Aotearoa New Zealand’s Trails – Connecting People, Places & Nature for good
In this entertaining and inspiring slide show, storyteller and sustainable tourism advocate Sarah Bennett shows how Aotearoa New Zealand’s trails are connecting people and places for good – amidst the challenges of an overwhelmed and over-heating world.
Typology of Hiking Tourism: A Multi-dimensional Framework
Hiking tourism has grown rapidly in scale and diversity, encompassing a wide range of practices, motivations, and meanings that intersect sport, tourism, and cultural traditions. However, existing research on hiking tourism remains conceptually fragmented, with limited integration across disciplinary perspectives. This presentation examines how hiking tourism has been conceptualized in academic literature and explores the need for a coherent typological framework that reflects its multi-dimensional nature.
Sai Ng, Professor, Chinese Culture University
Zero-Investment to Zero-Carbon Footprint Trails: Transforming Trails in the Himalayas
The presentation will include ideas on how trail walking can lead to both hikers and host communities becoming stakeholders in conservation. It will narrate the story of how a group of people with no resources mapped and documented trails, began walking and transformed tourism in remote Himalayas.
Lokesh Ohri, Chairperson, Humanities Himalaya
Implementing Trails as Tourism Products: Insights from Brazil
This case study shares lessons from Brazil on structuring long-distance trails as tourism products. It explores how trails can integrate visitor experience design, local services, community engagement, and conservation objectives to generate local value and support long-term management.
Paula Rascao, CEO, eTrilhas
