The Past and Present: Key factors in the travel industry

Travel and tourism can be forces for good: opening minds, building understanding, creating jobs, supporting social development and motivating authorities to invest in conservation. However, tourism’s negative effects - environmental, economic, social, political, cultural - are also undeniable and long before the outbreak of Covid-19 have been driving industry reflection on the ethos and practices of tourism. Climate crisis, pandemic risk, legacies of colonialism and damage caused by over-tourism cannot be ignored. For a growing number of providers, “business as usual” is no longer an option.

This first of five online events will ask foundational questions. What does it mean to be a tourist? What trends have developed in recent years within the travel sector? What challenges does the industry now face? We invite you to join the Urgent Situation team (see below) plus Amy Skelding, Senior Partner at Finn Partners’ the Brighter group, Kirsi Suomi, Project Coordinator at Sámi Tourism Visitor Guidance, and Ketut Karya, Co-Founder and Director of Samong Haven, to interrogate the travel industry’s past practices, present trends and future needs and obligations.

The event will include a short presentation by each panellist followed by a discussion moderated by PRAKSIS Founder and Director Nicholas Jones and audience Q&A.

This online event and will take place via the Zoom communication platform. The meeting space will be open from a little before 14.00 CEST. Please click here to join. (Meeting ID: 831 2705 2928 and Passcode: 253169)

An Urgent Situation: Rethinking Tourism through Architecture, Arts and Community is developed together with Don Lawrence Architect, Rebel Architecture Lab, artist Tanja Thorjussen and Samong Haven. For more information about the project please click here.




The project is supported by