Renown journalist and author Elizabth Becker identified the threat of ‘overtourism’ in her book 'OVERBOOKED: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism', published in 2013. In this interview with Sustainability Leaders, she shares what inspired her to write her book and discusses how governments, the cruise industry and the media need to step up to the challenge to make tourism more sustainable.
Naturasì aims to give people healthy and good quality seasonal food while also promoting local agriculture. Their latest project involves creating a network of restaurants and hotels for people wanting to choose a more sustainable way to travel. Here Greta talks to project manager of "Eat and Sleep with Naturasì", Diego Mori.
Ruth Dolla, Official Spokesperson, Visit Sweden, talks to ETTravelWorld about how sustainability is a part of the Swedish lifestyle and is reflected in every aspect that a tourist experiences. By supporting tourism companies that offer sustainable experiences, a tourist is able to contribute to the circular economy and the experiences that they take back might inspire them and others to keep on living sustainably making tourism a tool for sustainable development.
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”.
