ATLAS SIG Circular Economy Webinar
ATLAS SIG Circular Economy Webinar
December 5, 2025 – 12.00 CET
Hospitality transition to Circular Economy
A conversation with Marten Lewis – Bluestone National Park Resorts (UK)
We are pleased to invite you to the webinar organised by the ATLAS Special Interest Group (SIG) Circular Economy in Tourism and Hospitality having as a Guest Speaker Marten Lewis, Director of Sustainability at Bluestone National Park Resorts (UK).
Bluestone National Park Resort is a 5* luxury, self-catering holiday resort in Pembrokeshire, nestled in 500 acres of protected Welsh National Park countryside. Bluestone illustrates how a hospitality business can move towards circular and regenerative models of operation. Their sustainability strategy revolves around four strategic pillars: (i) Decarbonise, (ii) Regenerate Nature, (iii) Circular Economy, and (iv) Community. These pillars guide actions ranging from waste reduction and energy transition to biodiversity restoration and local partnerships.
This webinar offers the opportunity to discuss with Mr. Marten Lewis – Director of Sustainability the vision, mission, challenges, and opportunities involved in the resort’s transition toward Circular Economy.
- The webinar will take place 5 December at 12:00 CET (1h30’)
- The webinar is free to attend for ATLAS members and non-members
- The webinar will take place in ZOOM
- Registration is mandatory
- You can register to attend the webinar HERE
Webinar Agenda
– Opening & Welcoming
ATLAS Chair Corné Dijksma? (or Tara Duncan Vice Chair?)
– Introduction & Moderation
Lucia Tomassini & Elena Cavagnaro – NHL Stenden University (SIG coordinators)
– Keynote presentation
Marten Lewis, Director of Sustainability – Bluestone National Park Resorts (UK)
– Q&A and open discussion with the audience
Moderators
Lucia Tomassini
Lucia Tomassini is a Research Lecturer in Sustainability in Hospitality and Tourism at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences and at the University of Groningen, Campus Fryslan, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. At NHL Stenden, she is responsible fror the project and research line of Circular Economy in Hospitality and Tourism. Her academic research embraces studies on the relationship between the tourism and development agenda, urban planning, social-geography, sustainability and circular economy, animal-based tourism, wildlife tourism, and posthuman approaches in tourism studies.
Elena Cavagnaro
Elena Cavagnaro holds a MA from the University of Rome and a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Since 2004 she is professor at NHL Stenden (The Netherlands), first of service studies and then of sustainability in hospitality and tourism. She is associate professor at the University of Groningen and visiting professor at the Universities of Derby and of Sunderland (UK) and Bergamo (Italy). Following her understanding of sustainability as a multi-dimensional and multi-layered concept, her research focuses on issues that run across and connect the social, organizational and individual layer of sustainability.