Proceedings and Declaration - Resilient and Regenerative Tourism - Geneva Forum 2025

Resilient and regenerative tourism – Making travel a cross-cutting solution for the Sustainable Development Goals

17th Geneva Forum – Palais des Nations (UN), Geneva – Friday, December 12, 2025

12th Annual International Conference on Resilient and Responsible Travel and Tourism for Peace and Sustainable Development;
Regenerative Tourism as a cross-cutting solution for high-impact transformation projects. Presentation of the cross-cutting impact projects produced during the week.

Gathered at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, the participants of the Annual International Conference on Resilient and Regenerative Tourism explored how tourism can become an operational lever for ecological, social, cultural, educational and economic transformation.

The session confirmed that tourism must no longer be conceived only as a sector of leisure, consumption or flows. Because it mobilizes millions of people, territories, infrastructures, heritages, economic chains and imaginaries, it can become a platform for regeneration: creating local jobs, restoring ecosystems, financing impact projects, strengthening communities, enhancing cultures and making travelers useful during their free time.

Regenerative tourism begins when travel no longer merely limits its impacts, but genuinely contributes to improving the places, ecosystems and communities it passes through.

This declaration summarizes the main elements exchanged during the conference, the lessons drawn from the presentations, the operational positions proposed for 2026, as well as the calls for partnerships addressed to States, destinations, tourism operators, NGOs, local authorities, cultural, scientific and educational actors, impact investors and organizations of International Geneva.



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Constat général issu des présentations

Les présentations et échanges de la journée ont convergé vers un constat central : le tourisme régénératif peut devenir l’un des formats les plus puissants pour transformer les flux économiques existants en projets à impact, à condition d’être structuré comme un système de contribution et non comme une simple offre touristique.

  • Le tourisme représente un levier transversal parce qu’il relie :
    • les territoires,
    • les emplois,
    • les cultures,
    • les paysages,
    • les écosystèmes,
    • les transports,
    • les infrastructures,
    • les communautés locales,
    • les voyageurs,
    • les récits,
    • les financements,
    • et les politiques publiques.
  • Le passage du tourisme durable au tourisme régénératif implique un changement de posture :
    • ne plus seulement réduire les impacts négatifs,
    • mais restaurer les écosystèmes,
    • renforcer les communautés,
    • revitaliser les cultures,
    • financer des


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