What is regenerative tourism?

Last updated: 2026-05-23

Regenerative tourism is travel that actively contributes to restoring ecosystems and communities — not merely reducing harm. Visitors participate in real restoration work (planting native trees, removing invasive limu, weeding loʻi kalo) alongside local operators. On Hawaiʻi, the framework is rooted in the indigenous concept of mālama ʻāina.