Sustainability, Outdoor, Tourism, and Adventures

 This entire blog is about sustainability, mitigation of climate change, and what can we do to promote our territories and to prevent as much as it is our capacity that extreme events sweep away what we so dearly created.  So this morning my first thought was to my fellow European citizens in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany.  It is more than because of my small, marginal, contribution to the debate about sustainability. I lived and worked in Belgium, and I worked on cruises on the River Rhine. Beautiful memories of breathtaking landscapes and wonderful cities... some of them  are at the heart of what made our common European identity with their art, history, development. And definitely they mean a lot to me, personally.  So I felt compelled to drop just to lines, to stand in solidarity and mourning.  #Belgium #Luxembourg #Germany

  After having discussed the role of international organizations, let’ s see what private companies and individuals can do to make tourism a more sustainable experience ;-)   Private companies and individuals are called upon to play a leading role, in the end the tourism industry is largely in their hands. Approximately 70% of companies operating in the tourism sector have taken measures to embed sustainability standards and 41% are interested in including sustainability goals in their plan. This materializes in a number of measures that include resource efficiency, pollution reduction, staff training, cost reduction of operations, improvement of service delivery, and optimization of the way to do business. As for the various service sectors to which sustainability criteria must be applied, all sectors are involved: overnight stays, transport, and all services provided by operators and hosting communities. With regard to housing, which mainly affects carbon dioxin emissions, th

  An important page in the history of sustainable tourism was written in 2017. At the time, eco-tourism reached a turnover of about 100 million dollars, and was the fastest growing subsector in the tourism industry. To further promote this desirable way to practice tourism the United Nations 2017 designated 2017 the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. Therefore, 15 years after the designation of the International Year of Sustainable Tourism, a new step was taken to consolidate this form of tourism, fully acknowledging its pivotal role. Sustainability is the key not only in the tourism sector, but in general in the socio-economic development of the communities and agents involved. In this context, the WTO aims to create an overall statistical framework to measure the sustainability of tourism through a dedicated initiative. The five pillars of 2017 are Economic Sustainability, Social Inclusion, Climate and Resources, Cultural Values, and Tourism as an instr