How can the travel industry feed into the preservation of local economies and cultures, without extracting from them? How might we as travellers make sure we give as much as we take from the Indigenous cultures we learn so much from?

In a world where globalisation is eroding culture and tradition, tourism has to walk a delicate tightrope between supporting preservation and enabling progress.

A witness to Ladakh’s introduction to globalisation, Helena Norberg-Hodge joins travel writer and TCTF mentor, Nina Karnikowski to share her work on the worldwide localisation movement. From 1975, Helena worked with the people of Ladakh, to find ways of enabling their culture to meet the modern world (including their introduction to tourism) without sacrificing social and ecological values.

Nina and Helena are joining us from their homes in Australia, the session will be recorded for our members on other time zones.