Futures of Tourism

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.

In this fourth of five online events, we will ask what the future may hold for tourism. Join the Urgent Situation team (see below) plus Martha Thorne, Dean of IE School of Architecture and Design and Former Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2005–2021) together with Andrew Holden, Professor of Environment and Tourism at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Sophia Bazile, Foresight Practitioner and Conference Co-Director at Asia Pacific Futures Network (APFN) to examine what is at stake. When architects, artists and tourism providers contribute to the creation of tourist destinations, what should their key considerations be?

The event will include a short presentation by each panellist followed by a panel discussion moderated by David Cross, an artist and Reader at University of the Arts London (UAL), and audience Q&A.

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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.




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