“If we don’t use our intelligence to take care of the land, we can no longer consider ourselves beautiful,” reminds Your syilx Sisters, the Indigenous content creators and cultural trainers who are Travel Local’s guests on this episode of the SHIFT Podcast. We kickoff Season 3 with how Indigenous values teach little brother to walk gently on the land, and are proving to be a more positive way to nudge people to behave. You’ll want to listen-in and hear the Sisters talk about how they’ve been working with Travel Local to deepen tourism’s approach to place-making and regenerative travel through what they call: “the Medicine of Place.”

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Is North America stopping short on building a truly interconnected, intermodal transportation network? Tourism destinations certainly hope not if international overnight arrivals are going to recover as hoped by 2026. Transportation is the lifeblood of tourism. There is no travel industry without it. President and CEO Solomon Wong of InterVistas is on the show. In this Episode 5, the world’s top transportation consultancy firm is talking about the future of air passenger travel, smart aviation, AI, service solutions, the electric skyway, and jealousy over Europe’s increasingly seamless journey by air and rail. Listen-in as we count the steps on the last mile Canada still needs to travel towards a future destination that’s more sustainable.

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Is land certainty up in the air for tourism? Dave Butler, Director of Sustainability for CMH Heliskiing and Summer Adventures is on the show to talk about an aspect of tourism that we often take for granted, land use management. Like any other resource-based industry, tourism needs secure commercial access if operators are going to make the longterm investments the industry needs to be sustainable. A sustainability pioneer himself, Dave and nearly twenty (yep, 20) other important tourism sectors have formed an Adventure Tourism Coalition that’s calling for more modern policies. And given the central role they play in stewardship, employment and tax revenue, they want the provincial government policy levers and land management professionals all under one roof so they can keep delivering on Super, Natural BC’s brand promise.

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