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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Sustainable Tourism on a Changing Planet
Destination Management in a Carbon-Constrained World
Thursday, July 20, 2023, 1pm EDT
Event Overview
Travel and tourism accounted for over 10% of global gross domestic product, supporting one in ten jobs worldwide in 2019. During the global pandemic, however, industry and destinations experienced one of the most dramatic downturns in its history. Many sustainable tourism advocates called for a whole new philosophy of managing tourism, focusing on regenerating local culture and ecosystems and lowering carbon emissions in efficient and inspired ways. International tourism grew 86% in the first quarter of 2023 and is expected to fully rebound, with strong summer seasons expected throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
Will governments invest in more sustainable systems for managing tourism or simply return to driving for higher and higher visitation rates? Can sustainability and regeneration efforts deliver net-positive results for local people while also lowering carbon emissions? At present, many efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are on the table, but many destinations around the world are proceeding to not only rebuild but also expand. Who is responsible for these decisions and what is the role of both the public and private sectors?
Join Megan Epler-Wood, Cornell’s sustainable travel expert, and Signe Jungersted, our guest strategic advisor and destination marketer, for a forward-thinking conversation about the future of destination management.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
Group NAO
Court Ruling Upholds Schiphol Move to Reduce Flight Capacity
Sustainable Tourism Destination Management course
Episode 1 in the Sustainable Tourism on a Changing Planet series: The Challenges of Transformation in a Global Industry
Episode 2 in the Sustainable Tourism on a Changing Planet series:
Creating Inclusive Destinations With Social Equity
Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program (STAMP)
Megan’s book “Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet”
Will governments invest in more sustainable systems for managing tourism or simply return to driving for higher and higher visitation rates? Can sustainability and regeneration efforts deliver net-positive results for local people while also lowering carbon emissions? At present, many efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are on the table, but many destinations around the world are proceeding to not only rebuild but also expand. Who is responsible for these decisions and what is the role of both the public and private sectors?
Join Megan Epler-Wood, Cornell’s sustainable travel expert, and Signe Jungersted, our guest strategic advisor and destination marketer, for a forward-thinking conversation about the future of destination management.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
Group NAO
Court Ruling Upholds Schiphol Move to Reduce Flight Capacity
Sustainable Tourism Destination Management course
Episode 1 in the Sustainable Tourism on a Changing Planet series: The Challenges of Transformation in a Global Industry
Episode 2 in the Sustainable Tourism on a Changing Planet series:
Creating Inclusive Destinations With Social Equity
Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program (STAMP)
Megan’s book “Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet”
What You'll Learn
- Insight into whether countries are accounting for carbon emissions as part of their tourism planning programs
- What we can learn from the impacts experienced in 2019, when the word “overtourism” became synonymous with poor tourism planning and overly rapid growth
- The current and future roles of destination management organizations (DMOs) in managing tourism growth
- Examples of DMOs working with smart city and infrastructure planners to determine how to lower impacts and manage growth
Speakers
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
Founding Partner, Group NAO
Signe Jungersted is a destination nerd. She is also a dynamic tourism planner and strategic advisor to destination marketing and management organizations (DMOs), with particular focus on local ownership and ensuring that tourism delivers on sustainable goals to meet local needs and values.
Ms. Jungersted is founding partner of Group NAO, which facilitates new pathways for destinations, including the exploration and introduction of more participatory and deliberative approaches to tourism and destination management, such as the Time for DMOcracy program and the Tourism Taxes by Design project on regenerative approaches to reinvestment of tourism tax revenue.
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2023-07-20 13:002023-07-20 14:00Sustainable Tourism on a Changing PlanetAdd to CalendarTravel and tourism accounted for over 10% of global gross domestic product, supporting one in ten jobs worldwide in 2019. During the global pandemic, however, industry and destinations experienced one of the most dramatic downturns in its history. Many sustainable tourism advocates called for a whole new philosophy of managing tourism, focusing on regenerating local culture and ecosystems and lowering carbon emissions in efficient and inspired ways. International tourism grew 86% in the first quarter of 2023 and is expected to fully rebound, with strong summer seasons expected throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
Will governments invest in more sustainable systems for managing tourism or simply return to driving for higher and higher visitation rates? Can sustainability and regeneration efforts deliver net-positive results for local people while also lowering carbon emissions? At present, many efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are on the table, but many destinations around the world are proceeding to not only rebuild but also expand. Who is responsible for these decisions and what is the role of both the public and private sectors?
Join Megan Epler-Wood, Cornell’s sustainable travel expert, and Signe Jungersted, our guest strategic advisor and destination marketer, for a forward-thinking conversation about the future of destination management.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
Group NAO
Court Ruling Upholds Schiphol Move to Reduce Flight Capacity
Sustainable Tourism Destination Management course
Episode 1 in the Sustainable Tourism on a Changing Planet series: The Challenges of Transformation in a Global Industry
Episode 2 in the Sustainable Tourism on a Changing Planet series:
Creating Inclusive Destinations With Social Equity
Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program (STAMP)
Megan’s book “Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet” https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K072023/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
Will governments invest in more sustainable systems for managing tourism or simply return to driving for higher and higher visitation rates? Can sustainability and regeneration efforts deliver net-positive results for local people while also lowering carbon emissions? At present, many efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are on the table, but many destinations around the world are proceeding to not only rebuild but also expand. Who is responsible for these decisions and what is the role of both the public and private sectors?
Join Megan Epler-Wood, Cornell’s sustainable travel expert, and Signe Jungersted, our guest strategic advisor and destination marketer, for a forward-thinking conversation about the future of destination management.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
Group NAO
Court Ruling Upholds Schiphol Move to Reduce Flight Capacity
Sustainable Tourism Destination Management course
Episode 1 in the Sustainable Tourism on a Changing Planet series: The Challenges of Transformation in a Global Industry
Episode 2 in the Sustainable Tourism on a Changing Planet series:
Creating Inclusive Destinations With Social Equity
Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program (STAMP)
Megan’s book “Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet” https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K072023/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
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