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Doing It Better: Big Bay, Michigan

Posted on May 9, 2022 by Kelsey Frenkiel
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Take a look at how a low-population, outdoorsy locale – Big Bay, Michigan, USA – goes about convening a destination stewardship council after the extractive industries it once depended on have wound down. Continue reading →

Doing It Better: Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland

Posted on February 14, 2022 by Tiffany Chan
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On a long, skinny Icelandic peninsula, five small municipalities have teamed up to create a modest destination stewardship council and supporting network. Tiffany Chan explores the Snæfellsnes model of sustainable collaboration – a work in progress that has already earned a platinum sustainability rating. The eighth in our series on destination stewardship councils. Continue reading →

Saving a Wisconsin Trout Stream

Posted on November 12, 2021 by Jonathan Tourtellot

[Above: Shooting in Wisconsin’s “Kinni.” Photo: Erika Gilsdorf] Kinnickinnic River, Wisconsin – Our original concept video (featuring the same young hosts as in Sierra Gorda) takes a look at a success story in rural and notes-rural Wisconsin. Shot off-season in November, … Continue reading →

Contrasting Tourism Landscapes in Karnataka, India

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Gayathri Hegde

The pandemic exposed the dangers of ‘tourism monocultures’ – dependence on one product only – versus a more holistic approach to tourism fare. Gayathri Hegde has been researching the differing tourism experiences of Dandeli and Joida, neighboring towns in Karnataka, … Continue reading →

“Inspiring Places” Pilot Video Released

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Jonathan Tourtellot
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Featuring Sierra Gorda, Querétaro, Mexico. We chose this UNESCO Biosphere Reserve as the international pilot for the World’s Inspiring Places series. Here’s why. Continue reading →

Sierra Gorda To Lead New Video Series

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Erika Gilsdorf
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Our First “World’s Inspiring Places,” a Short-Form Travel Documentary: Producer Erika Gilsdorf explains what inspired HER to launch this video series, focused on great stewardship of destinations. Continue reading →

Grassroots Geotourism

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Linnea Iantria
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A restaurant owner in southwestern Missouri demonstrates why the key to a successful geotourism project in the countryside is a local champion willing to be the catalyst for change. A university geotourism class helps, too. Continue reading →

Cambodian Conservation Hero Honored

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Elizabeth Becker
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A courageous Cambodian has risked all to help save the country’s rainforests and ecotourism business from illegal logging. He just won one of the world’s six Goldman Environmental Prizes. Veteran Cambodia journalist Elizabeth Becker reports. Continue reading →

Guyana’s Make or Break Moment for Tourism

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Devika McWalters
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A development bank’s well-intentioned report maps out a “critical path” for growing Guyana tourism, but—as is often the case with such plans—fails to lay out the critical stewardship practices needed to protect what tourists would come to experience, as well as a way of life that locals may wish to retain. Continue reading →

News from the Alaska Geotourism Initiative

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Tony Nakazawa
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This university-led program addresses the challenge of attracting tourists to communities largely bypassed by charter flights, tour buses, and cruise passengers. Another project highlights cross cultural tourism, featuring the legacy of a 19th-century Japanese pioneer in Alaska. Geotourism courses are also in process. Continue reading →

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