The new Winter issue of the Destination Stewardship Report (2022 Q1 Vol.2, No. 3) includes some excellent changes. You’ll see a freshened design, courtesy of GSTC’s Tiffany Chan. The Center for Responsible Travel (CREST) has now joined the DSR partnership, and CREST’s Ellen Rugh has provided immeasurable editorial help. This issue includes six feature stories.
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. This Top 100 entry, submitted in 2021 from
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 100 winners announced in October 2021,
A 10-year journal relates what it takes to align a destination’s differing stakeholders and separate agendas into a coherent sustainability program in Teton county, Wyoming, USA – better known as Jackson Hole, gateway to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.
Community-based ecotourism tourism: How South Korean villagers came together to establish a social cooperative — bolstering conservation, the local economy, and the social fabric of the village.
This year, the New York Times Travel section devoted its annual list of recommended destinations to places “where travelers can be part of the solution” – a sustainability first that recognizes the interactions between tourist and destination. How did the Times do? DSR editor Jonathan Tourtellot does a quick review
This quarterly e-newsletter is a collaboration between the Destination Stewardship Center, CREST, Global Sustainable Tourism Council, and in time maybe others. Our goal is to provide information and insights useful to anyone whose work or interests involve improving destination stewardship in a post-pandemic world. It’s an all-volunteer endeavor, so its
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. This entry, submitted in 2021 from Tunisia, shows
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. This entry, submitted in 2021 from Germany, shows
The pandemic has caused massive disruption to the tourism industry around the world. But it has also created an opportunity for destinations to reboot the sector to move forward in a more thoughtful and sustainable way. Here, Geoff Hyde shares how Vanuatu is doing just that. Living its Ni-Vanuatu Values:
Booze Crackdown in Spain’s Balearics | Guardian Locals fed up with drunken bahavior: “Tourism, yes, but not this way!”
Celebrity Power: Bad Bunny in Puerto Rico Supports Sustainable Tourism | Washington Post Jamica’s Sunken Port Royal Now on World Heritage List | Travel & Leisure Morocco’s Gnaoua Music Festival Said to Lose Authenticity | TTW As tourism rises, founding African diaspora communities fade Greenland Town Divided Over Cruise Ships | Guardian Ilulissat locals say they’re frozen out of cruise bounty Too Much Success on Scotland’s 500 Drive | NY Times Tourism on Peru’s Rainbow Mountain Sparked a Visionary’s Murder | Bloomburg Patagonia’s Popular Perito Moreno Glacier No Longer Stable |Guardian U.S. “Best Idea” Squeezed, Cowed, Endangered | NY Times Expert’s essay warns of national parks’ decline Chamorro of Saipan Are Re-establishing Traditional Sailing Canoes | CBS News Foundering Paradise – Panama’s Guna Yala | Afar Cook Island Destination Stewardship Plan Stresses Cultural Integrity | Cook Island News English Village Doomed by its Charm | Guardian Cotswolds overtourism peaks in Bibury