From ESG to Nature Strategy: Why Tourism Businesses Need Place-Based Nature Data

TNFD frames nature through dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities across governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets. Its alignment material connects this direction with IFRS S1, while the ISSB's work is moving nature-related information further into standard-setting.

For tourism, this matters because operations and guest value depend on functioning places: water, coastlines, landscapes, biodiversity, infrastructure, suppliers and community relationships.

A group-level ESG indicator may show direction but miss the conditions around a property, project or destination. Place-based information asks which ecosystems and people the decision depends on, where pressure occurs, which parties hold knowledge, what baseline is proportionate, and what can genuinely be monitored over time.

Start with one operational or investment decision rather than a broad nature-positive claim. Map dependencies and impacts at an appropriate level. Identify missing evidence and qualified specialists. Select indicators that can guide action. Record uncertainty and partner contributions. Review whether the intervention should adapt, stop or scale.

Regenera can frame decisions, participation and evidence architecture, and connect findings to implementation. Ecological surveys, biodiversity baselines requiring specialist methods, formal disclosure assurance and verification remain with appropriately qualified specialists.