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How can guest houses add to a flourishing destination and, in turn, a flourishing community?

A Travelling to Tomorrow story is not complete without focussing on the locations where the residents, businesses and tourists stay and how they can be transformed into flourishing destinations.

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How can meetings between residents and visitors contribute towards creating flourishing destinations?

Visit Mechelen, Tourism Kempen and Tourism Meetjesland, pioneers in Travelling to Tomorrow, completed an intensive learning project and trials in 2019 with the aim of realising the Travelling to Tomorrow and flourishing destinations concepts in their regions and cities. They started by expanding the local network around tourism with residents, businesses and policy. A few experimental projects...

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Flanders Fields – Centenary of the Great War

Remembrance tourism and the balance between visitors, the locals, local businesses and the government.

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Andrew Simms

Can we make the transition to a new economy in time?

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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...

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What can we do to achieve a sustainable recreational mobility in a flourishing destination?

Mobility, sustainability, carrying capacity and tourism. These are areas that are strongly interlinked and which we can no longer ignore today. During the Travel to Tomorrow summit, mobility expert Bart Busschaert (Scelta Mobility) provided some tips & tricks in the field of (sustainable) mobility, tourism and recreation.

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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.

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This is the time to celebrate the gift of human imagination

A conversation with Rob Hopkins, one of the founders of the Transition Network.

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The shift: when tourism becomes hosting

She made a remarkable ‘sojourn’ in Bruges, where VISITFLANDERS hosted a summit about the future of Tourism, named ‘Travel to Tomorrow, growing forward together.’ In her keynote talk, Michelle Holliday, author of the book ‘The Age of Thrivability’, gently invited the tourism sector to become aware of its influence to help create a world where all life can thrive.

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Relive the Travel to Tommorow summit

The Travel to Tomorrow summit 2019 is over. With 250 participants, at least as many meaningful encounters, lots of inspiration and plans for the future, it was a great success!

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Summit 2019: Travel to Tomorrow – Growing Forward Together

On 12 and 13 September 2019 ‘Travel to Tomorrow – Growing Forward Together’ will take place in Bruges. This summit brings together entrepreneurs, opinion and policy makers and policy supporters around pressing, contemporary questions and challenges in the tourism sector.

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Daniel Christian Wahl

Collaborative advantage and qualitative growth. Tourism as a catalyst for regional regeneration & climate resilience.