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- Valuing the workforce: Supporting hospitality workers through local partnerships – Marquette E5In this conversation, Andrew Rickauer from United Way of Marquette County explains how local partnerships, often including tourism businesses, are helping build stronger, more resilient communities. His perspective shows how tourism can be a vital force for community well-being when it’s aligned with local needs.
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42 min - From taproom to watershed: A brewery rooted in place and responsibility – Marquette E4Ore Dock Brewing Company in Marquette, Michigan is creating a space where locals and visitors come together to learn, celebrate, and protect what makes the region special. Founded in 2012, the brewery has become a cultural anchor hosting everything from public lectures on water conservation to art shows and memorials. For co-founder Andi Pernsteiner, tourism is less about promotion and more about using hospitality as a platform for stewardship.
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37 min - From promotion to purpose: Storytelling for responsible tourism – Marquette E3With Aaron Peterson, filmmaker and co-founder of the Fresh Coast Film Festival
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46 min - What your local historian can teach you about responsible growth – Marquette E2
What can a destination’s past teach us about its future? In this episode, Marquette historian and storyteller Jim Koski explores how transformations of the past can help today’s tourism leaders make more thoughtful, place-based decisions. Learn how honouring history, environment, and community identity can shape stewardship efforts going forward.
With gratitude to Travel Marquette for sponsoring this season of Travel Beyond.
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44 min - Rooted in respect: How Travel Marquette leads with care and collaboration – Marquette E1
What happens when tourism is rooted in local pride and environmental responsibility? In this episode, Susan Estler, CEO of Travel Marquette, shares how collaboration across industries and a deep passion for place are shaping the visitor experience in this Great Lakes community. Learn how Marquette is building a culture of care.
With gratitude to Travel Marquette for sponsoring this season of Travel Beyond.
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54 min - What makes a meaningful travel experience? Conditions for success in Ontario’s SouthwestFrom beekeepers to woodworkers, passionate artisans in Ontario’s Southwest are giving visitors skills and memories to last a lifetime. Joanne Wolnik leads the area’s regional tourism organization. In this episode, she tells us about transformational experiences and shares how an experience development program is placing passion at the heart of travel.
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23 min - How a new shipping container market is sparking civic pride in the gateway to Northern BCAs this industrial hub of 80,000 people faces economic transitions from traditional forestry, Tourism Prince George in northern British Columbia is enabling innovations that make tourism work for locals. The city’s new container market and outdoor skating rink are community projects that will benefit both visitors and residents, while boosting civic pride.
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28 min - How the ʔiisaak Pledge is transforming Tofino travelWhat happens when tourism strains local services, and what can be done about it? In this episode, Brad Parsell of Tourism Tofino shares how the community is turning tourism revenue into infrastructure solutions and how Tla-o-qui-aht values expressed through the ʔiisaak Pledge are guiding a new model of respectful, regenerative travel.
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32 min - CopenPay returns, now rewarding train travel and longer stays
CopenPay is back in the Danish capital this summer, and this year's program looks to make an even bigger impact on the environment and visitors. How? By rewarding behaviour like train travel and longer stays.
In this episode of Travel Beyond, we talk with Rikke Holm Petersen from Wonderful Copenhagen about what's coming up and how this pilot project became a global conversation. Find out how to participate at www.copenpay.com.
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19 min - How tourism provides teachers up to $500,000 a year in eco-friendly Port AransasPort Aransas, Texas, is a small beach town with big ideas about sustainable tourism and community care. In this episode, Brett Stawar explains how tourism operators and visitors are funding annual stipends for teachers and providing students with scholarships. They’re also pitching in with environmental care. From sea turtles to sand sculptures, learn how this Gulf Coast destination is putting people and place first.
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About Travel Beyond
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The Travel Beyond podcast brings you the travel industry’s most exciting innovations that address the greatest challenges facing communities and the planet.
We partner with travel…
destinations and changemakers working toward a regenerative future where all people can flourish, and that means transforming the travel industry to respect the needs of residents, visitors, and the environment.
At Destination Think, we believe travel can make the world a better place, but it must do so without environmental, economic and social harm. In the travel industry, and as travellers, we need to pair our words with meaningful action if we are going to improve our lives and the world. The solutions are in sight, and they need to be shared.
Protecting our planet and shaping the future of travel is a big project that needs a big team. Tune in to hear from the inspiring travel leaders and many others committed to this vital project. And join us.
www.destinationthink.com
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