Tourism is implicated in and impacted by global Climate Change. It is a major public health vector, impacting residents, visitors, and ecosystems. The most vulnerable places are often the most beautiful ones, like unique and beautiful environments, historic city centers, cultural relics, and agriculturally rich places. Over-tourism is a global phenomenon due to current practices of un-advanced tourism planning, design, and development worldwide. Tourism planning and design requires interconnected systems—natural systems, built systems, cultural, economic, transportation, and infrastructure—all thinking as one. Advancing tourism requires geodesign. We have been teaching resident design studio courses and, more recently, an online course using map-based collaborative planning and design processes. Small groups and role-playing enable students to become stakeholders and assess the impacts that cover a range of visual, ecological, economic, and socio-cultural systems. The results are encouraging, and a sustainable regenerative tourism industry may yet be possible thanks to using geodesign.
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