EplerWood International works with major institutions committed to researching and designing timely and effective response mechanisms to the rapid growth of tourism worldwide.
Our partners work with us to raise the bar in the global community to protect the earth’s most valued assets and to determine the bestforms of investment in protecting business and destination value.
EplerWood International’s affiliations have been honed to attack the questions of the moment in our field:
- the rapid changes in travel demographics and source markets
- the impacts of the digital economy on tourism supply chains the growth of aviation,
- the development of a growing number of overtourism hotspots
Major Affiliations
The Travel Foundation
We tackle the huge environmental and social challenges that global tourism brings. Tourism can bring much needed economic opportunities for local communities and funds for conservation. But, when not well managed, it can create long term problems for local residents and environmental damage. We aim to reduce the negative impacts of tourism and harness opportunities for local livelihoods and conservation. To achieve this, we support tourism stakeholders to create systemic change in the way that tourism is managed. This includes working with tourism businesses, destination authorities and community groups. LEARN MORE
Harvard International Sustainable Tourism InitiativeWe train current and future leaders to rigorously evaluate and enhance the way our surroundings affect our health. As the travel and tourism industry reaches nearly eleven percent of the global economy with accelerating growth rates and strong economic upswings worldwide, the time is now to explore how each of its vibrant sectors—including cruise lines, hotels, tour operators, and aviation—represent an opportunity to manage the industry’s transformative footprint on the planet. LEARN MORE
Cornell Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program
New business models are needed to recognize the costs and impact of tourism on critical assets. STAMP is a program launched by the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business which seeks to support the development of applied research, curriculum resources, and outreach activities that will increase collective knowledge and understanding of how to more effectively manage tourism destination assets over time in the face of endemic poverty, ecosystem degradation, and climate change. LEARN MORE
