The New Destination Stewardship Report Puts Yet More Information at Your Service

By Jonathan Tourtellot, CEO and Executive Editor

Our latest DSR issue adds still more to the array of information – pages, postings, news links, directories, and subdirectories – available on the Destination Stewardship Center website. We hope this knowledge might help anyone from professionals to private citizens who seek to protect and enhance distinctive places. It’s all free. Take a look:

What’s in the Destination Stewardship Report

On the  Destination Stewardship Report Comprehensive Articles page you will find not just a link to every issue in e-mail form, but also direct links to every DSR feature story that we have ever done, as well as selected stories from the Top 100 contest conducted by our friends at Green Destinations.

We can produce the January 2026 publication of the Report (Volume 6, Issue 2), thanks to our informal partnerships with Global Sustainable Tourism Council and others, as well as our team of volunteer editors, writers, and proofreaders. Our thanks to all of them. (And, yes, we would welcome additional help!)

In this issue, you’ll find:

• Useful for many destinations: the recommendations in the Cape Cod Charter (or more formally, Sustainable Transformation Charter), born of an unusual conference held there in Dennisport, MA, USA late in 2025.
• A review of how tourist taxes are used by destinations that actually reveal that information.
• My own encounters with Scotland‘s inspiring approaches to destination stewardship.
• An account of what sustainability-training for tourism businesses did for the reputation of Sri Lanka’s iconic Sigiriya historic site.
• More answers about tourism and marine areas from OCTO (Open Communications for the Ocean).
• Two more Top 100 winners, this time from Thailand and Brazil.

That’s not all. In addition to D S Report stories, the Destination Stewardship Center website offers the Destination Monitor, an informal tracker of significant news stories on destination stewardship progress or failure in places all over the world; and  Stewardship Resource directories, whose extensive entries list organizations, partners, companies, and allies in various fields pertaining to destination stewardship.

Reference – In particular, take a look at our newly updated Library, revised and expanded courtesy of Ailin Fei. It presents a growing collection of books, reports and papers, and webinars and documentaries. all organized into nine topic categories.

Finding Information on the DSC Website

If you are in search of particular topic, see the Guide to Website Content. If you want to see whether we have anything on a particular place or a specific subject take a look at the Index. Just to get a better idea of the information available, check out the Sample Questions page, with links to actionable answers and examples for practitioners facing challenges in their work.

Compiling useful, actionable information on destination stewardship is a never-ending but fascinating task. We welcome your comments, suggestions, corrections, and additions. Your help, too!