What are tourism’s biggest challenges & threats over the next five years to 2028?

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Over the next five years, what is the single biggest challenge or threat facing tourism where you work, or that you have identified through your research and study? And what are the key strategies that your organisation, destination, or the industry at large should employ to overcome it?

It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight Bites question.

Your correspondent put the question to a range of travel & tourism stakeholders — “GT” Insight authors, “GT” Partners, and their invitees — and invited emailed written responses of no more than 300 words.

Thanks to the 13 respondents who shared their thoughts. Their answers appear in the order received. (Click/touch an item on the Bites menu to go straight to it.)

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• Climate complacency | Geoffrey Lipman
• In Rwanda: Economic and regional instability | Greg Bakunzi
• In Hainan, China: The loss of a ‘flagship species’ | Yana Wengel
• Another global pandemic | Steve Noakes
• In New Hampshire, USA: Workforce shortages | Jada Lindblom
• In Barcelona, Spain: Capacity management | Saverio F Bertolucci
• Climate transformations | Kevin Phun
• Climate adaptations | Duncan M Simpson
• Forgettable experiences | Ed Jackiewicz
• In Bhutan: Maintaining Gross National Happiness | Dorji Dhradhul
• Travel & tourism access for all | Neha Arora
• Adapting to uncertainty | K Michael Haywood
• Climate action is on us | Herb Hiller
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