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
Category: Destination Stewardship Report
Svalbard Overheating
With its coal mines now closing, Norway’s polar archipelago of Svalbard faces a unique set of threats: disrupted tourism, rising temperatures, and increased international vying for arctic control. Yet its extreme location also provides a unique set of opportunities for reviving tourism.
May 7, 2022
Slovenia’s Green Gourmet Tourist Route
Slovenia Green Gourmet Route is an innovative product based on principles of responsibility. The route emphasizes the sustainable and gastronomic features of the country and brings benefits to local providers and communities.
May 6, 2022
Nationwide Tourism Change: Slovenia Shows How To Do It
Slovenia has created a program that has been adopted by communities throughout the country, creating an “ecosystem” of some 60 sustainable destinations.
May 6, 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
Destination Stewardship Report
Doing It Better: Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland
On a long, skinny Icelandic peninsula, five small municipalities have teamed up to create a modest destination stewardship council and supporting network. Tiffany Chan explores the Snæfellsnes model of sustainable collaboration – a work in progress that has already earned a platinum sustainability rating. The eighth in our series on destination stewardship councils.
February 14, 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
Teton County Stewardship Journal
A 10-year journal relates what it takes to align a destination’s differing stakeholders and separate agendas into a coherent sustainability program in Teton county, Wyoming, USA – better known as Jackson Hole, gateway to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.
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
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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