Tourism as a catalyst for regional regeneration & climate resilience
Keynote at the Travel to Tomorrow Summit — Bruges, Sept. 2019
In August and September I published two pieces on tourism as a series of four, and I still plan to write the remaining 2 pieces in the series as I prepare for my keynote at the Circular Tourism conference on Mallorca at the end of November 2019. Here are the first two articles:
Below is a recording of the keynote presentation I gave at the Travel to Tomorrow Summit organised by Visit Flanders in Bruges, on September 12th and 13th, 2019.
The presentation explores how climate change now urges a fundamental redesign of the human presence and impact on Earth, and how tourism with its cross-sectorial and global-local impact could be turned from being a growing problem into a solution for regional regeneration and the improvement of local climate resilience.
This presentation is somewhat challenging to people in the industry and climate activists alike, and yet, I firmly belief that “we are all crew own spaceship Earth” and we will have to work together to achieve the rapid transition now needed in the time left.
Here is the recording of my talk:
Here is a link. to the slides:
And the event:
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Daniel Christian Wahl — Catalyzing transformative innovation in the face of converging crises, advising on regenerative whole systems design, regenerative leadership, and education for regenerative development and bioregional regeneration.
Author of the internationally acclaimed book Designing Regenerative Cultures
