Can travel help save the world’s most threatened languages?

Adventure.com

Close up of ʻipu (hula implement)

- Photo: HTA/John Hook

featured quote by Mālia Sanders, Executive Director of NaHHA

“We’re adapting [the Western model of tourism] to our Indigenous thought process in our Indigenous culture and our Indigenous language … to sort of make that mindset shift for our visitor,” says Sanders. Language aspects of culture, via an Indigenous-led model of tourism, can become a pull factor for a destination this way. The monetary influx of tourism can then go back into the hands of host communities, who remain in charge of generating experiences and spaces that align with their living culture and practices to keep it flourishing.

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