Susanne Becken

Dr Susanne Becken

Dr Susanne Becken

Susanne Beck­en is Pro­fess­or of Sus­tain­able Tour­ism at Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity, Aus­tralia; Prin­cip­al Sci­ence Invest­ment Advisor for New Zealand’s Depart­ment of Con­ser­va­tion; and the Vice Chan­cel­lor Research Fel­low at the Uni­ver­sity of Sur­rey, UK.

Dr Beck­en has also writ­ten for The “GT” Travel Blog.

Seven ‘deeper leverage points’ for travel & tourism’s effective climate action

and January 11, 2022
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"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." _ Archimedes

Aca­dem­ics Johanna Loehr and Susanne Beck­en offer an exec­ut­ive sum­mary of “Lever­age points to address cli­mate change risk in des­tin­a­tions”; their paper recently pub­lished by Tour­ism Geo­graph­ies. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] The latest sci­ence is clear. Cli­mate action needs to step up drastic­ally.  This also affects tour­ism. As […]

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Regenerative tourism vs sustainable tourism: What’s the difference?

and August 4, 2020
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An unfurling silver fern frond, New Zealand. By Jon Radoff (CC BY 2.5) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1380624 The koru (Māori for '"loop or coil"') symbolises "new life, growth, strength and peace"; "conveys the idea of perpetual movement" while the inner coil "suggests returning to the point of origin".

For this “GT” Insight, Susanne Beck­en and Dav­id Gill­banks cor­res­pond to explore some of the sim­il­ar­it­ies and dif­fer­ences between the new buzz phrase “regen­er­at­ive tour­ism” and the old buzz term “sus­tain­able tour­ism”. DG: In a recent piece for News­room you wrote: “The very basic under­pin­ning of regen­er­at­ive tour­ism is that it is under­stood to occur […]

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“Tourism contributes to sustainable development.” Are you sure?

May 22, 2017
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Global Sustainable Tourism Dashboard

The “Good Tour­ism” Blo­g’s first guest con­trib­ut­or, Dr Susanne Beck­en, is, among oth­er things, Pro­fess­or of Sus­tain­able Tour­ism at Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity and Dir­ect­or of the Grif­fith Insti­tute for Tour­ism, as well as one of the ini­ti­at­ors of the Glob­al Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Dash­board. In this post, Dr Beck­en explains the rais­on d’être of the Dash­board. Tourism […]

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