Introduction and Articles Archive
This participatory e-publication, the Destination Stewardship Report, is a collaboration among (left to right above) the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), the Destination Stewardship Center, and CREST – and in time, maybe others.
Our goal is to provide information and insights useful to anyone whose work or interests involve destination stewardship. It’s an all-volunteer experiment, so its success will depend on your interest, feedback, and content contributions. Join us, and help each other.
Most DS Report feature stories have a long shelf life – still relevant long after publication. The links below take you to each issue, seen as it arrives in your in-box complete with links to the feature stories. In the e-mailed Report you will also see text blocks on Upcoming Events, Publications, Announcements and Webinars, and selections from the Destination Monitor.
You can subscribe for free here or read each issue on our webpages. If you don’t see the Report in your in-box, check whether your email platform has put it in Promotions or Spam.
Articles Archive 2020-2024
2024
The May-August issue mailed at the end of August 2024.
- The Los Angeles DMO Adopts Destination Stewardship
- The Encouraging If Uneven Rise of Destination Stewardship – Editor’s commentary
- Nepal’s Community Homestay Network
- Engaging Travelers in Destination Stewardship
- Pioneering Community-Owned Tourism in the Maldives
- Two More Winners From the Top 100:
The January-April issue mailed at the end of April 2024.
Indigenous Tourism eLibrary Offers Guidance for Destinations
- Two More Winners From the Top 100:
2023
The September-December issue emailed in November 2023,
- Architectural Tactics for Dispersing Tourism: Lessons from Australia’s Great Ocean Road
- Two More Winners From the Top 100:
- Bypassed by Visitors: How One Community Tackles Undertourism
- Historic Thai City Finds Ways to Solve Tourist Waste
Partnership with a Purpose: Takeaways from the Power of Partnership Summit
The May-August issue emailed on 8 August 2023.
- Bahamas Destination Stewardship Initiative – a conversation
- B.C. Indigenous Guardians Program – protecting their coast
- Preserving Living Culture on Rhodes – or not
- South Pacific Pushes Back on MegaCruises – but will governments go along?
- Two More Winners From the Top 100:
- Brazil’s Diamantina Redefines a Tradition – so as to redefine tourism
- Fighting Poverty in Kyrgystan with Handicraft Tourism – a boon for women
The January-April issue emailed on 17 April 2023.
- Tourism in Colombia Sails Towards Peace – Opinion
- How to build a community-centered destination stewardship initiative
- Regenerative and sustainable tourism in the Willamette Valley
- Destination Stewardship: Collaboration, Standards, and Good Policy – report from GSTC in Seville
- How can we all be better destination stewards? – a family travel perspective
- Two More Winners From the Top 100:
2022
The Autumn 2022 issue emailed first week of November.
- Partnering for Stewardship in gulf coast Florida – without government support
- Future-of-Tourism Summit on Climate held in Athens – summarized
- Panama Tourism to Empower Local and Indigenous Communities
- A Revealing Ocean View of Tourism by the International High Panel
- CREST’s Forum On Destination Stewardship – key points
- Two More Winners From the Top 100 Rely on Indigenous Tradition:
The Summer 2022 issue emailed the first week of August.
- A Malaysian District Collaborates Lest Tourism Run Wild
- Disaster Recovery in Evia, Greece
- Cultivating Comprehensive Destination Stewardship with GSTC Criterion A4
- Two More Winners From the Top 100 Destination Sustainability Stories:
- Brazil’s Bombinhas Learns About Itself
- Repairing Tourism in Transylvania County, NC
- To Market Stewardship, Use Local Voices
See the complete Spring 2022 issue here. Feature stories are:
- Doing It Better: Big Bay, Michigan
- Two from Slovenia:
- Svalbard Overheating
- Two More Winners From the Top 100 Rely on Indigenous Tradition:
See the complete Issue here: Winter 2022. Feature stories are:
- Cooperation on Jeju Island, Korea
- Doing It Better: Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland
- Teton County (USA) Stewardship Journal
- By Their Bootstraps: Homemade Heritage Tourism in Peru
- Battle Over a Dam Spawns a New Green Destination in Bosnia
- OPINION: The NY Times’s Selection of Sustainable Destinations
2021
See the complete Issue here: Autumn 2021. Feature stories are:
- Italy’s Matera Copes With Overtourism – and James Bond
- Sprawling Västerbotten, Sweden Collaborates on Sustainability
- Two From India:
- Vanuatu Tourism Gets a Reboot
- Two Winners From the Top 100:
- Sign the Glasgow Declaration on Climate!
