Category: Community-based tourism

The Greening of Gritty Ulsan

Destination Stewardship Report – Autumn 2020 Ulsan, industrial powerhouse of South Korea, wasn’t known for its ecotourism opportunities. Indeed, the city was planning to clear-cut its riparian bamboo forest until local residents and NGOs stepped in. Dr. Mihee Kang and Seok Yoon explain what happened next, including the key role

October 2, 2020

Engaging a U.S. National Park’s Gateway Communities

Destination Stewardship Report – Summer 2020 Improving relations between a national park and its gateway communities can be tricky, involving touchy issues such as invasive species, extractive industries, air pollution, visitation levels and economics, even dark skies. The collaborative approach employed for North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park yielded actionable

June 27, 2020

Crete Needs to Restore its Gastronomic Heritage

Destination Stewardship Report – Summer 2020 Culinary expert Nikki Rose says Crete has wandered far from its roots as the “Garden of Greece,” losing traditional farms, villages, and cuisine in the process. Mass tourism has been partly responsible, and sustainable tourism could help reverse the trend, restoring Crete’s traditional, organic,

June 25, 2020

Anna Maria Island Restoration

Destination Stewardship Report – Summer 2020 A historic holiday island in Florida was succumbing to bland residential development with little regard for sustainability. In this case, it took a visionary leader from the private sector to turn things around. David Randle sums up six lessons from Anna Maria Island. Anna

June 24, 2020

Indigenous Tourism

[Above: A San boy greets a visitor’s camera. Photo: Tamara Olton.] These links provide resources for enhancing the interaction between tourism and indigenous peoples. Please send suggested additions. Please help build out this directory with international resources. Links to pertinent blog posts on American Indian, San (bushman), Bedouin tourism. Links

February 23, 2016

Creating Low-Impact Tourism From Scratch

It was an unsettling surprise. Here I was leading a tourism workshop in the Comoro Islands, only to learn that many local stakeholders did not share my enthusiasm for the potential of this small Indian Ocean country west of Madagascar. Some expressed the sentiment that the game was already lost.

December 18, 2013