This document outlines Dr. Sara Barrento's work developing a workshop for tour guides on science communication and transformative tourism. The workshop aims to promote more sustainable tourism practices through critical reflection on tourist experiences. It also seeks to create novel job opportunities in ecological restoration. While the original summer workshop did not occur, Dr. Barrento believes digital technologies could help reconnect tourists with nature. She proposes having a conversation with various tourism stakeholders to develop a transformative tourism framework workshop in the future.

1. LandCare
conversations
for Tour Guides
Dr Sara Barrento
Swansea University
Biosciences Department
s.i.barrento@swansea.ac.uk

2. Swansea
tourism
is responsible for the
greatest, annual
human migration
in history
SantiagoBudeanu, 2005

3. TOURISM
1.323 billion
arrivals in 2017
1.323.000
UNWTO

4. "the activities of persons
traveling to and staying in
places outside their usual
environment for not more than
one consecutive year for leisure,
business and other purposes."
TOURISM

5. “We travel to open our
hearts and eyes and learn
more about the world than
our newspapers will
accommodate”.
Pico Lyer

6. Dr Sara Barrento…
Undergraduates
Master
PhDBlended Learning
Field trip to aquaculture business
Research driven teaching
saraBarrento©

7. My first job in 2004
looked like this …

8. Can we feed the
dolphins? a visitor asked

9. Can we feed the
dolphins? a visitor asked
while showing a
bag full of these
delicious… ?

10. Can we feed the
dolphins? a visitor asked
| bread

11. Mismatch between the
visitor expectations and
the tourism provider

12. 1. Dolphin watch
2. Visiting a Zoo
3. Visiting an aquarium
Three different tourism
experiences:

13. In 2018 I visited Mozambique and
did several tours … as a tourist.
Picture by Sara Barrento

14. Illustration by João Fazenda

16. “The 2nd half of the 20th century
produced the "me" generation, or a
time when people started to assume
that the world revolved around them,
rather than the other way round.”
the “selfie” generation
Gillian Tett

17. “wefindourselves
over-connected at a
shallow level andunder-
connectedatadeeper,more
meaningful level”
The Transformational Travel Council
Illustration by João Fazenda

18. Can you develop
a summer workshop?

19. Science
Communication
for Tour Guides
Illustration by João Fazenda

20. Summer
Workshop for
tour guides Blended learning
Pictures by Sara Barrento

21. Started to frame
the workshop
around learning
objectives and
outcomes…
learning design
Transformative
learning theory

22. Transformative
Learning Theory
Jack Mezirow (1978)
The learner must
engage in critical
reflection on their
experiences, which in
turn leads to a
perspective
transformation.
Transformative
Power of Tourism
TOURISM as
transformative
MEDIUM to promote
sustainable practices
and more conscious
living on our planet.
World Tourism Organization

24. “The overall objective of LANDCARE FOR
THE FUTURE is to improve educational and
training capacities in relation
to Ecological Restoration. “
Pictures by Sara Barrento

25. “This is necessary to preserve our
environment and also to fulfil the
demands of an emerging labour market
and create novel job opportunities”
Pictures by Sara Barrento
tour guide

26. the summer workshops
didn’t happen…
But this is not the end of the story
In the end

27. How can we use digital technology
to re-connect tourists to nature?
Crucible funding
humans at the heart
of technology
Illustration by João Fazenda

28. Maybe we should
have a
CONVERSATION

29. (a) talk between two or
more people in which
thoughts, feelings, and
ideas are expressed,
questions are asked and
answered, or news and
iinformation is exchanged
Cambridge English dictionary
Maybe we should
have a
CONVERSATION

30. transformative tourism
framework workshop
the tourists
tourism providers
professional networks
associations
foundations

31. Pictures by Sara Barrento

32. Gracias
Obrigada
ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΩ
Grazie
Merci
Danke
Thank you
s.i.barrento@swansea.ac.uk
Dr Sara Barrento
Swansea University
Illustration by João Fazenda