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New Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria

  • Ethan Gelber
  • 3 November 2008

The Partnership for Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria has announced the release of landmark universal sustainable tourism criteria, a new global framework intended as a guide to the practice of sustainable tourism.

The criteria focus on best practices in four fundamental areas:

  • maximizing social and economic benefits to local communities
  • reducing negative impacts on cultural heritage
  • reducing harm to local environments
  • planning for sustainability.

The Partnership for Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria is a new coalition of 27 leading tourism organisations from the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Consultations have involved sustainability experts and tourism industry representatives, as well as a review of more than 60 existing certification standards from around the world.

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