The Travel Foundation has partnered with Cornell University and EplerWood International to analyse how the more damaging impacts of tourism?s rapid growth can be better understood and managed globally.
The two organisations will be releasing a report in March which shows that destinations across the world are not prepared for the unprecedented demands this has placed on them, leading to reports of overtourism. With growth set to continue exponentially, reaching 1.8 billion tourists by 2030, a global crisis could be looming.
The report suggests that, wherever it exists, tourism places an ?invisible burden? on destinations and their residents.
This burden leaves inadequate revenue to provide a sustainable foundation to manage the rapid growth of tourism worldwide. The authors explore innovations in policy and finance to manage the ?invisible burden? of tourism. It makes a case for public-private cooperation in the design of data-driven mechanisms for managing, monitoring and financing destinations worldwide.
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