A GUIDING FRAMEWORK FOR TOURISM DESTINATIONS
The Cape Cod Sustainable Transformation Charter was co-created November 4-6, 2025 at the 2025 World Tourism Forum, hosted by the Center for Responsible Travel and CARE for the Cape & Islands on Cape Cod, MA. The document was further drafted and refined in the months that followed.
How Can We Sustain and Transform?
Such is tourism’s paradox: a global economic engine built on movement – yet that very movement skirts the edge of collapse. The weight of tourism – environmental, cultural, infrastructural – threatens to erode the very places and communities it depends on. That’s not sustainable. It demands transformation.