Gonzalez-Jimenez of the University of York suggests how one might better oneself and the world through travel. Travelling offers new experiences and can open people’s minds. It allows you to get out of your daily groove – of work, commuting, housework and cooking – to think about the things that […]
Read More Want to become a better person? Travelling more might be the answer