toilet tourism
The 2018 International Toilet Tourism Award Winners Crowned
MyTravelResearch.com | June 13, 2018
Six toilets popular with tourists around the world have officially been crowned and are ascending their thrones for 2018. Winners include a James Bond themed loo on a mountain top, a toilet that makes you feel you're in a forest, and an airport where guide dogs can poop indoors in comfort Six toilets in tourism destinations around the world have won coveted titles in the 2018 International Toilet Tourism Awards. Submissions were received from tourism destinations across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The toilets were judged for their design, quirkiness, location, accessibility, and economic contribution to their locality...
The 2018 International Toilet Tourism Awards Now Open
MyTravelResearch.com | February 14, 2018
The destinations with the best tourist toilets in the world will be invited to sit on the throne for a year [Clockwise from bottom left] International Toilet Tourism Awards co-founders Carolyn Childs and Bronwyn White; Dunnies with a Difference, quirkiest winner last year; a new category of Sanitation Progress for emerging economies has been added for the toilet awards in 2018; and the new bright entrance to Southern Highlands Welcome Centre loos (winner of Best Economic Contributor in the 2017 awards.) THE 2018 International Toilet Tourism Awards are now open to submissions from tourism destinations that want to wipe the floor with th...
The 2017 International Toilet Tourism Award Winners Announced
MyTravelResearch.com | July 5, 2017
GREAT loos in tourism destinations become talking points, encourage repeat visits and can be a positive indicator of how the host community respects tourists. When visitors stop to spend a penny, they usually spend more than that and end up boosting the local visitor economy and creating jobs. Those are the findings based on research by Carolyn Childs and Bronwyn White, co-founders of MyTravelResearch.com. The duo organized the inaugural 2017 International Toilet Tourism Awards to show the clear link between toilets and tourism success. The winners of the awards can now be announced. Thirty entries were received by deadline day 15 June....
Talking Dirty: How Toilet Tourism Can Change the World
Carolyn Childs | July 29, 2016
by Carolyn Childs Every year I love reading about the Ig Nobel Award. This is an international science award that every year recognises a great truth about humans. If we can make an emotional connection to an issue, we are more likely to do something about it. The idea of the award is to recognise science that 'first makes you laugh and then makes you think'. The same is true of #toilettourism: the impact that toilets can have on the visitation of a place. Whenever we talk about it – including when Bron published her piece last year on the subject – people laugh. Then their face changes and they nod sagely. The next comment ...
Toilet Tourism: Spend a Penny or Two and Make a Marketing Splash
MyTravelResearch.com | January 9, 2015
By Bronwyn White, co-founder of MyTravelResearch.com At MyTravelResearch.com we often see a disconnection between what travellers want and what the travel industry delivers. Destinations obsess about their product or service in a way that customers don't. They lose sight of the basics and what is important to customers. Perhaps the ultimate basic experience that unites all tourist experiences is the loo. Yes, toilets, bathrooms, lavatories, rest rooms, bogs, dunnies and loos are a constant source of traveller apprehension. Clean, reliable, functioning toilets are still hard to find. Forget advertising and big bucks, the humble toilet i...
