Comprehensive Articles Archive
Five Years of Useful Stories 2020-2025
Below you will find every feature article that has appeared in the Destination Stewardship Report over its publication history. The stories constitute a valuable resource. Even the earliest contain helpful insights and examples.
This participatory e-publication is a collaboration among (left to right above) the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), the Destination Stewardship Center, and the Center for Responsible Travel (CREST) – and in time, maybe others. Learn more.
Our goal is to provide information and insights useful to anyone whose work or interests involve the interaction between tourism and care for places. We welcome your ideas and submissions.
The links below take you to each issue, seen as it arrives in your in-box, and to each feature story therein. You can subscribe for free here.
WINTER 2024 ISSUE
The Winter 2024 issue mailed in January 2025.
- UXUA’s Tale – Coping with Political Hostility
- Park Protection the Indigenous Way
- Conference as a Stewardship Model
- Opinion: Cruise Crisis
- Cultivating Stewardship
- Two More Winners From the Top 100:
Heritage and Nature in Hungary
How Estonia Cleaned Up Its Big Event
MAY-AUGUST 2024 ISSUE
The May-August issue mailed at the end of August 2024.
JANUARY-APRIL 2024 ISSUE
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:
SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2023 ISSUE
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
MAY-AUGUST 2023 ISSUE
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
JANUARY-APRIL 2023 ISSUE
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:
AUTUMN 2022 ISSUE
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:
SUMMER 2022 ISSUE
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
SPRING 2022 ISSUE
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:
WINTER 2022 ISSUE
See the complete Issue here: Winter 2022. Feature stories are:
AUTUMN 2021 ISSUE
See the complete Issue here: Autumn 2021. Feature stories are:
SUMMER 2021 ISSUE
See the complete Issue here: Summer 2021. Feature stories are:
SPRING 2021 ISSUE
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:
WINTER 2021 ISSUE
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
AUTUMN 2020 ISSUE
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
SUMMER 2020 ISSUE
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
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