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Saving the Spinners: A remote Brazilian archipelago turns dolphin protection into a sustainable tourism model

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

January 11, 2026

A Visitor’s Take on Scottish Destination Stewardship

The name of Scotland comes up frequently in matters of sustainability and good destination stewardship. While on holiday there, Executive Editor Jonathan Tourtellot kept an eye out for examples. This is what he found, with all photography thanks to him. The Kelpies are unique, well executed, and true to the

January 8, 2026

Ecotourism

Tourists Overwhelm Wildebeest in Annual Serengeti Migration

On July 21, 2025, wildlife guide and photographer, Nick Kleer, posted an Instagram reel and photo that showed a crush of tourists watching the great Masai Mara wildebeest migration in the Serengeti. “Herds were forced to scatter, some ran for cliffs and jumped in panic,” he noted in his

August 18, 2025

How Marine Protected Areas Address Overtourism

When shorelines, coral reefs, and small islands are involved, tourism can both support and interfere with conservation. When visitation gets out of hand, stewards of these places need guidance. When asked for help, a unique network of researchers, managers, and others – the membership of OCTO – volunteered some responses

April 14, 2025

Park Protection the Indigenous Way

It is still unusual for a national government to make a conservation deal with indigenous groups, even more so when it means repeatedly shutting down a heavily visited national park. The team from Colombia’s Tayrona park explains this successful agreement. In Tayrona, Colombia, Indigenous Values Give a National Park Time

January 16, 2025

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The Birds of Aqaba

August 26, 2024

50 Años de Ciclismo y Conservación

EN ES Otro ganador del Top 100: cada año, Green Destinations organiza el concurso Top 100 Destination Sustainability Stories, que invita a presentar propuestas de todo el mundo: una colección de historias que destacan destinos locales y regionales que están avanzando hacia la gestión sostenible del turismo y sus impactos.

May 5, 2024

50 Years of Cycling and Conservation

EN ES 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

April 28, 2024

Panama Tourism to Empower Local and Indigenous Communities

Inequity in distribution of tourism income is a major problem in much of Latin America, especially for indigenous communities. Now Panama is taking tangible steps to fix that, beginning with ten pilot projects and a focus on nature and tradition.

October 28, 2022

Repairing Tourism in Transylvania County, NC

How popular North Carolina Transylania county created a locally supported program to clean up wear and tear from tourism.

July 29, 2022

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