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Spain Sustainable Tourism 2022 Drive

Spain Sustainable Tourism 2022 Drive

In its continuing drive to make the country’s tourism industry more sustainable Spain has announced the following initiatives. Balearic Islands to become first circular destination The Baearic Islands are aiming…

Senderos: Getting the Right Message Across

Senderos: Getting the Right Message Across

Mark Bibby Jackson talks with Simon Heyes, the founding director of Climate Friendly Travel Registry member Senderos, a marketing company that represents a portfolio of nature-based, sustainable travel experiences across Latin America. Often in…

RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2024

RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2024

The Malvern Spring Show or RHS Malvern Spring Festival will once more be held at Worcestershire’s Three Counties Showground in May. The four-day celebration of everything horticultural is held in…

Happy Do Year 2022

Happy Do Year 2022

Breaking with tradition Mark Bibby Jackson wishes all our Travel Begins at 40 readers a Happy Do Year 2022; one for action rather than words. 2022 is the Year of…

Svart: the Future of Hotels

Svart: the Future of Hotels

Climate-Friendly Travel Writer, Mark Bibby Jackson chats with Ivaylo Lefterov, Development Director of Svart Norway, a hotel concept that is set to revolutionise the global sustainable hotel industry. Quite simply…

Radisson Hotel Group: Responsible Business

Radisson Hotel Group: Responsible Business

Inge Huijbrechts, Global Senior Vice President Sustainability, Security and Corporate Communications for Radisson Hotel Group discusses how the hotel chain is developing the Responsible Business, and Safety and Security programmes…

Interested in Sustainable Tourism?

As destinations around the world complain about the negative effects of overtourism as well as the industry’s contribution to climate change and global heating, increasingly the question is being asked whether the nature of tourism needs to change. At the forefront of this is sustainable tourism.

What is Sustainable Tourism?

The World Tourism Organisation, now the UNWTO, provided a sustainable tourism definition that stated that it needs the participation of all stakeholders, and is a continuous process that needs a constant monitoring of impact, including corrective measures where applicable.

Sustainable Tourism Examples

It should also involve tourist satisfaction and increased awareness of related issues. In many respects Costa Rica has been at the vanguard of the movement. Allied to ecotourism this has been central to the country’s tourism drive. Tourism in Cosa Rica has thrived due to its preservation of the environment and sustainable management of tourism. Other sustainable intiatives include campaings to stop the use of single use plastics.

Sustainable Travel and Tourism

The term has come in for some criticism as being a bit confusing, but fundamentally in essence the effect of the tourism initiative should benefit the local community as well as future generations, as should all sustainability initiatives. Other similar terms include responsible travel, community-based tourism and regenerative tourism.

#SustainableSunday

You can follow our #SustainableSunday series for more about keeping your travel sustainable. You can also read more about Travel Begins at 40’s stance in our view of Travel and Tourism: a Clean and Green Future.