How Does Regenerative Tourism Differ From Sustainable Tourism?

To put it simply, sustainable tourism looks to preserve a site the way it is, regenerative tourism seeks to leave a place better than it found it through empowering the relationship between visitors and locals,’ says Etéreo‘s General Manager, Vinod Narayan.

‘The word sustainable implies “to enable the continuation of things as they are”. In an environment which has not been degraded and where communities are thriving, a new tourism development should aim to sustain that status quo. In a destination where poverty is rife, biodiversity is waning, resources are strained and unfairly distributed however, it is preferable not to sustain the situation but to improve it. We live in a world where most tourism destinations need some form of repair or restoration – social or natural – and so perhaps the time has come for all tourism to move beyond sustaining, into regeneration,’ says Portia Hart, Founder of the Green Apple Foundation.

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