Autumn 2022 October - December
Volume 3, Issue 2
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Partnering for Destination Stewardship in Florida
In much of the U.S., state DMOs remain focused on marketing and don’t address stewardship efforts. Who, then, will? Dr. Brooke Hansen describes the initial success of two partnership arrangements incorporating the hospitality industry in the greater Tampa Bay area.
Beautification Nonprofits Take the Lead
Two Keep America Beautiful Affiliates in west central Florida have taken up the role of leading destination stewardship by collaborating with several key partners. Destination stewardship is integral to upholding the triple bottom line of sustainable tourism, but to be successful, it needs to promote participatory governance, inclusion of diverse stakeholders and residents, valuation of ecosystem services, and integrity of culture and place. It also needs to align with global integrative frameworks such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Tourism 4 SDGs...
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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. Iván Eskildsen, the nation’s Minister of Tourism, explains.
Our National Plan Intends To Preserve and Regenerate Ecosystems and Ancestral Traditions
As Panama aspires to become a world-class sustainable tourism destination, local communities need to be considered at the very center of the tourism phenomenon, or sustainability will not be achieved. This philosophy is at the heart of Panama’s Sustainable Tourism Master Plan...
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 A Revealing Ocean View of Tourism
A “High Level” international Ocean Panel has come out with a blunt change-your-ways-or-else report aimed at the customary models for coastal and marine tourism. Norwegian journalist and consultant-participant Arild Molstad sums up the content and opines about its implications for any destination with a port and a coast.
A call for regenerative tourism on coastal destinations
“The very thing that draws people to coastal and marine destinations continues to be threatened by tourism itself. The unprecedented pause in global tourism has provided a unique opportunity to reassess and reset.” So states a recent report on international coastal zones – Opportunities for Transforming Coastal and Marine Tourism.* Co-authored by the 17 nations** of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Ocean Panel)...
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Key Takeaways from CREST’s Forum on Destination Stewardship
 What does it mean to implement a destination stewardship model? What are the successes and challenges communities face throughout the process? And what does a shift towards stewardship mean for destination marketing? Alix Collins summarizes the key takeaways from the 2022 World Tourism Day Forum.
A Better Way Forward
For this year’s World Tourism Day Forum (27 Sept. 2022), we at the Center for Responsible Travel (CREST) wanted to shine a light on destination stewardship. Initially, we were going to focus on the challenge of shifting from marketing to management, but implementing the destination stewardship model isn’t just about marketing. It’s also about governance, funding structures, stakeholder engagement, political will, and community and private sector buy-in. So we shifted our focus...
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A Call for Climate Collaboration at the First Ever Future-of-Tourism Summit
 After two Covid-wracked years, the Future of Tourism Coalition was able to convene its first face-to-face summit on 29 Sept. 2022. Held in Athens, Greece, the Coalition conference focused on climate mitigation and adaptation. Kate Lewis reports.
Businesses and Destinations Asked to Partner-Up for Change Ahead
On 29 September the inaugural Future of Tourism Summit, held in Athens and live-streamed globally, brought together NGOs, businesses and destination organisations to demonstrate the need for “radical collaboration” to adapt to future needs. The focus of the day was climate action, within the framework of...
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Two Winners 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. From the winners announced this year, we’ve selected two more stories, this time from Zambia and Greece, that showcase different reasons for engaging the local community. Synopses by Josie Burd. |
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Livingstone, Zambia Creates a ‘Forest of Faces’
Top 100 submission by Rosie Mercer, Business Development Manager at Destination Livingstone Initiative.
Tapping Local Wood-Carving Talent Gives Livingstone a Competitive Step Up – and a Lesson in Stewardship
Just 10km away from Victoria Falls, one of the seven natural wonders of the world, Livingstone relies on tourism for its main economic activity. However, the town of Victoria Falls across the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe had been getting most of the tourism traffic. So how does Livingstone draw those people back in? In 2019, their community created a Destination Management Plan (DMP) to brainstorm opportunities to improve the situation. They also…
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Revitalizing the Kypseli Neighborhood in Athens
Top 100 submission by Alexia Panagiotopoulou, Head of Strategy, Athens Development and Destination Management Agency.
