Happy “Good news in tourism day”! Posted on Sunday to be ready on Monday, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a work week. And go!
Important “GT” stuff first:
The climate-related carbon targets in the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) do not even come close to offering the best value for money in terms of social, economic, and environmental benefits, according to Bjorn Lomborg and his Nobel laureate collaborators. If true, this has important implications for travel & tourism.
This week’s good news in tourism, in no particular order:
Not good news as such, but important: Probably the most credible source of information about COVID-19 is the World Health Organization (WHO).
Liberia is on track to set up the world’s newest national tourism organisation (NTO). The National Tourism Authority Act of 2020 reportedly has bipartisan support in the west African republic’s House of Representatives. Legislators led by Acarous M Gray hope that the new NTO will operate independently as the “principal government agency”. The Act mandates that the NTO seek local community involvement “in all stages of responsible tourism development”.
Meanwhile, Turismo de Portugal has been charged with embedding sustainability into a national tourism policy with clear environmental, social, and economic goals for 2027 and an accompanying set of indicators help them track progress.
Links to these and many more stories available at: https://goodtourismblog.com/2020/02/good-news-in-tourism-february-16-22-2020/