Upcoming events
GSTC2017 – Towards More Sustainable Destinations: Management, Marketing, and Awareness
GSTC2017 will include international and domestic tourism stakeholders involved in the development and promotion of sustainable tourism; including public sector, hotels, tour operators, academia, development agencies, NGOs, consultants, and more.
GSTC Emerging Destinations Workshop | Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Dates: 2-3 November 2017
The GSTC Integrity Program offers Certification Bodies (CBs) and Owners of Standards to distinguish their activities and their standards in the marketplace. GSTC offers two services: GSTC Accredited mark for those CBs that exhibit excellence and neutrality in their certification processes; and GSTC Recognized status (not a mark) on written standards that include the GSTC Criteria within them. Both help standard owners and Certification Bodies build consumer and trade confidence, promote efficiency, and distinguish their services from others.
Conference on Sustainable Tourism in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Dates: 22-24 November 2017 (Conference), 25-26 November 2017 (Field visits)
In the framework of the 2017 UN International Year for Sustainable Tourism for Development this conference wishes to provide a platform for tourism professionals, academics and practitioners from other SIDS and the region to discuss an integrated practical approach to sustainable tourism in SIDS. For this event, the Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Foundation (SSTF), and the University of Seychelles (Department of Tourism and Cultural Heritage) partnered up with the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas’ Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group (TAPAS group), the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) and the Paris Tourism Sorbonne Institute of Research and Higher Education in Tourism (IREST), to organize a regional conference on sustainable tourism in SIDS, which will combine academic tourism research with practical best practice examples. The conference aims at connecting the various stakeholders working and researching the environmental and socio-cultural development of the tourism industry, for constructive discussions and networking. The specificity of this event would be to bring together experts working in the field of protected area management and specialists in cultural site preservation, to create synergistic knowledge and fruitful exchanges.