The Award Winning Destination Regeneration Program

Where the People & Place Come First

 

Be the Next Early Adopter

Destination Regeneration Accreditation Program

‘Co-Creating Destinations of the Future’

We're guiding forward-looking destinations on a path to regenerative development that is holistically designed to improve host, traveler, community, and environmental well-being and help them flourish.

A 12-month hands-on learning journey weaving theory and applied practice for tourism destinations to reimagine tourism, build concrete capacities, design transformational experiences, and inspire and involve local stakeholders in co-designing a regenerative development plan for their place and community. 

We have a chance to help travel fulfill its regenerative, interpersonal, and transformative potential like never before. The moment we are collectively in is uniquely suited for destinations to advance tourism as a force for good. 

The world demands innovative solutions to legacy problems associated with our sector such as overtourism and its inherent negative environmental impacts.

Destination stewards must bravely and rapidly adapt to a changing world.

Our Early Adopters

Celebrating our first 3 of 5 Early Adopters

 
Regenerative tourism aims to restore the harm that our system has already done to the natural world, and by using nature’s principles, to create the conditions of life to flourish. It views wholes and not parts, and is a very different way of looking at the world.
— Anna Pollock

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A Cooperative Approach Rooted in Nature’s Wisdom

 

A regenerative future

People in places worldwide are adapting to new norms and needs. Many are embracing sustainability or deepening their commitments to protecting their natural and cultural heritage. Some are entirely reimagining their approach to tourism and how they measure success.

Transformation and regeneration are the catalysts for this evolution. This evolution is inclusive and involves balancing the needs of nature, communities, and the economy and using tourism to encourage the healthy functioning of ecosystems and people’s role within them.

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The Intent

- To empower destination stakeholders to transform their visitor economies and improve long-term resident, traveler, and environmental well-being

- To promote the transition to a transformation economy within a region through the development and implementation of impactful principles and practices

- To support participating Early Adopter destinations worldwide in becoming recognized as global pioneers and leaders in the next generation of travel and tourism

Destinations cannot ignore the future importance of regenerative tourism and transformative travel.
— Tracey Poggio, Chairman, The Association of National Tourist Offices (ANTOR), July 23rd, 2021
 

The Journey

Participating places can expect to benefit from their active and on-going integration of the ‘Regenerative Development Principles for Places,’ a community designed living stewardship plan, and a license to use the TTC’s transformative travel curriculum and community to scale up transformational travel offerings among suppliers and host communities.

1
Unification

Grounded in nature’s blueprint for cooperation and thriveability, the community follows the Theory U process to cultivate shared values, empower participation, and strengthen the inner capacities needed to co-create and continually evolve as a regenerative place.

2
Equip the Community

Unlearn unhealthy strategies and linear approaches and embrace regenerative ways of thinking and being—both individually and collectively. Through cooperative capacity-building, dynamic training, and facilitated dialogue, we deepen connection, expand meaning, and begin to spark positive change for the visitor, the visited, and the place they share.

3
Co-Create the Strategic Plan

Development of a destination manifesto, 100-year vision, 10-year strategic goals, and an actionable roadmap that drives continuous evolution, strengthens organizational alignment, and embeds regenerative principles and transformative practices through an inclusive, collaborative planning process.

 

4
Lead the Transformation Economy

Tourism practitioners are trained to design meaningful visitor experiences that and a train the trainer model to scale up transformative travel offerings among practitioners and the host community.

5
Marketing + Amplification

Catalyze the program into a compelling marketing narrative for transformative branding and messaging that authentically calls to this emerging, mindful, impact-driven, purpose-led traveler segment.

 

 

Our Process & Participants

We work with destination leaders and stakeholders in cooperatively realizing a regenerative future for their destinations. Through a multi-stage, iterative process we inspire change by shifting mindsets and integrating transformative and regenerative design principles into your strategic approach, planning, and product development.

Our transformative learning process includes a series of interviews, inquiries, online gatherings, in-person workshops, and ongoing contemplative practices that are held over the course of 9-12 months, we facilitate the discussion, trigger deep reflection, and use the power of collective intelligence to help destination stakeholders make sense of what makes their destination truly unique and develop the inner skills and capacities to inspire change and build resilience and foster thrivability for all stakeholders.

The ‘deliverable’ of regenerative development and design is building the capacity and capability of that community to co-evolve.
— Bill Reed of Regenesis Group

Destination Leaders
Including the DMO, tourism board, and community-level leaders actively supporting their tourism sectors through the provision of accessible solutions to some challenges and relevant issues we are all confronting.

Hosts & Practitioners
Including tour operators, lodges, retreats, guides, and experience providers working on the local level to consciously design and create the conditions for transformation of the visitors and the visited.


 
 

Regeneration Emerges Through Practical Steps

A 12 month hybrid program blending asynchronous courses, monthly online gatherings, home study, and two in-person workshops following a logical 5-phase process of reimagining tourism, learning, co-creating, and evolving into a thriving, tourism-oriented community.

 

HOw to move forward with purpose

1. An expression of interest or invitation from the TTC to become the next Early Adopter of the Destination Regeneration Program.

2. Completion of an informational interview with TTC leadership to discuss the way forward for your destination and review the program in detail and how to involve stakeholders

3. Pre-discovery work, assessment, and intention-setting

4. Delivery of two 2.5-day on-site workshops and training, resulting in a Regenerative Guidelines for Action, Destination Manifesto, and Theory of Change

5. Implementation policies, practices, programs; and pre-qualified trainers trained to conduct future transformational visitor experience training

 
Program Overview
 

The TTC Difference

Traditional DMO Tourism Development Strategies and our Destination Regeneration Program

 
 
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I’m excited for Willamette Valley Visitor Association’s involvement in the Transformative Destinations Program. The innovative work we’re doing together with our regional partners to inspire travel that drives community enhancement and economic development has never been more important,” explains Todd Davidson, CEO of Travel Oregon. “One result of this past year is the opportunity to build tourism back better to aid our state’s economic recovery and increase the resiliency of our lands and people. It’s our opportunity to seize or to squander and WVVA’s embrace of the TTC’s Transformative Destinations Program serves to highlight Oregon’s leadership in defining the future of tourism.
— Todd Davidson, CEO of Travel Oregon
 

The Think Tank

 
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The Creators

PROGRAM ARCHITECTS

Brian Mullis, Co-Creator, TTC Board of Directors

Jake Haupert, Co-Creator, TTC Founder

Jillian Dickens, TTC Director of Special Projects

KEY CONTRIBUTORS

Marina Laurent, Regenerative Consultant and Facilitator

 
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Task Force

We’re proud to honor these bright thinkers for helping us define the ‘Regenerative Development Principles for Places,’ and refine our transformation design process and program.

Joe Pine, Co-Author, “The Experience Economy”

April Rinne, Author, “Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change”

Dr. Ted Manning, President Tourisk Inc.

Shoba Mohan, Founder Partner at RARE India

Muna Haddad, Managing Director, Baraka

Jeremy Smith, Co-Founder, Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency

Tre' Cates, Regenerative Entrepreneur

Deirdre Shurland, Policy Consultant, UN Environment Programme

Robert Govers, Chairman of IPBA, Author IMAGINATIVE COMMUNITIES