Flight Free Australia: Choosing Your Next Holiday
https://events.humanitix.com/choosing-your-next-holidayThe ever-growing burden of tourism on people, places, and the atmosphere has exploded into view this year. Barcelona has seen AirBnB protests, Venice charges admission fees, while the industry pumps out 5 gigatons of pollution each year. Australian resorts are under-serviced, with housing pressures on worker and tourist alike. Packaged, fly-by-night “travel experiences” produce endless frustration.
So what if we abandon the bucket list traps in favour of more thoughtful travel, closer to home, or one place at a time? And what of the new possibilities when our “dream destination” is a world we’ve left better than the way we found it?
Aims:
Flight Free Australia’s upcoming panel discussion focuses on changing attitudes to tourism. It features grounded tourists who have experienced the charming small places they travel through, as well as their shock at overblown mass tourism destinations. They welcome a local researcher studying degrowth and the potential for Australian tourism, and they summarise the year in aviation greenwashing. 2024 saw a billion dollars set aside for fantastical aviation fuels, no targets for aviation emissions reduction from our federal government, and an airport expansion for Melbourne with no regard for our climate.
They aim to demonstrate how people can travel – and are travelling – without the massive carbon burden of aviation emissions. Beyond this, we want to show how we can walk more lightly on local places, and what a truly sustainable model of tourism might look like.
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