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The aviation call to action
Aviation is the Achilles heel of sustainable tourism. It accounts for 52% of direct global tourism emissions. For…
Space – the fraught frontier
Space tourism is back in the news following the all-female Blue Origin space mission on 15th April. That…
Forests and sustainable tourism
While on holiday in Central Otago in January, my wife Linda and I climbed Ben Lomond, the peak…
Banning fossil fuel ads – and other ‘stabilisation wedges’
It is hard to reconcile climate change and climate denial when you are regularly exposed to new research…
Tourism and the war on science
We live in chaotic and turbulent times. I don’t know quite where to begin with the two weeks…
Back to Pre-COVID levels of tourism – but what happened to the post-COVID tourism re-set?
Last week marked five years since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in New Zealand. In the…
Tourism Growth – how much is too much?
My return to work this year coincided with several tourism announcements from the New Zealand government. Its announcements…
Measuring global tourism emissions – a starting point for action
Last week on Wednesday our paper on global tourism emissions was finally published online. It was a long…
Wealth and tourism – should we be targeting only the richest tourists?
There is a longstanding debate in sustainable tourism, as to the tourist markets that are most worthy of…
Hyper-Mobility or the End of the Road?
Can we travel without contributing to climate change? The answer is yes, we can, but to arrive at…