The Meaningful Tourism paradigm starts from the insight that a sustainable tourism development can only be achieved by creating a holistic approach which provides and measures benefits and satisfaction by the way tourism is organised for all six major stakeholders of tourism and hospitality.
The six major stakeholders identified for tourism and hospitality are:
The negative results of climate change are certain to increase in severity in the coming decades. Whatever action is taken from now on is necessary to try to slow down and mitigate the process, however, the world has reached tourism peak and needs a new paradigm on how to develop, measure and react to extreme weather events, rising sea levels and temperatures combined with protests by local communities, shortages of staff willing to work in the industry and decreases in biodiversity.
Meaningful Tourism is offering such a paradigm as a development of the concepts of sustainable and responsible tourism, based on a holistic approach and positive psychology and meant to provide a practical tool to implement measurable benefits and satisfaction of all stakeholders through alignment of interests instead of compromises.
The Meaningful Tourism paradigm has been developed by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt FRGS FRAS, based on more than four decades of experience in tourism development. Started in 2021 as a reaction to the overtourism debates and the global pandemic, the Meaningful Tourism Centre as a non-profit organisation based in the UK and in Nepal offers practical tools for destinations, companies and organisations to implement a Meaningful Tourism strategy helping to fight climate change as well as making sure it’s own economic survival in the coming decades.
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