7th International Conference on Responsible Tourism in Destination

The 7th International Conference on Responsible Tourism in Destination takes place this year in Barcelona-Catalunya. The main event is on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th October, preceded by a full-day field trip to learn about the regeneration of L’Estartit on the Costa Brava on October 2nd.

For more information: www.rtd7.org

JP Le Moigne has joined The International Ecotourism Society.

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Sustainable Destination: Education and training.

In the challenge of getting sustainability in tourism destination there are different crossroads that give at this task a difficult character. Most of people that work helping at tourism to get more sustainable, know very well the three pillars of sustainability. But through the years working and traveling I‘ve realized that most of times when planners develop sustainability plans for destination and specifically community involvement, it is just taken into account the level of training, focusing in training to develop a specific task that allow people to work into tourism industry or others activities that help its functioning.

But, what about formal education?, In all my travels and specifically in my last visit to Brazil I could see that in small villages where tourism is developed most of time there is not secondary schools, and if students want to continue studying they have to leave their villages. Most of them don’t have enough money to do it or prefers working in the tourism industry. My second question is what will happen with those small villages if the world economy goes down, there is a natural catastrophe, a new disease appears, or a war starts, and tourists do not go anymore, or the number of arrivals goes down until 30 %?. Obviously we will have a terrible economy disaster, because most of people are trained in the different topics involving the tourism industry, but not in formal education because it was left beside.

This point is very tricky to resolve and should be bear into account when certifying a destination as sustainable. According to me this work has to be done by the public sector with the commitment and support of the private one.

World Water Day - 22 March, 2013

World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater. In 2013, in reflection of the International Year of Water Cooperation, World Water Day is also dedicated to the theme of cooperation around water.

Going further: http://www.unwater.org/water-cooperation-2013/home/en/

7th World Day for Responsible Tourism - CITR

International Coalition for Responsible Tourism was established in 2007 and now includes professional tourism experts with the aim to inform, educate, persuade, denounce and mobilize key players in the tourism (professionals, governments, national and international NGOs) interest in the concept of Responsible Tourism.

Each year, on June 2nd, CITR organizes the World Day for Responsible Tourism. This year the 7th meeting has the theme: ISLANDS, LABORATORIES OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM?

Going further: http://www.coalition-tourisme-responsable.org/

Paper - Establishment of Sustainable Tourism Indicators

The paper of my authorship called "Establishment of Socio-cultural, Economic and Environmental Indicators for Monitoring Impacts of Tourism Development in Caleta Cóndor Community, Los Lagos Region, Chile", has been published in Ecoclub - International Ecotourism Club.

Going further: http://ecoclub.com/articles/878-130117-le-moigne

The 6th IUCN World Parks Congress

The IUCN World Parks Congress, held on average every 10 years, is a landmark global forum on protected areas. As the world’s most influential gathering of people involved in protected area management, it sets the agenda for the following decade.

The next IUCN World Parks Congress will take place in 2014 in Sydney, Australia.

Going Further: http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/gpap_home/gpap_events/gpap_wpc/