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Understand a place
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To understand a place

To really understand a place, you need to make a deeper connection with it. You can do so by putting all five of your senses to work separately from one another.

Resilient Destinations
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Resilient Destinations

The curated collection of stories of resilientdestinations.com focuses mostly on initiatives developing resilient tourism and ensuring a sustainable recovery.

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Vision of the future

VISITFLANDERS working on a vision for tomorrow

We want to continue to strengthen our appeal to tourists. Yet, if we are to remain successful in the future, we need to take into account many changes and uncertainties. Our starting point for formulating our vision for the future is our belief in the positive power of tourism. We need to strengthen this power to bring balance so destinations in Flanders can flourish.

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Download the magazine

For a year we, together with various partners, have thought about the transformative power of tourism for the visitor, occupant and destination. We have bundled the result of this co-creative thinking process into the magazine ‘Journey to tomorrow’.

Jan Rotmans
Jan Rotmans
Vision

The future of tourism is customisation

Dutch professor Jan Rotmans is an expert on the subject of transition management and sustainability who is much sought-after, both at home and abroad. As a ‘progressor’, he also endeavours to translate theoretical transitional science into concrete actions and advice for entrepreneurs, governments and organisations.

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The Lime, heart of a flourishing place

The tourism of tomorrow will be rooted in local communities. In neighbourhoods, villages and cities that thrive and, as a result, enjoy welcoming enthusiastic visitors. A flourishing community is very much connected to its specific place; where people work together, where visitors can feel at home and residents can nurture and share their love for the place.

Understand a place
© Kasteel Gaasbeek
Inspiration

To understand a place

To really understand a place, you need to make a deeper connection with it. You can do so by putting all five of your senses to work separately from one another.

Resilient Destinations
Inspiration

Resilient Destinations

The curated collection of stories of resilientdestinations.com focuses mostly on initiatives developing resilient tourism and ensuring a sustainable recovery.

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Learning Network

VISITFLANDERS is reflecting on its future. To involve everyone in this process, it organised a Learning Network around the central theme of Travelling to Tomorrow. The participants inspire each other, fostering new ideas and insights, under the approving eye of coaches Arno Vansichen and Luc Verheijen.

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Regenerative tourism

Jenny Andersson had a great opportunity to talk about the potential of regenerative tourism with three leading lights of the industry; leading speaker Anna Pollock, marketing director of Visit Flanders Elke Dens, and Tina O’Dwyer, head of The Tourism Space in Ireland.

Rob Hopkins
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Rob Hopkins

Rob Hopkins is best known as the founder of the Transition Network, a radically hopeful and community-driven approach to creating resilient societies powered by community-based imagination and locally generated energy. Since forming the Transition Town Network in Tones, England in 2005, Rob has witnessed and nourished several thousand initiatives in over 40 countries and has also overseen the...

Summit 19
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How can a conference act as a catalyst for a flourishing destination?

On 12 and 13 September 2019, the MICE workshop took place during the Travel to Tomorrow summit in Bruges. Together with the organisers of Supernova – Nora Weytens of Flanders DC and Marieke Sopers of Scale-Ups EU – and moderator Samme Allen, Visit Flanders supported this session with the aim of thinking about how international conferences can have a positive impact on our destination.