Regenerative Hospitality

Digitally Enabled Regenerative Hospitality Ecosystems

The project generated an understaidng og Regenerative Hospitality scope and best practices at international level.

Start & End Date

15/06/2022 - 15/12/2022

Main Applicant

Inversini, A., EHL Hospitality Business School

Co-applicant(s):

Schegg, R., HES-SO Valais

External Funding

HES-SO

Project Description

In many regions, travel is seen as a powerful strategic tool to support sustainable development. However, the UN's sustainable development efforts are aimed at damage limitation and not really at preventing and/or restoring places (both socially and environmentally). This is the starting point of a regenerative hospitality, an approach that fosters innovation by embedding hospitality and tourism practices in local communities and ecological processes that improve human and non-human well-being. Hospitality business are seen in this view as interventions that develop the capacities of places, communities, and their guests to operate in harmony with interconnected social-ecological systems. Digital technology can support the mapping of complex ecosystem around businesses to foster ex-ante and ex-post regeneration.

Scientific Outputs

Inversini, A., Saul, L., Balet, S., & Schegg, R. (2024). The rise of regenerative hospitality. Journal of Tourism Futures, 10(1), 6-20. https://doi.org/10.1108/JTF-04-2023-0107

EHL Blog

Regenerative Hospitality - a new sustainability paradigm on the rise

he statement is clear. The tourism industry needs to go one step further in order to make a significant contribution to building a sustainable future. Yet, many have criticized the current inadequacy of the final objective - respecting the Paris Climate Agreement - and the actual paradigms of the industry, such as unlimited growth and the global distribution of tourism (Becken, 2019). Thus, the call from the UN Secretary-General António Guterres to rethink and reinvent the tourism industry raises concerns about the effectiveness of sustainability to meet that objective.

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In the Media

The Rise of Regenerative Hospitality - Welcome to the Future

“Regeneration” is going to be one of the main keywords of 2023. Within the rise of the regenerative economy, ‘Regenerative Hospitality’ is predicted to have a dramatic impact on the industry. Thanks to a fruitful collaboration between EHL- Hospitality Business School, the institute of tourism of HES-SO Valais/Wallis and Regenerative Travel we conducted an in-depth research on this new phenomenon. From our point of view, we are witnessing the rise of regenerative hospitality and we are predicting its possible expansion from luxury boutique hotels to mainstream properties.