These 2025 Global Vision Awards winners are redefining what tourism should look like.
Were at a key inflection point, Rabinor says.
Tourism, some community leaders proposed, offered a way forward.
After years of groundwork,Icy Strait Pointdebuted in 2004 as the first privately owned cruise destination in Alaska.
Partnering with other Indigenous groups in Alaska and the Caribbean.
Items are then donated to local aid organizations, rather than languishing in lost-and-found closets before being discarded.
A lot of those items have a useful life, Cox says.
You have to start small because small doesnt break anything, he says.
White Desert
Antarctica has seen a record-setting number of visitors in recent years.
A White Desert plane in Antarctica.Credit:Courtesy of White Desert
From left: A farmer in Xochimilco, a district of Mexico City; weavers affiliated with the Haciendas del Mundo Maya Foundation.From left: COURTESY OF JOURNEY MEXICO; @VIRIDIANNA/COURTESY OF HACIENDAS DEL MUNDO MAYA FOUNDATION
Paddling near Icy Strait Point, Alaska.Courtesy of Icy Strait Point
A Giving Bag in a guest room closet at the Alila SCBD Jakarta hotel in Indonesia.Courtesy of Giving Bag
Trainees of the Mountain Lioness Project, in Tanzania.Courtesy of Exodus Adventure Travels
From left: The view from a Memory Road guesthouse in Morocco; a guest bedroom at the property.Courtesy of 700’000 Heures Impact
White Desert Foundation supports field science in Antarctica.Courtesy of White Desert