See the complete Issue here: Summer 2021. Feature stories are:
- Palau: A Conservation Culture
- Localizing a Vermont Tour
- Doing It Better: Pennsylvania Wilds, USA
- Two from Chile:
- Resources for Tourism Recovery
- Webinar reports:
See the complete Issue here: Spring 2021. Feature stories are:
- The Nisga’a of B.C. Offer an Indigenous Tourism Model
- Saving Cultural Heritage: The Singapore Hawkers Case
- Doing It Better: Sedona, Arizona
- Once Overrun, Dubrovnik Plans for Sustainability
- Opinion: A Chance to Tame Cruise Tourism
- Japan’s Journey Toward Sustainability
- New Sustainability App Can Help Destinations
- Webinar reports:
See the complete Issue here: Winter 2021. Report includes these featured stories:
- Riviera Maya’s Queen of Green by Dr. Jonathon Day
- Even in Affluent Norway, Innkeepers Have Struggled by Arild Molstad
- Our 5th “Doing it Better” profile: Namibia’s K-H Conservancy by Jonathan Tourtellot
- Overtourism and Undertourism in Protected Areas by Dr. Anna Spenceley
- A Taiwanese Island Boosts Tourist Capacity – Sustainably by Monique Chen
- Neolocalism and Tourism by Dr. Christina Cavaliere
2020
See the complete Issue here: Autumn 2020. Report includes these featured stories:
- The Greening of Gritty Ulsan, South Korea by Dr. Mihee Kang and Seok Yoon
- 10 Ways to Reset Your Tourism Model Post-Covid by Florian Kaefer
- Pandemic Tourism Brings Surprises to Serbia by Ivana Damnjanović
- Columbia Gorge: Our 4th “Doing it Better” profile by Jacqueline Harper
- Mallorca Tries to Tame Tourism by Daza Garcia
- How Data Science Can Help Destinations by Irene Lane
See the complete Issue here: Summer 2020 – Inaugural Issue. Report includes these featured stories:
- In Italy’s Dolomites, a “Future Lab” Inspires DMO Innovation by Marta Mills
- Engaging Gateway Communities for a U.S. National Park by Kelly Bricker
- Crete Needs to Restore Its Gastronomic Heritage by Nikki Rose
- GSTC’s criterion A1 on destination management – its context and importance by Randy Durband and Jonathan Tourtellot
- Anna Maria Island, Florida Offers a Model for Sustainable Stewardship by David Randle
- The Elaborate Process of Revising GSTC’s Destination Criteria by Kelly Bricker and Richard and Jackie Denman
For more information and participation please contact us. —Jonathan Tourtellot, Executive Editor
- About the Global Sustainable Tourism Council GSTC establishes and manages global sustainable standards, known as the GSTC Criteria. There are two sets: Destination Criteria for public policy-makers and destination managers, and Industry Criteria for hotels and tour operators. The GSTC Criteria form the foundation for accreditation of certification bodies that certify hotels/accommodations, tour operators, and destinations as having sustainable policies and practices in place. GSTC does not directly certify any products or services; but it accredits those that do. The GSTC is an independent and neutral USA-registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization that represents a diverse and global membership, including national and provincial governments, NGO’s, leading travel companies, hotels, tour operators, individuals and communities – all striving to achieve best practices in sustainable tourism. www.gstc.org
- About the Destination Stewardship Center The DSC is a volunteer-driven nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the world’s distinctive places by supporting wisely managed tourism and enlightened destination stewardship. We gather and provide information on how tourism can help and not harm the natural, cultural, and social quality of destinations around the world. We seek to build a global community and knowledge network for advancing this goal. Join us and learn more at www.destinationcenter.org.
- About CREST The Center for Responsible Travel (CREST) is a global nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC dedicated to increasing the positive global impact of responsible tourism. CREST provides evidence-based research and analysis to governments, policymakers, tourism businesses, nonprofit organizations, and international agencies to solve the most pressing problems confronting tourism, the world’s largest service industry.