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Title: The "Good Tourism" Blog - Diverse perspectives on travel & tourism: It's complicated!

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Is travel & tourism a human right or elite privilege? As residents protest against overtourism and destinations introduce visitor caps, is it time to rethink our freedom of movement? Ralf Vogler, Nadja Schweiggart, and Adrian Müller outline how we might distinguish between necessary travel and discretionary tourism consumption and propose a ‘staircase model’ of ascending j...

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Welcome to the March-May 2026 wrap of “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel news, insights, and experiences shared by friends and Partners of The “Good Tourism” Blog. [You too can share.] What is good tourism? The travel industry is complex, so it is a good idea to open one’s mind to perspectives one may never otherwise encounter. This is the “Good Tourism” mission. It’s “GT”. An...

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Do green, low-carbon travel & tourism supply chains unintentionally exclude women? “[C]lean energy transitions are never purely technical. They redistribute costs and opportunities, which can unintentionally widen existing gender inequities.” This is what Kevin Phun of the Centre for Responsible Tourism Singapore asks and argues in a “Good Tourism” Insight Bite that lead...

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The ‘say-do gap’ in sustainable travel & tourism is not only an issue in consumer decision-making and capital allocation. It is also an institutional, bureaucratic, and political problem. As Doreen Nyamweya has discovered through her experience in local government in Kenya, progress towards sustainability is possible, but never swift nor perfect.

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"Can tourism in developing countries ever be truly 'sustainable' when it deepens inequality? Using one destination in the Global South, argue whether tourism there genuinely advances SDGs 8, 10 and 12 University College Birmingham Senior Lecturer Simon Faulkner posed that as a challenge to his students. Three rose to it.

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