Erin Hynes: What is responsible tourism here on alpaca my bags?

We've been exploring this question for years, looking for tangible ways that

we can be more responsible travelers.

Sure, we can cut down on how much we fly and book small,

independently owned hotels, but these are all individual actions.

To be totally honest, all of these individual actions

have started to weigh on me.

Sometimes I wonder if it's fair to put the pressures of these individual

actions on myself and on others when at the root, the real challenges in

responsible tourism are systemic.

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about what responsible travel would

look like if there was action as a collective, and this is a theme that

sparked the entire season ahead.

On this season of alpaca, my bags we're unpacking weather.

Responsible tourism could be a larger social movement.

I see the world, uh, changing in a very significant way in the next two

decades, and I think it's going to be more unstable and travel will be more

difficult and people will not be able to go to all corners of the world.

Dawn Marie Paley: There's lands that are increasingly of interest

to Canadians, to folks from the US who want a vacation property.

It's worth thinking about how, what's happening now in some ways is even worse.

Then what was happening during the colonial period?

Vincie Ho: There are words that we used to use and that we no longer

use because we've learned, uh, about the harmful implications.

Join me, Erin Heinz and my trustee producer Katie Lore.

Kattie Laur: Hi Erin.

Erin Hynes: For a new season of Alpaca my bags

Zac Schraeder: travel just is sustainable and responsible and we're doing it wrong.

Erin Hynes: So are you ready to alpaca your bags?

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