Bringing the Wellbeing Agenda to Tourism

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A Planet Happiness Report

Based on data from the Happiness Alliance's Happiness Index with additional questions for community wellbeing and tourism this report contrasts tourism, development and change over the last 30 years, drawing upon settlement and household data sets collected between 1993 and 2022.

The report:

identifies key issues currently undermining the wellbeing of the destination,
presents findings from deploying the Happiness Index survey in settlements in the park and its buffer zone,
makes recommendations to strengthen the wellbeing of host communities, the park and its environs,
highlights the urgent need to apply lessons from this exceptional example of community development through tourism to other sites, especially protected areas that are home to indigenous communities, around the world.

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Our Project: Planet Happiness

We bring the Happiness Movement to the Tourism Sector with our project, Planet Happiness. Launched in 2018. we are the first to bring the happiness movement to the tourism sector. Planet Happiness brings focus the attention on the well-being agenda for all tourism stakeholders, from tourist to host community members, tourism businesses to governmental and NGO agencies working for tourism. Our aim with Planet Happiness is to use tourism as a vehicle for development that demonstrably strengthens destination sustainability and the quality of life of host communities.

Grounded in a peer-reviewed approach (Musikanski, Rogers et al, 2019), Planet Happiness contribute to sustainable happiness in World Heritage Site and other tourism sites through awareness raising, happiness measurement, community-based action and win-win solutions for the happiness of people, wellbeing of communities, strength of heritable and and sustainability of ecosystems in tourism sites globally.

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