On November 16 and 17 the 2017 Travel+SocialGood Global Summit will be held in New York City. This event will be a perfect opportunity to discuss how tourism can be an engine for community development around the world.
The travel industry represents 10% of global GDP and employs 1 in 11 people globally. Yet on average, only a small fraction of what is spent by travelers remains in the countries visited.
The tourism industry possesses the power to impact every issue our global community faces. There is an immense amount of potential to harness the energy of the travelling community and transform it into a true positive impact.
Now in its fourth year, the 2017 Travel+SocialGood Global Summit will draw together 150 innovators in the travel industry to collectively tackle a single issue facing the travel industry. Youth tourism is poised to play a major role in moving the industry forward.
With his experience of community development and sustainability in youth tourism, Joël Marier of EBI Consulting has the privilege of being one of the 150 invitees. Joël is interested in social economy and, more broadly, in social innovation. Responsible and sustainable tourism has been one of his fields of work for many years. He looks forward to learning from his colleagues and sharing best practices and case studies where youth tourism helped revitalize communites around the world
Backed by a rapidly growing community of 10,000 changemakers in the TSG community, now is the time to push forward with a collective vision. The United Nations has declared 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism (IY2017) in conjunction with the Global Goals, an ambitious set of targets set to help solve some of the world’s most pressing issues by 2030. The TSG Global Summit is an official IY2017 partner event.
We look to the Global Goals as inspiration for the issues the travel industry can help to solve, and hope the TSG Summit will inspire radical change throughout the tourism sector to help achieve these goals through both innovative business practices and consumer behaviour.
