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”.
Skål recently recognised the International Trade Centre’s Myanmar Inclusive Tourism Project with a sustainable tourism award. In this “Good Tourism” Insight, Project consultant Peter Richards describes the pre-pandemic promise of new community-based tourism products, their challenges now, and how communities are handling COVID safety concerns as they consider reopening.
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.
Can a post-vaccine return to travel be smarter and greener than it was before March 2020? Some in the tourism industry are betting on it. In this article from the summer, The New York Times offers a definition for regenerative tourism and looks at some positive developments since the start of the pandemic, including the launch of the Future of Tourism Coalition.
Australia’s bushfires followed by the huge challenges posed by the pandemic have forced tour companies to rethink their approach to tourism and appeal more to the Australian market. Many travel providers to have found ways to rebuild from the devastating wildfires in more meaningful and sustainable way.
AHLA and its technology committee, Hospitality Technology Next Generation (HTNG), released an updated buyer’s guide and comparison matrix to help hoteliers assess the latest generation of personal safety devices for hotel staff.
