Dr. Keenan Adams is Forest Supervisor of El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico’s second most-visited place. His Puerto Rico work started after Hurricane Maria with natural and cultural resources recovery. Dr. Adams has always been fascinated with social, ecological, and technological systems and has a passion for working at the intersection of conservation, tourism, and disenfranchised communities.
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Sustainable Tourism on a Changing Planet
Creating Inclusive Destinations With Social Equity
Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 1pm EDT
Event Overview
In this series, we’re examining the challenges faced by tourism destinations today. This installment will focus on how innovators across the globe are stepping up to protect invaluable cultural, social, and natural assets while improving the quality of life for a destination’s residents.
Tourism has grown dramatically over the last 20 years, driving economic growth in many locations worldwide. Yet local businesses and communities are often left out, with little connection to the tourism economy. Can destinations and conservation areas provide tangible benefits to their communities and support the development of sustainable business? We’ll explore how sustainable tourism can reach communities, why land equity is essential to this process, and how social enterprises can link together to create inclusive global supply chains.
View the first episode in the Sustainable Tourism on a Changing Planet series: The Challenges of Transformation in a Global Industry.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DESTINATION MANAGEMENT Self-Paced Cornell Course
Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program (STAMP)
Megan’s book “Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet”
Tourism has grown dramatically over the last 20 years, driving economic growth in many locations worldwide. Yet local businesses and communities are often left out, with little connection to the tourism economy. Can destinations and conservation areas provide tangible benefits to their communities and support the development of sustainable business? We’ll explore how sustainable tourism can reach communities, why land equity is essential to this process, and how social enterprises can link together to create inclusive global supply chains.
View the first episode in the Sustainable Tourism on a Changing Planet series: The Challenges of Transformation in a Global Industry.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DESTINATION MANAGEMENT Self-Paced Cornell Course
Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program (STAMP)
Megan’s book “Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet”
What You'll Learn
- The ways in which shared value destinations are promoting social equity and the fair distribution of tourism revenue
- How sustainable livelihoods and land equity can be woven into the DNA of tourism destinations
- The efforts of conservation leaders to increase community benefits around conservation areas
Speakers
Forest Supervisor, El Yunque National Forest
Megan Epler Wood
Managing Director, Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Managing Director, Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program, Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business; and Principal, EplerWood International
Megan Epler Wood is a leader, educator, and consultant who has dedicated her professional career to the implementation of sustainability practices in the field of tourism. She has worked for over 30 years to inform leaders, students, and business professionals across the globe on the use of well-researched and sustainable business, environmental conservation, and inclusive economic development tools. As program director of the Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program (STAMP), Ms. Epler Wood seeks to increase collective knowledge and understanding of how to more effectively manage tourism destination assets over time to improve maintenance; ensure proper valuation; and help offset the influences of poverty, ecosystem degradation, climate change, land tenure, and the lack of government investment in vital local infrastructure in underdeveloped economies worldwide.
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2023-03-14 13:002023-03-14 14:00Sustainable Tourism on a Changing PlanetAdd to CalendarIn this series, we’re examining the challenges faced by tourism destinations today. This installment will focus on how innovators across the globe are stepping up to protect invaluable cultural, social, and natural assets while improving the quality of life for a destination’s residents.
Tourism has grown dramatically over the last 20 years, driving economic growth in many locations worldwide. Yet local businesses and communities are often left out, with little connection to the tourism economy. Can destinations and conservation areas provide tangible benefits to their communities and support the development of sustainable business? We’ll explore how sustainable tourism can reach communities, why land equity is essential to this process, and how social enterprises can link together to create inclusive global supply chains.
View the first episode in the Sustainable Tourism on a Changing Planet series: The Challenges of Transformation in a Global Industry.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DESTINATION MANAGEMENT Self-Paced Cornell Course
Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program (STAMP)
Megan’s book “Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet”https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K031423/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
Tourism has grown dramatically over the last 20 years, driving economic growth in many locations worldwide. Yet local businesses and communities are often left out, with little connection to the tourism economy. Can destinations and conservation areas provide tangible benefits to their communities and support the development of sustainable business? We’ll explore how sustainable tourism can reach communities, why land equity is essential to this process, and how social enterprises can link together to create inclusive global supply chains.
View the first episode in the Sustainable Tourism on a Changing Planet series: The Challenges of Transformation in a Global Industry.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DESTINATION MANAGEMENT Self-Paced Cornell Course
Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program (STAMP)
Megan’s book “Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet”https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K031423/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
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