Regenerative tourism
by design
Regenerative tourism
by design
OUR TEAM
OUR TEAM
Let's Transform How We Connect, Host and Experience Place
EXPLORE HOW THE TOURISM COLAB AND PLACE ECOLOGIES ARE DRIVING REGENERATIVE CHANGE
WHAT IS THE
TOURISM COLAB?
The Tourism CoLab is an online education platform and community of practice for changemakers interested in place-based regenerative development. It is where we connect people all over the world who are activating change in their places and communities. It's also where we host our global online courses, building the skills and capacities of leaders to imagine and activate regenerative futures!
The Tourism CoLab is a social enterprise, which means all profits get re-invested back into achieving our purpose. Our purpose is to redesign tourism by helping to transition it from an extractive and exploitative activity to one that genuinely contributes to the regeneration of places, people, and nature.
Imagine the power of people coming together across the globe to share their insights and experience in shifting towards a regenerative approach! By unlearning and unleashing our curiosity and creativity, we can reframe the challenges we face. We believe in the power of new ideas, neurodiversity, lived experience, and local and alternative knowledge that bubbles up through our CoLab conversations.
Join us and see how different tourism education can be!
WHAT IS
PLACE ECOLOGIES?
Place Ecologies is our hands-on practice ground where we collaborate with communities ready to reimagine their relationship with social and economic development. Through deep engagement, mentoring and coaching, we support local changemakers to develop their own regenerative place-based pathways.
Born from communities' growing needs, Place Ecologies works directly at the local level to nurture systems change. We use living systems principles as our guide, ensuring that knowledge, capabilities and experience remain within the community. Our approach empowers places to chart their own future, guided by local wisdom and living systems principles.
OUR STORY
Like a tree growing from seed, the Tourism CoLab took root in 2018 with a deep belief in tourism's power to connect traveller, communities, and nature. We saw how travel, when thoughtfully cultivated, could transform our relationship with the planet and help us find our place in a rapidly changing world. Tourism isn't just business—it's an intricate ecosystem where people, places and possibilities interweave.
From these roots, we've grown in two naturally intertwined threads: Our global learning community has flourished into a canopy of connection, linking changemakers, innovators and disruptors who see the potential to nurture the potential of place. Like a mycorrhizal network in a forest, our community shares knowledge, nurtures new ideas, and supports those already creating change. Through professional education, learning journeys and collaborative projects, we help transform places from extraction to regeneration.
Place Ecologies has emerged like new growth seeking the soil, drawing us back to our roots in community development, environmental planning and place identity. It's about putting tourism back into its broader context. Here, we work directly with local communities and organisations, nurturing experimental projects and innovative approaches. Like a healthy ecosystem, learning from our practice grounds is always part of what we do, and being able to share that energy back in a circular system through the CoLab learning experiences helps us nurture the soil for others.