Category: Community-based tourism

Community Tourism
Jonathan Tourtellot

Top 100: Međimurje, Croatia

Every year, the global Green Destinations Top 100 competition invites candidates to submit stories on sustainable management of tourism and its impacts. From last year’s winner, we’ve selected this submission from Croatia on how to preserve a rural area’s sense of place in a modernizing region. Synopsis by Ailin Fei. 

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Community-based tourism
Jonathan Tourtellot

Top 100: Obuse, Japan

Every year, the global Green Destinations Top 100 competition invites candidates to submit stories about sustainable management of tourism and its impacts. We’ve selected this 2023 winner from Japan about a healthy way to boost off-season tourism. Synopsis by Mackenzie Morrow.  Runners, walkers and joggers enjoy the vibe at the

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Thai Villagers Save Themselves with Tourism

Every year, the global Green Destinations Top 100 competition invites candidates to submit stories about sustainable management of tourism and its impacts. In this selection we learn how, when external forces began disrupting a Thai village’s fishing economy and way of life, community-based sustainable tourism helped save the day. Abstract

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Milky What?

Worldwide, destinations still graced with brilliantly starry skies are discovering they have an increasingly rare tourism asset, one that can draw stargazers, boost ecotourism, and even enhance spiritual travel. A great way to advertise and protect that asset is to obtain an international Dark Sky certification. Ian Vorster explains the

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People-Powered Preservation in Japan

Another winner from the Top 100 – Every year, Green Destinations organizes the Top 100 Destination Sustainability Stories competition, which invites submissions from around the world – a vetted collection of stories spotlighting local and regional destinations that are making progress toward sustainable management of tourism and its impacts. As

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Community Tourism
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The Tacana Women’s Route, Bolivia

Another winner from the Top 100 – Every year, Green Destinations organizes the Top 100 Destination Sustainability Stories competition, which invites submissions from around the world – a vetted collection of stories spotlighting local and regional destinations that are making progress toward sustainable management of tourism and its impacts. As

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Secrets of the Kasbah

Morocco’s renowned Kasbah du Toubkal has racked up a three-decade record for good stewardship and community relations. Few lodges have had such a profound impact on their surrounding communities. During a visit, Jonathan Tourtellot learns how this came to be. Mountain Lodge Shows What It Takes to Marry Success with

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Conference as a Stewardship Model

Wes Espinosa, CEO of our partner CREST, explains why the structure of the innovative 2024 two-day meeting he organized in Atlanta models the collaborative principles of good destination stewardship, up close and personal. How a tourism event can demonstrate community engagement for destinations In September 2024, CREST held its annual

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Heritage and Nature Find Harmony

Another winner from the Top 100 – Every year, Green Destinations organizes the Top 100 Destination Sustainability Stories competition, which invites submissions from around the world – a vetted collection of stories spotlighting local and regional destinations that are making progress toward sustainable management of tourism and its impacts. As

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Uxua’s Tale – Coping with Political Hostility

You are creating a sustainable, lovely, fair-labor beach resort in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Unfortunately, a less-than-fair local establishment doesn’t appreciate it – stressing their point with an act of demolition. The Uxua hotel’s co-owner Bob Shevlin describes the process then needed to rework community relations. “Going it Alone”

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