The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) will select up to 10 destinations to pilot test the second phase of its new Destination Criteria, and encourages applications before the January 31 deadline.
The U.S. Travel Association applauded President Barack Obama for signing into law a bill exempting U.S. airlines from the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme.
Join Dr. Susan Guyette, Sustainable Travel International's Cultural Tourism Advisor and author of new book Sustainable Cultural Tourism, on Thursday November 15th at 12:00pm EST for a seminar introducing a value-based planning and development method for cultural tourism.
Tourism is one of the most effective ways to preserve Africa’s national parks and protected areas while creating jobs and income for local communities. This was one of the main conclusions of the First Pan-African Conference on Sustainable Tourism in African National Parks, organized by UNWTO and the Government of Tanzania (Arusha, Tanzania, 15-18 October 2012).
The Kanas Lake Nature Reserve in the extreme north-west of China and the city of Chengdu, one of China’s most populous cities, are the locations of two new UNWTO Sustainable Tourism Observatories designed to monitor the environmental, social and economic impacts of tourism.
