Sonu Shivdasani, Chairman and CEO, Six Senses Resorts and Spas; Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director, Forum for the Future; Mohamed Aslam, Minister for Housing and Environment, Government of the Maldives; Edward Norton, Film-Maker and President of the Board of Trustees, Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust
Edward Norton asks the question: The tourism industry has become extremely attuned to the narrative of sustainable tourism. Have they embraced just the narrative or also the practice? Tourism is an extractive industry, and like any other extractive industry, it runs a substantial risk of destroying the natural resource capital it is based on.
The panelists were talking at the SLOW LIFE Symposium, an annual event to address increased sustainability and environmental protection in the travel and tourism industry.
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