New Sustainability Criteria for Destinations
December 13, 2012
Posted By: Manolis Psarros
The Global Sustainable Tourism Council’s Criteria for Destinations are designed to orient destination managers, communities, and businesses toward the steps that are needed to sustain their natural and cultural assets, while benefiting local communities. The Destination Criteria complement the existing GSTC Criteria for Hotels and Tour Operators, which have become a worldwide standard for tourism businesses.
Based on the results of the first phase of this project, which included an international public call for feedback and pilot testing of the criteria in six Early Adopter Destinations around the world, the GSTC has revised and improved the Destination Criteria.
The new draft version is available for public consultation and input until February 15, 2013.
These comments, along with feedback received via early-adopter destinations, will inform a final version of the Destination Criteria.
More info: www.gstcouncil.org
COMMENTS
manolis
Our pleasure David!
David Friesner
Thanks so much for this information. Sustainability is exactly what each business and destination within tourism should be working towards and aspiring to. Sustainability needs to be built into the strategic development of every destination, must be written into the business plan for destination development and then designed into operational activity and delivery. Sustainability is so much easier to achieve if it is designed into and planned within a destination's development strategy from the very start.