Seven ‘deeper leverage points’ for travel & tourism’s effective climate action

Academics Johanna Loehr and Susanne Becken offer an executive summary of “Leverage points to address climate change risk in destinations”; their paper recently published by Tourism Geographies.

It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight.

The latest science is clear. Climate action needs to step up drastically.

This also affects tourism. As we have seen at the Glasgow COP26, the tourism sector is beginning to grapple with climate change as a significant factor in its future.

However, whilst the need for change is sinking in, the magnitude of the change is not.

This is not uncommon. Humans always tend to address small things instead of tackling the more fundamental ones.

Some might call this window-dressing. For others it is everyday psychology. We go for low-hanging fruit first, incremental change or nudging, rather than completely redesigning the system (or ourselves).

This has long been recognised in the concept of ‘leverage points’ developed by Donella Meadows 20 years ago ... Continue reading this "Good Tourism" Insight in full and for free at https://goodtourismblog.com/2022/01/seven-deeper-leverage-points-for-travel-tourisms-effective-climate-action/. There are many more like it at https://GTBlog.com.