We believe tourism isn’t an industry — it’s a living system.
It connects people, cultures, landscapes, and futures. When led by communities and cultivated with care, tourism restores what matters most:
relationships, resilience, and reciprocity.
At the heart of this vision is the Roots & Resilience: Regenerative (R³) Tourism Framework — a living, dynamic approach grounded in Living-Centred Design. It empowers communities to lead, shape, and co-create tourism in partnership with nature, local custodians, industry, and government. Born from a PhD and close collaboration with the Bruny Island community, this framework flips the traditional top-down model, growing instead from the ground up — rooted in wisdom, nurtured by place, and designed to regenerate culture, ecosystems, and community futures.
A living framework co-created with communities to shape resilient, regenerative tourism — rooted in wisdom, alive to place, and responsive to change. Our R³ Framework will be launching soon, to support communities in growing tourism on their terms,
for holistic, lasting and net-positive impact.
Our philosophy shifts tourism beyond human-centred thinking, cultivating conditions for all life to thrive. When tourism becomes a living system, people, nature, culture and experiences flourish. Our approach guides choices that replenish ecosystems, restore culture, and renew our role as guardians of place.
If you’re a community, collective, or place with a vision beyond sustainability — we’d love to connect. Living Tourism works alongside communities, co-creating place-based tourism that evolves our framework. Together, let's use tourism to regenerate, build and grow thriving destinations, people and places.
Soon, we'll be sharing stories, voices, and visions from communities, cultures, and changemakers from around the world. Like mycelium beneath the forest floor, our conversations will weave wisdom and ideas to nourish, connect, and spark regenerative thinking and action — all rooted in passion and possibility.
Your guide to moving through the world with conscious care and connection.
Living Tourism invites us to travel in a way that is more mindful, deeply connected, and restorative by nature. Guided by this compass for regenerative travel, these 9 elements help us move from extractive habits to a path of renewal. Helping us move with care and connect with purpose, leaving a legacy of thriving people and places in our wake for generations to come.
Reimagine visiting → participating
Root rushing through → rooting down
Respect follow crowds → follow community
Responsibility observing → co-stewarding
Replenish extracting → contributing
Relate transactions → relationships
Ranger guest → guardian protector of place
Rewild leaving footprints → planting seeds
Rekindle selfies → meaningful stories
Co-creating a future where tourism regenerates people, places and planet
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we live, work, play and learn. We pay our respects to their elders, past, present, and emerging, and extend that respect to all Indigenous peoples who contribute to the ongoing stewardship of planet earth.
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