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The cause of overtourism & how tourism can avoid choking on success

February 19, 2019
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Tourist go home messages are getting louder and more frequent as overtourism becomes a problem too big to ignore. Image by Duncan Hull (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/29569046192

World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture & Her­it­age (WTACH) Pres­id­ent & CEO Chris Flynn weighs in on the over­tour­ism dis­cus­sion in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. Mr Flynn iden­ti­fies the cause of over­tour­ism and how the tour­ism industry might avoid more of it. We are hear­ing more and more about “over­tour­ism” and the neg­at­ive impact it is having […]

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Goodbye freeloading, hello free thinking; the Travel Foundation asks “Who pays?”

May 26, 2018
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Little Venice quay flooded with tourists

When you next go on vaca­tion, who will pay? It’s a simple ques­tion and you may think the answer is obvi­ous: you, the cus­tom­er. But are trav­el­lers cov­er­ing their costs? Experts at a roundtable event organ­ised by Cor­nell Uni­ver­sity were asked that ques­tion and they answered with a resound­ing “no”. All those around the table — aca­dem­ics and representatives […]

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Galapagos tourism threatens native wildlife

November 2, 2017

Galapagos tourism threatens wildlife. Image by By Agencia de Noticias ANDES (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr

While the Galapa­gos tour­ism industry relies on nat­ur­al and his­tor­ic­al and nat­ur­al his­tory attrac­tions, it is also one of the threats to that same her­it­age … By Veron­ica Tor­­al-Granda, PhD can­did­ate, and Steph­en Gar­nett, Pro­fess­or of Con­ser­va­tion and Sus­tain­able Live­li­hoods, Charles Dar­win Uni­ver­sity, writ­ing for The Con­ver­sa­tion. Nat­ive spe­cies are par­tic­u­larly vul­ner­able on islands, because […]

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The “Good Tourism” Podcast #1: Geoffrey Lipman & the existential threat

and October 27, 2017

Geoffrey Lipman

Pro­fess­or Geof­frey Lip­man joined Dav­id Gill­banks on Skype, Thursday, to record the first epis­ode of The “Good Tour­ism” Pod­cast. About pod­casts & how to sub­scribe to The “Good Tour­ism” Pod­cast  [UPDATE Novem­ber 8, 2017: The Inter­na­tion­al Insti­tute for Peace through Tour­ism has chosen five people from the world of travel & tour­ism to hon­our as “Glob­al Ambassadors […]

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Lisbon locals face eviction in favour of trendy tourism, celebrities, short-term rentals

October 21, 2017

Lisbon tourism is booming. Locals are being indirectly forced out by trendy tourism and celebrities

Lis­bon tour­ism is boom­ing. With­in a month of the “GT” Insight dir­ect from Lis­bon — “Why We Hate Tour­ism Tours & why you should too” by Ricardo Oli­veira — the Thom­son Reu­ters Found­a­tion reports on the neg­at­ive impacts of trendy tour­ism on loc­als’ life­styles. Carla da Cunha has a tight budget with which to find a new home in […]

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Minister raises racism at South Africa Tourism Month launch

July 31, 2017

South Africa tourism minister raised racism at tourism month launch. Meanwhile, the many races of South Africa are represented in the Nelson Mandela University Choir. Source: GovernmentZA https://www.flickr.com/photos/governmentza/35872724332/

An hol­ist­ic focus on the socioeco­nom­ic bene­fits of tour­ism to com­munit­ies is at the heart of South Africa Tour­ism Month, Septem­ber 2017, which was launched last week. “This is why it is so vital to encour­age South Afric­ans to travel around their own coun­try,” South Africa Min­is­ter of Tour­ism Tokoz­ile Xasa said. “Not only will they […]

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