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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2025 ‘critical’ for tourism climate action: SUNx unveils ‘Baku Declaration’ action plan

January 20, 2025

2025 is a critical year for climate action, and SUNx Malta is intensifying efforts to build a stronger, more resilient global network for Climate Friendly Travel (CFT)

2025 is a crit­ic­al year for cli­mate action, and SUNx Malta is intensi­fy­ing efforts to build a stronger, more resi­li­ent glob­al net­work for Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT). With the Baku Declar­a­tion call­ing for accel­er­ated trans­form­a­tion in the tour­ism sec­tor, we are scal­ing up our impact: … and pub­lish­ing our new-look eXist news­let­ter. Here is a page […]

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Heartfelt thanks to Amazing Thailand, TAT, and guests, from the Anurak Lodge family

January 14, 2025

Anurak Community Lodge thanks Amazing Thailand for responsible tourism award

As repor­ted here, Anurak Com­munity Lodge in south­ern Thai­l­and won the Tour­ism Author­ity of Thai­l­and 2024 Respons­ible Tour­ism Award in the “Respons­ible Tour­ism Accom­mod­a­tion” cat­egory. We are at once proud and humbled. Deep­est grat­it­ude The entire Anurak Lodge fam­ily extend our deep­est grat­it­ude to the Tour­ism Author­ity of Thai­l­and (TAT) for the esteemed “Best Responsible […]

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What is tourism’s biggest opportunity and/or threat where you are in 2025?

January 13, 2025
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What is tourism's biggest opportunity and tourism's biggest threat where you are in 2025?

What is tour­is­m’s biggest oppor­tun­ity and/or threat where you are in 2025? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites ques­tion. Your cor­res­pond­ent put the ques­tion to the travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers in the “GT” net­work, invit­ing responses of no more than 300 words. (You too can join the “GT” net­work. Register.) Thanks to the nine good people — pro­fess­ors, pro­fes­sion­als, and prac­ti­tion­ers — who took the time […]

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“GT” Insight Bites: Nostalgia

January 7, 2025

Nostalgia and tourism. Filmstrip negatives. Image by Pexels (CC0) va Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/filmstrip-negatives-photography-1850277/

‘Nos­tal­gia. It ain’t what it used to be!’  Our travel tastes are often shaped by the memor­ies of child­hood hol­i­day exper­i­ences, or of stor­ies passed down through the gen­er­a­tions. Mar­keters often play to this. What is the role of nos­tal­gia in hol­i­day­mak­ing, from an indi­vidu­al or com­mer­cial per­spect­ive? It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Bites ques­tion. Your cor­res­pond­ent put […]

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Good news in travel & tourism October-December 2024

December 31, 2024

Share ‘Good news’ in travel & tourism Oct-Dec 2024 as you would a watermelon. Image by Kenta Kikuchi (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/sliced-watermelon-on-white-paper-1C55VIfJSuQ

This ‘Good news in travel & tour­ism’ wraps up three months of “Good Tour­ism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and exper­i­ences: Octo­ber, Novem­ber, and Decem­ber 2024. Share ‘Good news’ as you would a water­mel­on on a hot sum­mer­’s day … It’s “GT”. And go! (Click/touch an item on the shar­ing menu to go straight to it. And don’t for­get to share.) […]

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