Explore this growing section if you work in the travel industry, academia, government, or for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) involved with tourism management and stewardship of your locale. Civic leaders and proactive travelers may also find this section helpful. We want to help you find the resources you need to protect and enhance the places we care about.
The Destination Stewardship Center can provide recommendations and introductions to the consultants and organizations that can help your community, region, city, or country protect and improve its appeal. If interested, please contact us. Referrals are free, with no commitments or guarantees.
Guide to the Resource Directories
Use the top-line menu under “Stewardship Resources” to reach these various sections and subsections.
- General purpose resources for destination stewardship and sustainable tourism include:
- International Policy Organizations,
- General Sustainable-Destination Resources, and
- Multipurpose Services.
- Managing Destinations Resources for helping your destination holistically—in terms of sustainability, enhancement, and tourism management—with sections on:
- Communities—resources for civil society, citizens, and governments, including community tool kits
- Sense of Place—monetary and emotional value of distinctiveness
- Destination appeal —aesthetics, landscapes, urban planning
- [Marketing (this page to come) —how to attract the most beneficial tourists]
- Managing Tourism—practical stewardship- and tourism-related assistance for governments, NGOs, entrepreneurs, lodging managers, economic development workers, tour operators, etc.
- Environment & Ecotourism How-To
- Culture and Heritage How-To
- Gastronomy and Agritourism How-To
- Voluntourism How-To—Resources and mistakes to avoid.
- Indigenous tourism—How-to for native peoples.
- The Geotourism Approach—comprehensive concept, put forth via National Geographic, including guiding principles for destinations and enterprises
- For Travelers—Help for tourists with a stewardship mindset
- Academic Resources—universities, research groups, institutes
- Library—books and other publications
- Funding—governments, aid agencies, foundations, businesses, individuals, and crowds
These directories are under continual construction. If you or your organization belongs in one, please submit your proposed free listing, 50-word maximum, to info@destinationcenter.org .
Disclaimer: The Destination Stewardship Center provides these directories only as a public service and makes no representation as to the quality of any listee’s work, personnel, or track record. A listing herein does not constitute a recommendation.