For this “GT” Insight, Susanne Becken and David Gillbanks correspond to explore some of the similarities and differences between the new buzz phrase “regenerative tourism” and the old buzz term “sustainable tourism”.
Dr Becken: Sustainable tourism is still important, and you are right; one key motivation for the Dashboard was exactly to look at the different dimensions in an integrated way … something that does not often happen. Many pieces on sustainable tourism consider one dimension in focus, e.g. poverty, or maybe carbon. But to look at all of them and say, “hey, here’s some economic benefit but it comes at a high cost of carbon …”; that is relatively new (or scarce).
But regenerative tourism goes a bit further and, by definition, is really ...
More on the similarities and differences between regenerative tourism & sustainable tourism at https://goodtourismblog.com/2020/08/regenerative-tourism-vs-sustainable-tourism-whats-the-difference/