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Destination Stewardship: Drive Sustainability, Economic Renewal, and Cultural Integrity
Tonya Fitzpatrick
Tourism creates jobs and opportunity, but growth is not responsible if residents bear costs, lose cultural identity, or have little voice in decisions shaping their communities. Destination Stewardship shows how to change that. It gives tourism leaders and policymakers practical governance tools to make residents partners in decision-making, keep more visitor spending local, strengthen local ownership, reinvest tourism revenue in communities, protect culture and nature, and measure success by community well-being—not volume alone. It challenges travelers to rethink how they show up in someone else’s home: where they spend, whose stories they honor and what they leave behind. Destination Stewardship Center founder Jonathan Tourtellot titled his review “The First True Book on Destination Stewardship.” The book turns stewardship into a roadmap for responsible tourism growth that advances local agency, cultural integrity, shared prosperity and places worth living in as well as visiting.
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Regenerative Tourism and Hospitality: Building a Resilient and Positive Impact-Led Travel Industry
Amanda Ho
Regenerative Tourism and Hospitality is a strategic guide for senior leaders in travel, tourism, and hospitality who want to align profitability with purpose and deliver proven results for business, community, and planet. Combining real-world examples with global best practice, it provides the frameworks, steps and tools for designing regenerative strategies that strengthen both organizational performance and destination resilience.