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Meaningful Tourism Weekly is an independent publication launched in 2025 by the Meaningful Tourism Centre. The Executive Director Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt FRGS FRAS is the Chief Editor.

The increasingly severe consequences of the climate catastrophe are threatening traditional business models from beach holidays to city strolls and disrupt spatial and temporal structures. A holistic approach, taking into account the benefits and satisfaction of all stakeholders is no longer a luxury, but a necessary tool for the implementation of a successful sustainable development to secure the adaptation and survival of companies, organisations and destinations and to help at least slow down global warming and loss of biodiversity.

In the Meaningful Tourism Weekly you find an Editorial, written by the editor, covering each week a different aspect of the Meaningful Tourism paradigm and reflecting on a personal level on the current and future development of tourism and hospitality.

Also provided are news about the activities of the Meaningful Tourism Centre including trainings and implementation support projects. Further, each issue is presenting a Best Practice example of Meaningful Tourism from around the world.

The team of the Meaningful Tourism Centre is introduced week by week with a short portrait of one of the certified Meaningful Tourism Transformational Game Workshops trainers. Occasionally, we will have the pleasure of inviting important thought leaders in the field of sustainability to add op-ed texts.

These original texts are supplemented by Meaningful Tourism news, carefully selected items from our friends, partners and colleagues, including articles, posts, podcasts and videos, sorted in line with the six main stakeholders of tourism and hospitality, as defined by the Meaningful Tourism paradigm: Traveller/Guests, Host community, employees in tourism and hospitality service providers, service-providing companies, governments and the environment. A link to the original source always leads to the full item.

Finally, the Meaningful Tourism Weekly also includes information about relevant future events including conferences, workshops, and webinars.

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