Revitalizing the Kypseli Neighborhood Began with a Holistic Redo of its Core Agora
Amidst the densely packed historic neighborhood of Kypseli stands a building that has gone through lifetimes of change. The Kypseli Agora is one of the last permanent neighborhood markets in Athens, a traditional gathering place for the community. Fondly recalled memories of after-school ice cream visits and weekend shopping for fresh foods with their parents roll off the tongues of elderly residents as they reminisce about how the market felt more like a second home than a place of business...
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Hosted in the beautiful historic city of Seville in Spain, the GSTC2022 Global Sustainable Tourism Conference on December 12 - 15, 2022 will bring together stakeholders involved in the development and promotion of sustainable travel & tourism.
The conference will hold a mixture of panel discussions and interactive workshops with Destination Stewardship being one of the four themes. Thought-leading speakers will share their insights on topics such as the role of standards and certification in destination stewardship, the interpretation of cultural heritage, NTO-driven public-private promotion of goals and certification, Türkiye's Green Tourism Scheme, and more.
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November 28 - December 1, 2022 | 22nd World Travel & Tourism Council Global Summit | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia & virtual. This gathering of travel industry leaders and key government representatives intends to continue aligning efforts to support the sector’s recovery and move to a safer, more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable future. Invitation-only, but you can submit an enquiry if you wish to attend.
March 7 - 9, 2023 | ITB Berlin | Berlin, Germany. Global trends, leading experts, and current best practice examples: One of the world's most important travel industry conventions offers keynotes, panel discussions, expert interviews, and awards on groundbreaking topics in areas such as travel technology, marketing and distribution, future travel, sustainability, and social responsibility.
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Collected by Josie Burd. Note: Descriptions are taken from publisher blurbs.
Apollo, M. (2022). Mountaineering Adventure Tourism and Local Communities: Social, Environmental and Economics Interactions. Edward Elgar. Focuses on the socio-economic and environmental issues of the impact of mountaineering adventure tourism on local communities.Uses empirical evidence from interviews held in the Himalayas combined with a theoretical grounding,
Gowreesunkar, V.G.B., Maingi, S.W., & Ming’ate, F.L.M. (2022). Management of Tourism Ecosystem Services in a Post Pandemic Context. Routledge. An exploration of the challenges faced by destinations regarding the management and restoration of their ecosystem services.
Hugues, S., & Yallop, A.C. (2022). Overtourism and Tourism Education: A strategy for sustainable tourism futures. Routledge. An investigation of overtourism from a tourism education perspective with original research on overtourism, education, and sustainability. Puts forward a range of practical and transformative tourism education strategies to mitigate overtourism and to promote the sustainable destination development.
Stodola, S. (2022). The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach. Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Captivating exploration of beach resort culture from its roots to its undervalued role in today’s world economy as the travel industry approaches a climate reckoning.
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Volunteer Opportunities
The Destination Stewardship Center seeks an experienced volunteer managing editor for this Report. We also need a tech-savvy gap-year graduate or apprentice (WordPress, Google Suite, social media), as well as sharp interns with good editorial skills. Contact us with a cv and writing samples.
Submission Requests
The Destination Stewardship Report relies entirely on submitted articles and notices, not to mention corrections and suggestions. All submissions must pertain to some aspect of destination stewardship, be shorter than 1,000 words, and avoid self-promotion. Photos welcome. What story can you tell that would help others? To contribute a story, contact us with your ideas. Your next issue is planned for January 2023.
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The Destination Stewardship Report is an e-quarterly collaboration between the Destination Stewardship Center, Global Sustainable Tourism Council, and Center for Responsible Travel. It seeks to provide practical information and insights useful to anyone whose work or interests involve improving destination stewardship. Its success will depend on your interest, feedback, and content contributions. Join us, and help each other. Subscribe HERE.
Sponsored by:
  
Executive Editor – Jonathan B. Tourtellot
Associate Managing Editor – Alix Collins
Assistant Editor – Amber Smith
Illustrations Editor – Gabe Gerson
Scheduling, design & distribution – Tiffany Chan
Editorial assistance – Martha Mulokoshi, Samantha Bray, Josie Burd,
Cindy Linnell, Michele Archie, Ellen Rugh, Paula Lewis, Chi Lo
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