Sustainable Tourism | Ecotourism | Destinations & Communities
Providing market-based solutions to sustainable tourism, preserving invaluable social and environmental capital for the well being of local people worldwide. LEARN MORE
THE INVISIBLE BURDEN:
Groundbreaking Reports
& Analysis
ECOTOURISM:
Business Development
& Field Engagements
SPEAKING:
Speaking & Strategic
Destination Evaluation
KEY AFFILIATIONS:
Harvard University, Cornell University, The Travel Foundation
FEATURED PROJECTS
Tunisian Tourism and Environmental Health in a Changing Climate
Sri Lankan Model Rainforest Ecolodge
The Gems of Brazil’s Nature Tourism along the Estrada Real
Building a Resilient Puerto Rican Ecotourism Industry Post Hurricane Maria
Social and Environmentally Responsible Tourism in Sierra Leone
Developing a Sustainable Tourism Economy in El Salvador
Community-Based Tourism in Bangladesh’s Protected Areas
Latin American Tour Operators Plan for Sustainable Tourism
What’s New?
EWI Launches New Video Series
Join Megan Epler Wood for her new V-Log where she will give her take, interview experts, and answer crowd-sourced questions on the hot topics in the travel and tourism universe. The V-Log will take on the tough concepts and summarize issues for an on-line, mobile, video audience. Season 1 – Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet (2019) Ten episodes will cover industry solutions to the global travel and tourism overtourism crisis. Each industry representative from leading tour operators, aviation, cruise, and hotels will bring insights into the challenges to manage the footprint of their sector while maintaining a market edge.
Season 1, Introduction: EplerWood International V-Log
Season 1, Episode 2:
Can the Tourism Industry Finance Sustainable Destinations? Interview with Mark Milstein
In this episode, Megan Epler Wood discusses the state of financing of asset management and possibility of business and government working together to develop sustainable destinations. We are joined by Mark Milstein, Clinical Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University.
Watch all episodes here.
"Business as usual means that the assets themselves are being degraded at such a rate that tourists will not come in the future." ~ Mark Milstein -- Can the Tourism Industry Finance Sustainable Destinations? @CornellSGE
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“The earth’s greatest treasures are cracking under the weight of the soaring tourism economy. New data-driven systems to identify the cost of managing tourism’s most valued assets are required to stem a growing crisis in global tourism management. With the right leadership, finance and analysis in place, a whole new generation of tourism professionals can move forward and erase the invisible burden while benefiting millions around the globe.”
Megan Epler Wood, Principal