Can tourism make peace with nature?
COVID-19 dealt a devastating blow to the global tourism industry after two decades of surging growth. In 2020, after the world went into lockdown, tourist arrivals shrank from 1.5 billion to 406 million - levels last seen 30 years ago.
Five years on, tourism numbers have roared back to near 2019 levels, and spending per visitor has surpassed it, with some countries reporting double-digit growth in tourist expenditure.
In the latest issue of The Ethical Corporation magazine we look at the challenges of balancing surging growth with the urgent need to protect and restore nature as climate impacts on the world's most precious places intensifies.