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Climate Hub

Welcome to Skift’s Climate Hub, where solutions-based journalism cuts through industry spin to spotlight real progress in travel sustainability. In partnership with Intrepid Travel, Skift’s editorial team will evaluate environmental claims, highlight meaningful advancements, and hold the travel sector accountable. This independent initiative brings rigorous reporting to the forefront and pushes the industry to meet the moment in the face of growing scrutiny from travelers and stakeholders alike.

Tourism

Peru’s Challenge to Build Tourism Outside the Shadows of Machu Picchu

Peru has done a lot in terms of diversifying its tourism industry, but a stronger emphasis on a unified vision for tourism is still needed. If governments don’t start prioritizing tourism — which has far-reaching impacts on other industries, the environment, and the lives of locals — we’re going to lose critical parts of history that help explain who we are and how we got here.
Rebecca Stone | 6 years ago
Business Travel

Destinations Push Green Credentials to Entice Luxury Travelers

While many destinations are upping their sustainability game, a few are actually actively promoting it as a way to attract higher-end visitors. Monaco and Slovenia are trying to prove that selling green will positively color tourism perceptions ... and revenues.
Laura Powell | 6 years ago
Skift Originals

Japan's Naoshima Island: A Portrait of Possibility for Art Tourism

Ever since Naoshima, Japan, became home to a number of contemporary art museums, sculptures, and installations, the island's identity as an "art island" has become intertwined with its history and culture. Naoshima now represents a way for other destinations to think about how tourism, and art tourism specifically, can be used to revitalize communities while preserving tradition and demonstrating respect to heritage.
Rebecca Stone | 6 years ago
Tourism

Tourism For Good: How Chiang Mai Is Showing the Way

Tourism isn't perfect, but sometimes its mission can be. Four projects in northern Thailand are dedicated to creating more sustainable livelihoods for locals, preserving customs and traditions, and developing better conservation efforts for elephants. This is the good that tourism can do.
Rebecca Stone | 6 years ago
Meetings

Events Know They Have a Waste Problem

Sustainability is more than a gimmick; the wider meetings and events sector is in the midst of reducing its impact on the environment while providing attendees with a more balanced and less wasteful experience.
Andrew Sheivachman | 6 years ago
Tourism

Florida Extends Tourism Boost to Gulf Coast Locales Hurt by Red Tide

Much of Florida's beaches remain pristine and algae-free and other parts of the state are seeing a boost as tourists relocate their vacations. This year's red tide is the latest wake-up call to climate change that the state's tourism industry has had to grapple with.
Dan Peltier | 6 years ago
Tourism

A New Generation Must Bridge Hanoi's Past to Its Tourism Future

Hanoi's economy is improving considerably, and tourism is growing, but for Vietnam's capital city to best position itself to develop as a responsible tourism destination, a change in mindset must occur. And that change needs to come from the young Vietnamese of today.
Rebecca Stone | 6 years ago