After a week of rising fears and a big cancellation, “Good news in tourism” is the perfect pick-me-up for the start of a new work week. And go!
“GT” published a fresh “GT” Insight on Friday about a backpackers in a rural community at the edge of Hogsback, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It’s a small tourism operation making a big community-based difference. New “GT” Friend Lieve Claessen, who operates Elundini Backpackers with her husband Elliot Sonjani, summarises some of the ongoing challenges facing them and their host community.
Whatever “Good Tourism” means to you, you too are invited to share your own “GT” Insights. Within reason — legality, topicality, decency, and good faith — “GT” is a free speech platform; a “safe space” to think out loud, make mistakes, risk offending someone, risk being offended, and to learn something. It’s like a university …
Tourism & climate change
From a young family in rural South Africa giving back to their community, to a roomful of jet-setter tourism elites in Malta … erm, think-tanking? … “GT” has quite the range of interests! Tourism really is everybody’s business.
Yes, “GT” Insight Partner SUNx — Strong Universal Network conducted its first Climate Friendly Travel Think Tank in Malta during the week. According to a SUNx social media post: “An amazing group of world leaders in the fields of aviation, tourism, climate change, and sustainable development have agreed a series of urgent actions for the tourism sector to respond to the growing climate crisis.”
Here are their key calls to action. For links to these stories and other great content follow https://goodtourismblog.com/2020/03/good-news-in-tourism-february-23-29-2020/