Circular Tourism Capitalising Ecosystems
MaCT – 2019/2020 / Internet of Cities
Faculty: Mathilde Marengo, Edouard Cabay
Students: Alejandro Quinto, Jochen Morandell, Linara Salikhova, Akshay Marsute
Have you ever wonder how population consume ecosystems? New ways of tourism are appearing and with it new hazards towards earth ecosystems. How is the impact and relationships between humans and nature, how do we consume air, water and how do we disturb wildlife? This research has led us to analyse this impact using open data in the most remote continent, Antarctica, where tourism has been growing dramatically over the last years. After a profound research different strategies has been applied on the territory to deal with issues like CO2 production, wildlife disturbance and tourism footprint. A glimpse of new tourism is proposed, where tourism industries and tourist individuals become reactivators of the ecosystems, transforming the way we consume these and towards an idealised Circular Tourism.
The question is how we can jump from linear consumption to the circular one? How we can achieve the goal that tourist as individual and tourism as industry work in a circular way? Is it possible to use tourism as an activator of the delicate ecosystem?