Charting a Regenerative Pathway for Tourism in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
Huge congratulations to Chloe King, one of our PhD students in the Department of Geography, who has won the Early Career Researcher Award at the 2025 Cambridge Awards for Research Impact and Engagement for her outstanding work in the Galápagos Islands.
Chloe’s research explores regenerative theory and its application to tourism through a political ecology lens, examining how conservation and development priorities are negotiated, contested, and ultimately reconciled through tourism practices.
Her work has already made a significant real-world impact, directly informing Ecuador’s 2024 UNESCO State of Conservation Report, as well as contributing to the first comprehensive tourism strategy that incorporates regenerative principles and strengthens alignment between national and local policy.
Read more about Chloe’s award and research here:
https://www.cam.ac.uk/public-engagement/cambridge-awards/2025/early-career-researcher/winner1 https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/c.king/