Redrawing the Map: Travel as Awareness in a World Awakening

Lonely Planet presents a discussion on travel as an opportunity for cultural and personal awakening: a possible response to the ongoing global transformations. In a world that needs to be reinterpreted and rewritten, travel becomes an act of awareness and an opportunity to inhabit complexity, rediscovering authentic connections with places and communities. A case study of regenerative tourism will be presented: the Marquesas Islands and, more generally, French Polynesia, as a virtuous example of a destination where biodiversity and cultural heritage, recognized by UNESCO, intertwine with Mana, the spiritual force that guides a harmonious relationship between humans and nature. For a tourism that does not consume, but listens, participates, and regenerates.