Pelham House Resort – Cape Cod, Massachusetts
The Challenge: How Can We Sustain and Transform? Such is tourism’s paradox: a global economic engine built on movement – yet that very movement skirts the edge of collapse. The weight of tourism – environmental, cultural, infrastructural – threatens to erode the very places and communities it depends on. That’s not sustainable. It demands transformation. At the Center for Responsible Travel’s (CREST’s) 2025 World Tourism Forum, we flip the script: How can we transform tourism – so we can sustain it? And how can we ensure its benefits protect the places we love and the people who live there?
