Tourism resilience and recovery

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From linear to circular: How to build resilience in small island tourism destinations

February 4, 2021
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Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Picture: David Kirkland. Circular arrows by Gordon Johnson (CC0) via Pixabay (added to image by "GT").

The clue is in its name. Travel & tour­is­m’s fatal flaw is its total reli­ance on free­dom of move­ment. Lock­downs and bor­der clos­ures in response to COVID-19 have blind­sided tour­ism-depend­ent eco­nom­ies and dev­ast­ated live­li­hoods. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, sus­tain­able tour­ism con­sult­ant Angelo Sciacca argues that now is a good time for the stake­hold­ers of […]

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How travellers respond to crises and disasters and what tourism can do to minimise cancellations

January 19, 2021

Superhero. By AD_Images (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/boy-child-kid-running-super-hero-4302994/

Gabby Wal­ters is an expert in crisis and dis­aster recov­ery mar­ket­ing. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Dr Wal­ters shares some of what she knows about trav­el­ler con­cerns dur­ing and after a dis­rupt­ive event and what travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers can do to mit­ig­ate losses and bounce back. A primary goal of any tour­ist des­tin­a­tion impacted […]

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When the odds are against you: How a small tour operator survived 2020

January 14, 2021
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Turtle, Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia, Australia. Image by Chris Jansen supplied by Live Ningaloo.

From the excit­ing pro­spect of a break­out sea­son to the exist­en­tial threat of bank­ruptcy, 2020 was a tur­bu­lent year for small Aus­trali­an eco-tour oper­at­or Live Nin­ga­loo. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Sonia Beck­with shares how she and her part­ner fought to keep their eco­tour­ism dreams alive. In Decem­ber 2019 we pre­dicted that 2020 would be […]

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The five most visited “Good Tourism” posts of 2020 (& all time)

December 31, 2020
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Five! Image by yohoprashant (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/colorful-five-fingers-kid-fingers-4043742/

I jot down this irrel­ev­ant pre­amble on Decem­ber 31, 2020 … Most of the past 364 days have been ter­ribly tough for many, of course, espe­cially travel & tour­ism folk. Can­’t say much more about it than every per­son and their pet has already said — “Good rid­dance 2020 … Hope 2021 is bet­ter … blah blah […]

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Why are travel & tourism workers growing mushrooms in rural Sri Lanka?

December 10, 2020
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Oyster mushroom abstraction. Image (CC0) via Pikrepo.

Susan Eardly and Dinesh Pathir­ana are empower­ing rur­al Sri Lankan fam­il­ies pre­vi­ously reli­ant on tour­ism income to devel­op sus­tain­able busi­nesses. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Ms Eardly dis­cusses funguses and answers the ques­tion: “Why fungi?”  (Thanks to “GT” Friend Richard Shep­ard for the intro­duc­tion.) Sri Lanka, the trop­ic­al island set like a pearl in the Indian […]

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Re: Ecotourism

December 2, 2020

Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk, Walpole, Western Australia. Image by Komkick (CC0) via pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/tree-top-walk-west-australia-forest-3847669/

Sev­er­al speak­ers con­sidered what eco­tour­ism might look like post-COV­­ID and explored “revolu­tion­ary” ideas dur­ing the second day of the 2020 Glob­al Eco Asia-Pacific Tour­ism Con­fer­ence. And, pre­dict­ably, there were lots of oth­er “re-” words ban­died about — Reset. Rethink. Redesign. Reflect. Reboot. Regen­er­ate. … — words bet­ter applied to the travel industry at large rather than the “eco-” niche; […]

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