Really, what’s the difference? ‘Sustainable tourism’ vs ‘regenerative tourism’
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2 min readSep 20, 2022
In destination and industry practice, what is (are) the difference(s) between ‘sustainable tourism’ and ‘regenerative tourism’?
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.
My thanks to all 13 respondents. Their answers appear in the order received. Click/touch a name to go to their answer:
- Loretta Bellato — Nine differences
- Wolfgang Georg Arlt — Entropy is a law of nature
- Tim Russell — ‘Sustainability is the bare minimum one should expect’
- Greg Bakunzi — ‘Where we work, there is no great difference’
- Saverio Francesco Bertolucci — All negatives ‘finally solved’
- K Michael Haywood — ‘We’re obliged to do a lot more than just maintain’
- Phoebe Everingham — Is ‘sustainability’ still viable?
- Sudipta K Sarkar — In the urban context they are much the same
- Susan Eardly — Take responsibility
- Melanie Kay Smith — Old wine. New bottles.
- Debbie Clarke — ‘To regenerate is to heal’
- Jonathon Day — Regenerative approaches add new energy
- Edwin Magio — ‘What kind of tourism do we need post pandemic?’
- What do you think?
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