Webinar #4 | 12th May 2025 | “How can tourism be more nature positive through regenerative approaches?”
Regenerative approaches to tourism: managing footprints and maximising the potential of nature-positive tourism
As part of the WeNaTour webinar series, the fourth session titled “How can tourism be more nature positive through regenerative approaches?” was delivered on May 12th, featuring presentations on the vital relationship between tourism and nature, approaches to supporting biodiversity, measuring environmental impacts, and nature-positive approaches for tourism destinations.
Are you taking part in the WeNaTour E-learning Course? We encourage you to download and use this reflection template to start capturing your key learning points from the webinar. This and other resources will also be available on our dedicated e-learning platform.
Key Takeaways
Here are some of the key lessons shared in the webinar and important takeaways.
- Tourism relies on nature’s resources and ecosystems, for various systems within destinations, for tourist activities, and many goods and services that are needed for them. That’s why tourism’s direct and indirect relationships with nature is an essential part of sustainable management of destinations.
- Tourism has important opportunities to become part of a nature-positive economy, supporting local and global goals for restoring ecosystems, supporting wildlife habitats, preventing biodiversity decline, and even positively contributing to a more regenerative future of our regions.
- Policy solutions and destination practices that support nature-positive outcomes include:
- Financing environmental protection and channeling resources through mechanisms such as parks and protected areas.
- Creating opportunities for local stakeholders as well as visitors to connect with nature, encouraging them to become advocates for biodiversity conservation.
- Engaging travelers and the general public through education on species protection and responsible business practices.
- Supporting and directly investing in local projects that help restore ecosystems and strengthen carbon storage capacities.
- Destinations also need long-term transformative actions to promote systems-wide change for valuing nature and measuring progress beyond the existing metrics addressing the status quo.
This webinar has been developed and delivered by:
- Ayako Ezaki (TrainingAid)
- Federica Bosco (Etifor | Valuing Nature)
- Lilia Schmalzl (Carinthia University of Applied Sciences)
- Filippo De Agostini (San Vigilio di Marebbe)
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Additional Details
The webinar series is part of the WeNaTour e-Learning Programme, and the students enrolled in our course will have access to all the proceedings of each webinar, including the video recordings, presentation slides, and follow-up Q&A. In addition to the lessons shared via the webinar, there will be further resources, examples and tools to help you improve your skills.
Enrollment is free and open to any students or professionals interested in learning about sustainable tourism and destination management practices incorporating welfare, nature and innovation in tourism.
To learn more about the e-learning offer and to enrol, please click here.
Discover the case study
The destination example by Nassfeld Lesachtal Weissensee (Austria) has also been shared as a WeNaTour case study, take a look!
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Each session is organized by Etifor | Valuing Nature and TrainingAid and features speakers from organisations including Etifor, SanoTouring, Transilvania University of Brasov, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Nature Tourism Development and Destination Management Organizations like Valsugana Lagorai (Italy), Garda Trentino (Italy), Nassfeld Lesachtal Weißensee (Austria), San Vigilio di Marebbe (Italy).
Full programme at this link
