If no good crisis should go to waste, DSC director Jonathan Tourtellot urges destinations to seize this one, forming stewardship councils that can oversee research and planning for the recovery. Plus a personal afterthought. Continue reading
Herewith the second of our profiles of destination organizations that at least partially meet the GSTC-D criterion for holistic destination management. In this post: Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico, which is adopting a multisector, high-tech “Intelligent Destination” approach. Continue reading
How should undiscovered coastal destinations handle sustainable tourism? Learn tips from Jonathan Tourtellot’s interview with Urdaibai, a Basque magazine. Continue reading
Appealing to tourists of diverse ages makes Madeira a robust destination over the long term – to the delight of this solo adventure traveler. Continue reading
…from the Destination Stewardship Center. Keep an eye out for news on the January release of our first “World’s Inspiring Places” video, on further developments in the battle to control “overtourism,“ on exemplary stewardship councils, and on a new initiative … Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Our associate Arild Molstad is working for Norway to adopt this strategy on a national level, in which case it could well become a model for other countries. We post his executive summary and a pdf of the entire Sustainable Travel and Tourism Roadmap for Norway. Continue reading
Melania Trump’s homeland is seen as being an authentic, green, and charming destination. What if Trump himself should show up on a state visit? His tourism-development style defies all that has made Slovenia successful. Continue reading
A 2016 travel fling to 41 World Heritage sites inspires admiration and respect for the renowned UNESCO-administered program, but also disappointment and frustration with a bureaucratic, underfunded system. Remedies exist, says Swen Lorenz, himself a World-Heritage-site veteran. Continue reading
Salli Felton, CEO of The Travel Foundation in the U.K., shows how mass tourism can get out of hand. There’s a solution, she says: Measure success in terms of impacts, not arrivals. The tools for doing so already exist. But does the will to use them? Continue reading