Over 400 hours of footage was captured during production.
The Last Tourist won the Special Jury Prize for Social Impact at the 2021 Calgary International Film Festival.
The closing music track of the film, Wander, was written and performed by Heidi Webster.
The Last Tourist was nominated for The Rob Steward Eco Warrior Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival in October of 2021.
Cinematographer Stephen Chandler Whitehead won The Robert Brooks Award for Documentary Long Format Cinematography at the 2021 Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC) awards for his work on The Last Tourist.