Recent years have brought the IPCC report on climate change warning we have only until 2030 to slash carbon emissions and limit catastrophe, a devastating report on the UK’s 2020 biodiversity targets, the rise of pressure groups such as Extinction Rebellion, and seemingly endless headlines about the phenomenon of overtourism.
Yet it still feels as though the wider tourism industry fails to recognise that we are facing an emergency, or the severity of the problems it has itself served to exacerbate.
