Regenerative Tourism: Myth and Reality

luxury eco-breaks are great if you can afford them ... but spare us the sermons ! Jim Butcher, shared from Politics of Tourism

Photo by Anastasiya Badun on Unsplash

it’s the latest thing

‘Regenerative’ is the latest ethical prefix to accompany ‘tourism’, following a well-worn path from eco, sustainable, green, community, responsible etc. It has been defined as tourism that develops within local environmental limits, and plays a role not only in conserving or minimising impacts, but in improving, or regenerating, the environment  in some way. In academic journals, eco-advocacy and high-end branding, being ‘regenerative’ is presented as a way of cleaning up the much-maligned mass tourism.

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(There is also a short version of the essay on The “Good Tourism” Blog, here.)