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‘Not good enough. Move your … !’ Grit, honesty, hope, and how to survive a crisis

December 1, 2020
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Sandpaper in different grits (40, 80, 150, 240, 600) By Simon Eugster (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schleifpapier_verschiedene_Sorten.jpg

Politi­cians and pub­lic ser­vants spruiked their respect­ive places and tax-pay­er-fun­­ded ini­ti­at­ives, and industry giants and glob­al con­sult­ants had their say, but it was the small entre­pren­eurs who were the most inspir­ing speak­ers on the first day of the 2020 Glob­al Eco Asia-Pacific Tour­ism Con­fer­ence. What mat­ters? Indeed Sonia Beck­with, co-own­er of Live Nin­ga­loo, had a […]

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A community-based tourism dilemma: COVID’s ‘new normal’ vs ‘back to normal’

November 10, 2020

Community-based tourism Myanmar. "CBT. Visit Myanmar. Visit Dawei."

Skål recently recog­nised the Inter­na­tion­al Trade Centre’s Myan­mar Inclus­ive Tour­ism Pro­ject with a sus­tain­able tour­ism award. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Pro­ject con­sult­ant Peter Richards describes the pre-pan­­dem­ic prom­ise of new com­munity-based tour­ism products, their chal­lenges now, and how com­munit­ies are hand­ling COVID safety con­cerns as they con­sider reopen­ing.  At the start of 2020, the […]

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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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Accessible tourism for all: The new mantra in Nepal

October 20, 2020

The author, Pankaj Pradhananga, pushes a wheelchair. © Four Season Travel & Tours

For people with dis­ab­il­it­ies Nepal was once a des­tin­a­tion to avoid. This has changed. And quickly. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Pankaj Pra­dhananga shares how Nepal’s repu­ta­tion as an access­ible and inclus­ive des­tin­a­tion has rap­idly ascen­ded. In the first epis­ode of my talk show ‘Bey­ond Lim­its’, Jezza Wil­li­ams from New Zea­l­and shared his exper­i­ence exploring […]

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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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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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