Smart Tourism: How to Be a Smart Tourist | Kristin Weis | TEDxHerndon

As tourists, we have a relationship with the places that we visit. Kristin Weis invites us to evaluate this relationship, looking specifically at coastal areas. By adjusting how we view ourselves and the places we visit, we are able to leave a more positive impact and become Smart Tourists.
Kristin Weis is a coastal management and peacebuilding researcher and strategist. Her work aims to improve how we use and conserve the natural environment. As a graduate student at the University Centre of the Westfjords in Iceland, her current research explores how tourism affects social and ecological resilience in Dominica. She is the founder of Roskanet, a "smart tourism" project, as she fondly calls it, that aims to help shape tourism models to both benefit local communities and conserve their surrounding natural world. Her Environmental Migration Workshop helps international peacebuilding professionals create resilient responses to climate change threats, including rising sea levels and coastal damage from more intense, more frequent storms. Her workshop is held at the Just Governance for Human Security forum in Switzerland. Her efforts continue to address human mobility issues (such as environmental migration and coastal tourism trends) and international instability issues related to climate change.
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[@HongCarra]

Really thoughtful. Thanks Kristin. If everyone is more conscious about protecting the environment and supporting local community, we don't have to worry about overtourism anymore.

[@ArabTourismEgyptianpharaoh]

We love tourism and will work hard to stimulate tourism

[@fadlijax1407]

I just watched this video, in 2021.. and really good video as the mindset and ideas is brilliant.. and I guess everybody should know about this in order to make us realize that how important our environment is. Thank you Kristin Weis.

[@nozomi6703]

her voice sounds going to cry in a sec,

[@XKEEPS]

Lol

[@lennyontour7699]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts/work! There are a lot of ways how we can enjoy travel more, while beeing kinder to others and the planet, i think that will be a future mindset of a lot of travelers!

[@ritasrimustikasari]

Thank you.

[@ArabTourismEgyptianpharaoh]

Greetings to you from Cairo, Egypt. Arab Tourism Channel

[@user-ie8mj7ll4q]

Great 👏 Its so helpful

[@ethelinteo6288]

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[@mohamedessadki93]

ï was searching about relation between smart cities and tourist, than i found myself discovering what's smart touriste :)

[@CentersmarttourismKzAla]

Smart Tourism allows you to travel independently from travel agencies, without learning foreign languages, without guides, interpreters and maps. Also, Smart Tourism allows possible travel paper free. All tourist's papers must be in smartphone or cloud.

[@baunfux1239]

Trabalho de inglês B)

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Kkkkkkk mas que coincidência

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Hee hee airplane go Fwoooooosh

[@dylanloayzaalcedo5701]

alguno del salon del icpna pts 1 somos turistas 2 el enviroment 3 las personas animales etc 4 no esteotipos

[@allanbarsness6076]

Interesting,Kristin Weis

[@mitulpatel8462]

Good thought

[@moein671]

How nervous is she!!!!

[@jahson3510]

I commend her for facing her fear. Not everyone is that brave.

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Do not press 👍 cuz itʼs beautiful now😂

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