Climate-neutral tourism balances how many people travel against how much of that travel's footprint gets genuinely offset.
net_emissions = trips * (1 - offset_adoption) * per_trip_footprint
- Traveller volume — tourists moving through the destination network at any moment.
- Destination capacity — how many visitors a destination can host before overtourism strain sets in.
- Offset adoption — share of trips where travellers or operators purchase verified carbon offsets.
- Trip frequency — how often the modelled traveller population takes a new trip.
Destinations from Costa Rica to the Faroe Islands now bundle verified offsets and capacity caps into their tourism strategy to keep visitor growth climate-neutral.