Tourism: Loretta Bellato

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 Dr Loretta Bellato we explore regenerative development in general and specifically applied in the tourism phenomena. We dive into Loretta’s journey through tourism, regenerative development and academia, focussing on learning and co-evolving through the patterns of being, knowing and doing. Loretta provided us with a whole list of extra resources, but for me the resource number one is still her work on regenerative development within tourism, so if you haven’t read her work yet, enjoy her insights and explanations in this episode and make sure to check out the show notes and dive into all her writings!

Dr Loretta Bellato is a regenerative development & tourism researcher and a community practitioner committed to contributing to transformations that promote health and wellbeing of places and communities. She is the first to have conducted a PhD on regenerative tourism, where she investigated tourism's contributions towards regenerating urban places and communities. Loretta has an ongoing interest and active commitment to regenerative development approaches involving tourism and delivering outstanding community programs.

Connect: Loretta Bellato | LinkedIn
Website: Google Scholar

Resources
Regenesis videos on Regenerative Development
Regenesis video on Working With Potential (part 3)
Loretta Bellato short article: Is ‘regenerative tourism’ just a rebranding of ‘sustainable tourism’?
Regenerative Practitioner series
Regenesis Group
Carol Sandford
Camina Sostenible
Conscious Travel - Anna Pollock
Regeneration Projects – Matt Sykes

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