Tourism: Elke Dens

Regenerative Change Agents - a podcast about people improving the world.

In the first season we hear from amazing women, regenerative change agents, who are paving the way towards a new way of living in the world by using tourism as a catalyst to spread the regenerative mindset and practices around our globe.

In this episode with Elke Dens we dive into the transformative power of tourism experiences to change people’s mindset and practices. Elke brings some great insights and lived experience with world war one as a tourism experience in Flanders and her own journey in regeneration, systems thinking and all the potential of places and communities. We dived into the increasingly important role of companies and marketeers and their needed change in focus towards transparency and responsibility. The capacity building she does with Place Generation is amazing, so make sure to check it out in the show notes! 

Elke Dens is the founder of Place Generation, which is a global team of senior professionals with deep, strategic, expertise, a regenerative mindset, first-hand knowledge of the intricacies of destination management organisations (DMO's), an understanding of the policies of places and experience with communities. Elke is an advisor for the Travel Foundation, but from a regenerative perspective most well known for her work on Travel to Tomorrow: a vision on the regenerative future of tourism and travel in Flanders. 

Connect: Elke Dens | LinkedIn
Website: Place Generation
Book: Toerisme is dood, leve de reiziger

Resources
The Travel Foundation
Travel to Tomorrow
Global Destination Movement
The Tourism CoLab

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This podcast is created by Charles van de Kerkhof with technical support and jingle by Joran de Block.