Brazil’s Bombinhas Learns About Itself
Methods for building community identity – What a Brazilian community did to rediscover itself in the face of growing tourism popularity.
July 29, 2022
Category: Community-based tourism
Doing It Better: Big Bay, Michigan
Take a look at how a low-population, outdoorsy locale – Big Bay, Michigan, USA – goes about convening a destination stewardship council after the extractive industries it once depended on have wound down.
May 9, 2022
Indigenous Guyanese Tap Tourism to Save Their Huge Fish
A Top 100 story from Guyana showcases how indigenous traditions can help communities revive endangered natural habitats, supported by responsible tourism.
May 8, 2022
Community-based tourism
Winter Issue of the Destination Stewardship Report Released
The new Winter issue of the Destination Stewardship Report (2022 Q1 Vol.2, No. 3) includes some excellent changes. You’ll see a freshened design, courtesy of GSTC’s Tiffany Chan. The Center for Responsible Travel (CREST) has now joined the DSR partnership, and CREST’s Ellen Rugh has provided immeasurable editorial help. This issue includes six feature stories.
February 17, 2022
Battle Over a Dam Spawns a New Green Destination in Bosnia
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. This Top 100 entry, submitted in 2021 from
February 9, 2022
By Their Bootstraps: Homemade Heritage Tourism in Peru
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. From the 100 winners announced in October 2021,
February 7, 2022
Cooperation on Jeju Island
Community-based ecotourism tourism: How South Korean villagers came together to establish a social cooperative — bolstering conservation, the local economy, and the social fabric of the village.
February 7, 2022
Rural Tunisians Join to Initiate Restorative Tourism
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. This entry, submitted in 2021 from Tunisia, shows
November 1, 2021
Bringing Bad Grund Back to Life
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. This entry, submitted in 2021 from Germany, shows
November 1, 2021
Achieving Collaboration in Västerbotten – A Swedish Tale
After the Västerbotten regional tourism authority developed its sustainable tourism initiative, it then faced the hurdle of how to get stakeholders on board. Annika Sandstrom, Region Tourism Chief, explains how they not only overcame this challenge, but also encouraged other destinations in the county to commit to better destination stewardship. Västerbotten Brings
November 1, 2021
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Destination Monitor Selections
Booze Crackdown in Spain’s Balearics | Guardian Locals fed up with drunken bahavior: “Tourism, yes, but not this way!”
Celebrity Power: Bad Bunny in Puerto Rico Supports Sustainable Tourism | Washington Post Jamica’s Sunken Port Royal Now on World Heritage List | Travel & Leisure Morocco’s Gnaoua Music Festival Said to Lose Authenticity | TTW As tourism rises, founding African diaspora communities fade Greenland Town Divided Over Cruise Ships | Guardian Ilulissat locals say they’re frozen out of cruise bounty Too Much Success on Scotland’s 500 Drive | NY Times Tourism on Peru’s Rainbow Mountain Sparked a Visionary’s Murder | Bloomburg Patagonia’s Popular Perito Moreno Glacier No Longer Stable |Guardian U.S. “Best Idea” Squeezed, Cowed, Endangered | NY Times Expert’s essay warns of national parks’ decline Chamorro of Saipan Are Re-establishing Traditional Sailing Canoes | CBS News Foundering Paradise – Panama’s Guna Yala | Afar Cook Island Destination Stewardship Plan Stresses Cultural Integrity | Cook Island News English Village Doomed by its Charm | Guardian Cotswolds overtourism peaks in Bibury