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Tourism disrupted: Future scenarios, design thinking and innovating for a climate-changed world
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Tourism disrupted: Future scenarios, design thinking and innovating for a climate-changed world

  • 15:00–15:45 UK time45 minutes
  • Online, on Zoom, inside ScholardemiaRegister, then join on this page from 14:50. How to join
  • Convened by Prof. Eugenia WickensOrganised by Scholardemia

Use scenarios and design thinking to test ideas and prepare tourism services for climate change and uncertainty.

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Speaker update, 2 October 2026: Speakers will be announced once confirmed.
Climate disruption, resource constraints and economic change challenge tourism strategies based on stable seasons, predictable demand and familiar operating conditions. This webinar examines how strategic foresight and scenario planning can help organisations consider several plausible futures. It will show how contrasting scenarios reveal hidden assumptions, expose dependencies and test long-term investment choices. Scenarios will be treated as structured tools for inquiry rather than predictions or narratives selected to justify a preferred organisational strategy.
Panellists will demonstrate how design thinking can translate climate evidence into practical responses through observation, problem definition, collaborative development, prototyping and revision. The discussion will consider resilient visitor services, circular operating processes and alternatives to resource-intensive business models. It will also examine power within participatory design, asking whose knowledge influences the problem and who has authority over the resulting intervention. Environmental limits and unequal exposure to climate risk will be included from the beginning rather than added after commercial concepts are developed.
Participants will gain a practical process for connecting future scenarios with present decisions. They will learn to identify early signals, test proposals under different conditions and revise assumptions as evidence changes. The session will also consider how residents, workers and local suppliers can participate meaningfully in developing adaptation strategies. Delegates will leave equipped to use foresight and design methods together, creating innovations that remain useful across uncertainty while avoiding solutions that protect visitor experiences by transferring costs or risks to host communities. This approach makes experimentation purposeful, transparent and responsive to public evidence.

How to join

This webinar runs on Zoom. You join it here on Scholardemia, where the meeting opens inside the page with the chat, questions and polls beside it. You do not need a Zoom account or a Zoom link.

  1. RegisterFree, with your Scholardemia account.
  2. Come back on the dayThe room opens at 14:50 on Friday 12 March. We email you reminders with the Join button 24 hours and 1 hour before.
  3. Press JoinSign in with the same account. The meeting opens here, with questions, polls and the group chat beside it.

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Tourism disrupted: Future scenarios, design thinking and innovating for a climate-changed world

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Use scenarios and design thinking to test ideas and prepare tourism services for climate change and uncertainty.

  • 15:00–15:45 UK time
  • Online, on Zoom, inside Scholardemia · 45 minutesRegister, then join on this page from 14:50. How to join
  • Convened by Prof. Eugenia WickensOrganised by Scholardemia

About this webinar

Speaker update, 2 October 2026: Speakers will be announced once confirmed.
Climate disruption, resource constraints and economic change challenge tourism strategies based on stable seasons, predictable demand and familiar operating conditions. This webinar examines how strategic foresight and scenario planning can help organisations consider several plausible futures. It will show how contrasting scenarios reveal hidden assumptions, expose dependencies and test long-term investment choices. Scenarios will be treated as structured tools for inquiry rather than predictions or narratives selected to justify a preferred organisational strategy.
Panellists will demonstrate how design thinking can translate climate evidence into practical responses through observation, problem definition, collaborative development, prototyping and revision. The discussion will consider resilient visitor services, circular operating processes and alternatives to resource-intensive business models. It will also examine power within participatory design, asking whose knowledge influences the problem and who has authority over the resulting intervention. Environmental limits and unequal exposure to climate risk will be included from the beginning rather than added after commercial concepts are developed.
Participants will gain a practical process for connecting future scenarios with present decisions. They will learn to identify early signals, test proposals under different conditions and revise assumptions as evidence changes. The session will also consider how residents, workers and local suppliers can participate meaningfully in developing adaptation strategies. Delegates will leave equipped to use foresight and design methods together, creating innovations that remain useful across uncertainty while avoiding solutions that protect visitor experiences by transferring costs or risks to host communities. This approach makes experimentation purposeful, transparent and responsive to public evidence.

How to join

This webinar runs on Zoom. You join it here on Scholardemia, where the meeting opens inside the page with the chat, questions and polls beside it. You do not need a Zoom account or a Zoom link.

  1. RegisterFree, with your Scholardemia account.
  2. Come back on the dayThe room opens at 14:50 on Friday 12 March. We email you reminders with the Join button 24 hours and 1 hour before.
  3. Press JoinSign in with the same account. The meeting opens here, with questions, polls and the group chat beside it.

Use an up-to-date Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox. Allow sound when your browser asks, and use headphones if you can.

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Prof. Eugenia Wickens

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OTS Academy

United Kingdom

Professor Eugenia Wickens edits the Journal On Tourism & Sustainability (JOTS) and the Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Education (JTHE), and chairs Scholardemia webinar sessions. Her research covers tourist experience and typologies, tourism routes and rural development, volunteer tourism, and event and cultural tourism. Formerly Reader in Tourism at Buckinghamshire New University, she has helped plan tourism education in Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Serbia, Greece, Ireland and Turkey.

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Prof. Eugenia Wickens

Convenor

OTS Academy

United Kingdom

Professor Eugenia Wickens edits the Journal On Tourism & Sustainability (JOTS) and the Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Education (JTHE), and chairs Scholardemia webinar sessions. Her research covers tourist experience and typologies, tourism routes and rural development, volunteer tourism, and event and cultural tourism. Formerly Reader in Tourism at Buckinghamshire New University, she has helped plan tourism education in Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Serbia, Greece, Ireland and Turkey.

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