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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
Sri Lankan Model Rainforest Ecolodge
Building a Resilient Puerto Rican Ecotourism Industry Post Hurricane Maria
Community-Based Tourism in Bangladesh’s Protected Areas
Tunisian Tourism and Environmental Health in a Changing Climate
Latin American Tour Operators Plan for Sustainable Tourism
The Gems of Brazil’s Nature Tourism along the Estrada Real
Developing a Sustainable Tourism Economy in El Salvador
Social and Environmentally Responsible Tourism in Sierra Leone
What’s New?
EWI Responds to Global Challenge of Lowering Tourism Carbon Emissions
December 2, 2019
During COP 25 and the Climate Summit Week, EplerWood International is releasing a statement on the systematic measures needed to limit CO2 emissions of tourism which are 4 times greater than previous estimates and growing faster than most international trade.
In 2019, EplerWood International produced a report together with the Cornell Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise with support from the Travel Foundation, Destinations at Risk, the Invisible Burden, which identifies the unmeasured costs of tourism growth at the destination level. The firm also worked with the International Sustainable Tourism Initiative (ISTI) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to provide local authorities with a systematic data analysis framework developed to measure resource uses and GhG emissions per tourist at the destination level.
EWI seeks to help tourism authorities to better manage tourism growth and align their visitor targets with national and international efforts to lower GhG emissions under the Paris Agreement.
EplerWood International has launched these research efforts to measure the holistic, invisible impacts of tourism, and lower GhG emissions in collaboration with our research partners, and by working with destinations and businesses worldwide.
Read EWI’s full Climate Summit Week Statement here: Systematic Measures Needed to Limit CO2 Emissions of Tourism.
Overtourism in Europe's historic cities sparks backlash | Europe | The Guardian. Good summary. Next steps are emerging on education, finance, give policy. Watch this space. https://t.co/4mflSwJezU
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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