“GT” Insight Bites: On tourism technology, progress, and local benefit-sharing

Write no more than 300 words on a travel & tourism topic important to you.

This is an open invitation to travel & tourism stakeholders to contribute a “GT” Insight Bite. Simply contact “GT”. “GT” will publish as and when there are a few new Bites, or a couple; sometimes even individually.

So don’t be shy. “GT” doesn’t judge. “GT” publishes.

Thanks to everyone who participated in this first open Bites. Their responses appear in the order received.

Click/touch a name to go to their “GT” Insight Bite:

• Saverio F Bertolucci — Temper your expectations of technology
• K Michael Haywood — On progress, performance, and purpose
• Edwin Magio — New benefit-sharing model needed at Dagurugurueti

What AI ‘thinks’ (The prompt: “Write 300 words on the most important issue in travel & tourism right now”):

• Bard — The rising cost of travel
• ChatGPT — (Stuck in September 2021)

More importantly:

• What do you think?

Previous “GT” Insight Bites:

• Hey, travel & tourism, are you ‘neocolonialist’?
• Who’s the new boss? Tourism industry association seeks leader
• ‘The hospitality industry offers a great career.’ Really?
• Cruise ships: Blessing or blight?
• Tourist vs traveller: What’s the difference?
• The heads of finance, ops, and PR walk into their boss’s office …
• Yes, Tourism Minister
• Tourism’s biggest challenges & threats over the next five years
• ‘Tourism is built on the backbone of white supremacy’.
• What’s the difference? ‘Sustainable tourism’ vs ‘regenerative tourism’
• Want a career in tourism? Important things you should know
• Diverse perspectives on travel & tourism and a fairer world
• Diverse perspectives on economic degrowth and tourism
• Diverse perspectives on visitor dispersion