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“Inspiring Places” Pilot Video Released
Featuring Sierra Gorda, Querétaro, Mexico. We chose this UNESCO Biosphere Reserve as the international pilot for the World’s Inspiring Places series. Here’s why.
January 28, 2018
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Sierra Gorda To Lead New Video Series
Our First “World’s Inspiring Places,” a Short-Form Travel Documentary: Producer Erika Gilsdorf explains what inspired HER to launch this video series, focused on great stewardship of destinations.
January 9, 2018
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Nominate Now: 2018 Sustainable Destinations Top 100
Albert Salman asks for nominations for next year’s global Sustainable Destinations Top 100 competition. Anyone can nominate, from an impressed (and knowledgeable) traveler to the destination’s own representatives.
December 18, 2017
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Controlling Overtourism Requires Destination Councils
At GSTC’s annual meeting, this year in Chile, hot topics included overtourism and the need for destination stewardship councils. Here, a set of recent news and comment on these topics.
September 7, 2017
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Destination Monitor Selections
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