Chi LoChi is a sustainable tourism expert with 14 years’ experience across four continents. She specializes in sustainability strategic planning and reporting, cross-sectorial and cross-cultural relationship building, with particular interests in community-based tourism, wildlife, (food) waste, and certification. As a consultant, she coaches sector entities aiming to become more sustainable. She is currently serves as an advisory board member for the World Tourism Association for Culture & Heritage, as a tourism advisor for the Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network, and sits on the Global Sustainable Tourism Council Communications & Membership Working Group
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Global initiatives can benefit from the convergence of happiness and wellbeing as a core driver for sustainability and its three pillars - economy, society, and environment. Working in concert, sustainability and happiness ensure that our homes, communities, livelihoods, and earth’s most precious resources will be safeguarded now and in the future, freeing us to pursue what brings us joy and contentment.
Through the Happiness Alliance and Planet Happiness' focused approach, we can better understand how sustainable tourism development strategies intersect with human enjoyment and wellbeing. Can lessons from sustainable tourism destinations help us to better understand how effective natural and socio-cultural resource management might lead to increased happiness? Further, can the consideration of happiness within our understanding of economic health pave the way for the conscientious progression of the tourism economy and our collective society as a whole? In this age of change, we have a great opportunity to restructure how we grow as a society, and can do so by thinking creatively and considering some of the world’s most innovative and progressive destinations to learn how to balance happiness and wellbeing with economic, societal, and environmental security and prosperity.
Through the Happiness Alliance and Planet Happiness' focused approach, we can better understand how sustainable tourism development strategies intersect with human enjoyment and wellbeing. Can lessons from sustainable tourism destinations help us to better understand how effective natural and socio-cultural resource management might lead to increased happiness? Further, can the consideration of happiness within our understanding of economic health pave the way for the conscientious progression of the tourism economy and our collective society as a whole? In this age of change, we have a great opportunity to restructure how we grow as a society, and can do so by thinking creatively and considering some of the world’s most innovative and progressive destinations to learn how to balance happiness and wellbeing with economic, societal, and environmental security and prosperity.
