1. Tourism development values, with impressions from Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, and Montenegro - by Balkan Green (4 minutes) Balkan Green is aiming to uncover the true meaning of being a sustainable tourism destination and business in the Balkans. Balkan Green is an initiative bringing together organizations from the Balkan region to form a discussion towards more sustainable tourism development. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kHrIjJXBo0

Sharing a short essay that arrived in my inbox today, courtesy of Dense Discovery — a newsletter about design, tech, sustainability and urbanism curated by Kai Brach, based in Melbourne, Australia. Do we travel for transformation or validation? It's always interesting to hear what thought leaders "outside" the travel industry have to say about the state of tourism, so I'm sharing Kai's article with his permission. There's a few good points in this piece, including how touristic travel (e.g. mass tourism) ...

We're polling the Travel Massive community for your predictions for travel in 2023. 🏆 The top 3 most upvoted answers will get a postcard from Tasmania! 😀 👉 Here's a few examples of predictions you could answer: What new styles of travel will be popular? What emerging technologies will make travel better? How will travel story telling change? How will destinations change? ✅ RULES: Be creative, positive, and hopeful — we're shaping the future!

I tried www.copy.ai today — an artificial intelligence content generator. I've been sceptical about such tools and this is the first time I've tried one out. I was shocked at how good the results were! It was almost impossible to think that the content was created in just 10 seconds by an AI tool. And it made me think what does this mean for the travel writing industry... 🤖 Do you think AI-based content generators are going to replace travel writers and storytellers? Curious to see what you think. Do you ...