The Tourism CoLab Information

The Tourism CoLab was founded in response to the need to drive real, sustainable systems change in tourism. We bring innovative, hands-on project experience, deep thinking and creativity to redesigning tourism for places, communities and nature. Our distinguishing feature is that we are environmental planners, community engagement specialists and educators and coaches iand have worked in tourism policy and development from local to global levels. We energise and inspire, and seek to unlock the creative genius of local communities, the resilience and tenacity of SMEs, and the innovation borne out of creative thinking and co-design. As a capacity-building social enterprise, our mission is to build systems change through education, curating community-led conversations, and helping businesses innovate within their businesses and ecosystems. We specialise in systems change, redesigning systems, creative thinking and problem solving. - supporting and activating communities - [un]learning so we can think differently - futures thinking, policy research and analysis - community engagement and co-design - tourism organisation [re]design - place identity, place-making and stewardship actions - tourism education, training and coaching -regenerative tourism -collaborative economy -digitalisation and tourism SMEs We work with tourism organisations, governments, communities and business networks to build capacity, co-design and activate destinations, tourism organisations and visitor economies for regenerative, inclusive and sustainable futures.