Green Tourism Forum

1. The Sustainability Challenge: Implications for Tourism Green Tourism Forum II April 22, 2008, Vancouver

5. Enormous Possibilities

6. Deep Change

7. Deep Change

8. We’re at the fork in the road Tourism Doesn’t Operate in Isolation!

9. It’s Time for Some Truth Telling

10. Words Are Losing Their meaning

13. So this is Home We’ve only one! If you throw something away – where is away? A growing sense of limits Growing uncertainty stemming from complexity Small actions in remote places can have large and unpredictable consequences

14. We’ve Only One Home! BUT……..

15. But we Need Three to Support Our Current Population & Lifestyle

16. The Wealthier Nations Need Five! And that’s simply not sustainable

25. So how resilient can tourism be?

26. Tourism: Code Red Alert

27. The Challenge of Volume Growth Volume Growth Emissions Reductions

28. Listen to the Wise Ones!

29. Listen to the Wise Ones! Albert’s definition of insanity as powerful as E=MC 2

30. Debunking the Myth of Sustainability Sustainable development “a process to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.” Bruntland The triple bottom line approach based on the balance of social, economic and financial factors…. as if they were equals BUT the economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment! GUEST Host community Host business Environment

31. Debunking the Myth of Sustainability Sustaining as in perpetuating won’t work! Sustaining as in More of the same won’t work In the natural world, all growth is checked – it’s about development not growth How many of your have sons?

35. Time to Change Our View Linear Mechanical – take it apart Hard/objective Subject-object – resource exploitation Cause and Effect Power concentrated Circular, complex Fuzzy, Organic – ECOLOGICAL Soft, subjective (Heisenberg) Participatory; co-evolving Emergence Power distributed

37. The Tourism System Does this remind you of something? HOST SUPPLIER SOCIETY GUEST ENVIRONMENT

42. “ Internalize the Externalities ” Pay Nature Her Due Implications of Stewardship

43. Time to Re-think the Role of Business

46. The Business Case

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