What is good tourism? “Good Tourism” wrap January-February 2025

February 28, 2025

What is good tourism? “Good Tourism” wrap January-February 2025 Strawberries by Arturro (CC0) via Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/shallow-focus-photography-of-strawberries-on-persons-palm-GdTLaWamFHw

Wel­come to the Janu­ary-Feb­ru­ary 2025 wrap of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences shared by friends and Part­ners of The “Good Tour­ism” Blog. [You too can share.] “Good Tour­ism” nev­er defines ‘good tour­ism’. Your cor­res­pond­ent would nev­er be so bold. The fact is that what’s good for one stake­hold­er may not be […]

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Khiri Travel unveils new sensory and colonial heritage tours in Southeast Asia

February 27, 2025

New Sensory and Colonial Heritage Tours Unveiled in Southeast Asia by Khiri Travel

Khiri Travel has launched two major series of tour products ahead of ITB Ber­lin. The first is Asi­an city day tours that indulge all five senses. The second is a series of multi-day travel exper­i­ences where guests vis­it or stay in charm­ing colo­ni­al man­sions and hotels from the era of 19th cen­tury European explorers in Asia. […]

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Butler asks: How do we solve one of the great conundrums of ‘sustainable’ tourism?

February 24, 2025

Richard Butler asks: How do we solve one of the great conundrums of ‘sustainable’ tourism? Pic by Michael Schwarzenberger (CC0) via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/turbine-aircraft-motor-rotor-590354/

“Inter­est­ing range of views”, Richard But­ler (of Tour­ism Area Life Cycle mod­el fame) writes in the com­ments sec­tion of the “GT” Insight Bites on oppor­tun­it­ies and threats to tour­ism in 2025.  “How do we square the first response re air travel and the second and fourth pos­it­ive responses about tour­ism in [South­east] Asia where many of the […]

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Khiri Travel joins The Long Run

February 17, 2025

Khiri Travel has joined The Long Run, a global community of purpose-driven tourism businesses which aims to implement positive change around the world through regenerative travel and leading by example

Khiri Travel has joined The Long Run, a glob­al com­munity of pur­­pose-driv­en tour­ism busi­nesses which aims to imple­ment pos­it­ive change around the world. Fast-grow­ing glob­al net­work The Long Run is a fast-grow­ing glob­al net­work that believes in regen­er­at­ive travel, and in lead­ing by example to make tour­ism a force for good around the world With 73 mem­bers — mostly […]

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Reclaim the riverside! EXO award winner creates family-friendly green spaces in Hanoi

and February 15, 2025

Reclaim the riverside! EXO award winner creates family-friendly green spaces in Hanoi

Think Play­grounds (TPG) is pro­tect­ing the unique biod­iversity of the Red River through the cre­ation of inclus­ive meet­ing places on the edge of deprived neigh­bour­hoods in Hanoi, Viet­nam.  TPG is an EXO Found­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Award win­ner. This post is based on a longer art­icle (PDF) writ­ten by former TPG intern Lucija Wićaz.  A grow­ing need […]

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Villagers, tour operators collaborate on new community-based Soum-son Trail in Laos

February 5, 2025

Villagers, tour operators collaborate on new community-based Soum-son Trail in Laos

The organ­isers of a new com­munity-based trekking route in remote north­ern Laos believe that the inclu­sion and train­ing of vil­la­gers in three moun­tain ham­lets is a pos­it­ive example of respons­ible travel. Their hope is that the com­munity-based tour­ism activ­ity will enhance the qual­ity of life for the vil­la­gers. Women pion­eers On Feb­ru­ary 16, six Australian […]

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