The Bioasis project is the exciting new UK programme from the team behind STC Expeditions: an ‘immersive’ outdoor adventure, set in the year 2074 in a post climate-change apocalyptic world. School groups can choose either a 6 or 10 day mission to learn about conservation, rewilding and reconnecting with nature. Here Rebecca Waller chats to Adrian Ferraro to find out more.
SUNx Malta will host the first ever Climate Friendly Youth Travel Summit in April 2021. It will include workshops and activities aimed at highlighting the need for a clean and green post-Covid future for tourism.
During Climate Week NYC 2020, the first annual Regenerative Travel Summit was hosted. This successful virtual event attracted more than 1,800 people and 40 speakers - including including conservation experts, environmental economists and business owners. The aim of the summit was to foster solutions-oriented conversations focused on how we can move beyond sustainability to regeneration. This article looks at the five regenerative solutions that emerged out of the summit.
In this blog post for the World Travel Market, Travindy co-founder, Jeremy Smith, looks at how tourism can be regenerative. Moving beyond definitions, he suggests “Regenerative tourism is tourism playing its part harmoniously in all these processes, systems, and manifestations of life bursting through. It is tourism acting as a living system. Tourism patterned on life”.
VisitScotland chief Malcolm Roughead shares how his organisation has worked with host communities and other tourism stakeholders to plot a responsible and sustainable route out of the COVID crisis. . In this post, Malcolm talks about how Scotland has managed opening up to visitors, and more generally about the trend towards transformational travel.
Helsinki named world’s most sustainable travel destination — The Global Destination Sustainability Index measures the sustainability of travel destinations in four different categories using more than 70 indicators.
