How can we change sustainable tourism destination management for good?
To create a more sustainable tourism industry, destination managers need to tackle ‘the invisible burden’ that travellers and their facilitators and service providers impose on people and places.
Megan Epler Wood discusses the energy, intelligence, resources, hope, and education required to transform destination management for the 21st century and beyond.
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One of the most distinctive changes in our industrial age has been the transformation of travel & tourism into a global, trillion-dollar industry which transports, accommodates, and organises millions of visitors across hundreds of national boundaries to enjoy the planet’s invaluable cultural and natural attractions.
While once an elite pleasure, travel has become a universal right which brings economic benefits across the world.
However, the tourism industry is hampered by inadequate investment in the competent management of its significant social and environmental impacts.
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While travellers are without question of great benefit to the destinations they visit, their unaccounted-for impacts, known as ‘the invisible burden’, are a growing threat to destinations that are without the resources or skills to manage their most precious assets.
What my own experience has shown is that, despite tourism generating excellent foreign exchange and tax revenues, more and more traditional destinations are facing operational deficits that restrict local authorities’ ability to manage the costs.
This problem becomes increasingly grave as … continue reading this “Good Tourism” Insight free-of-charge at The “Good Tourism” Blog.
