How to fix travel | Doug Lansky | TEDxStockholm
Travel has improved over the years in some ways, but it has come off the rails in others. It's great that a journey from Europe to the U.S. takes eight hours instead of several weeks in the hull of a rat-infested sailboat boat, but tourism is also homogenizing the planet's cultures and growing unsustainably. How can Stockholm, for example, find room for twice as many tourists in the summer in popular areas where it's already so crowded visitors can barely move down the street? And with the packaged, tight itineraries that bring visitors from one attractions to the next, how are visitors supposed to make natural contact with locals? Doug Lansky, travel writer, tourism industry advisor, and author of the thought-provoking new visual book TRAVEL: The Guide, takes us on a journey to find the Holy Grail of tourism: sustainable, profitable, and authentic travel. Find more on Doug here: www.douglansky.com
Doug Lansky is an American travel writer based in Sweden who has written books for Lonely Planet, Rough Guides and contributed to Esquire, Men’s Journal,The Guardian, National Geographic Adventure, Readers Digest and many others. He also wrote a nationally syndicated travel column in over 40 newspapers, hosted a Travel Channel show and served as travel editor for Scandinavian Airlines inflight magazine.
On the speaking circuit, Doug has given acclaimed lectures at nearly 100 universities, spoken to a sold-out audience at corporate events and at both public and industry travel/tourism conferences.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
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I just finished the original subtitles for this talk, so I hope this will open up for many translations, to spread this inspiring talk to non-English speakers as well.
@mariozamarron1
6 жыл бұрын
Hi, what hapenned with those subtitles?where can I get them? Thank u so much in advanced!
@pabloealarcon
6 жыл бұрын
If you check the video, it has subtitles made by Annika.
@mariozamarron1
6 жыл бұрын
Right, thank u! sorry , I didn´t notice. Thank u Pablo
@volevy9896
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much
Good point.But why compare Beijing with Manhattan? And not with New York?
Thank you Doug Lansky! Yes to all of this - why I often fail to enjoy travel explained brilliantly. Excellent tip to Google local newspapers and use Google Translate to understand. Will definitely use that for our upcoming Malaga / Spain trip. Speaking as a local more than a traveller, I would like to add: less is more. I would prefer to travel less, but of higher quality/intensity. This could mean spending more money, but does not need to mean that. It could also mean, spending more time in defining and finding out exactly what a high quality trip to each traveller in his/her own way. That could be a consulting service, enjoying bits of the trip before actually going in joint preparation. Preparation of fun things makes (just as) happy as the fun things themselves. A side effect/outcoming of such prep convos, could be to find elements of the ideal trip nearby, or craft your home (town) to provide them. Improving day to day living that way.
Good points Doug. DMAI's Destination Next Initiative is helping DMOS understand about challenges in the future and how we should look at creating stronger bonds with community, economic development , government officials and overall destination infrastructure decision makers. We need to leverage our tourism expertise to help impact how cities are being developed, renovated and enhanced. The quality of the travel experience will serve to improve the quality of life for all the citizens in each destination. DMO executives are working hard to be at the table with every decision maker in their communities to affect change. Thanks for the thought provoking ideas Doug
Ok. What I've learnd is to focus on your own interests, and to live like a local people with all existing methods,especially Google. Good point.
This is the best TED talk i have listened to.
Awesome content ! Really loved the images ! I wish I'll be able to get here one day
such an awesome speech
Interesting. I think another issue that needs to be addressed is how wealthy countries and poor countries address issues that tourist care about. Less of a DMO issue and more of a government wide issue. I also think the tourist themselves can do a bit more research. With the explosion of blogs and Tripadvisor, tourism information is more up to the minute than ever. Off peak travel is definitely a force that many travelers should embrace. Flexibility is the key on both sides.
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Very interesting and informative talk! Would definitely recommend !
Watching this in 2020- incredibly engaging, informative and hilarious, almost like Jerry Seinfeld giving a Ted Talk !
population of beijing 27 millions population of manhattan barely 1.6 millions
Hello, I would like to clean some rivers. And teach people how not to pollute. How do i do that?
@camilorios7821
4 жыл бұрын
Start clean some rivers by yourself. Take a few pictures/videos and promote it via social media. Eventually you'll get volunteers and you can start teaching them how not to pollute. Its all about how effective you can be when promoting it, so you'll be giving a good practice to Marketing ;)
This is tight. Peep us!
Of course a "profitable business model" is what we want.
Why does one compare Manhattan to Beijin, not New York and Beijin ? Is it just me who's thinking thats, irrelavant ?
interesting and the world still undiscovered because people are going to same destinations for 20 years ...
his intentions are becoming reality and necessity in this global health crisis
KFC, IKEA, McDonald are out of context since those companies are targeting the locals, not tourists. KFC obviously change its recipe and adjusting its menu to the local market. And Beijing tourism authority never advertises them, because KFC and Walmart are not Beijing’s tourism product. IKEA? would you go to beijing to get furniture when you are a tourist? for authentic local experience, would tourist use squat toilets in China? or stay at local chinese hotel with cigarette smell in the room?
Cheap jokes and no real solution to the global increase of international visitors.
Funny and not so great ted talk.