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1. Insert photo Insert photo Insert photo REGIONAL STG&M SEMINAR Ada, Ghana, October 2013 Sustainable Tourism Governance and Management - State of Affairs October 2013

2. Study and Capacity Building Based on UNWTO/UNEP publication Crucial role of governments: • Much of the sustainability agenda about areas of public concern • Tourism sector fragmented – coordination needed for collective actions. • Government´s responsibilities on land use planning, environmental regulations, etc. • Governments already engaged in tourism through marketing, education, etc.

3. 12 Aims of Sustainable Tourism • Economic Viability • Local Prosperity • Employment Quality • Social Equity • Visitor Fulfillment • Local Control • Community Wellbeing • Cultural Richness • Physical Integrity • Biological Diversity • Resource Efficiency • Environmental Purity

4. Planned outputs STG&M assignment • Country reports on mechanisms for sustainable tourism governance and management at national and demo site level, based on expert field missions. • Publication, with a main text on mechanisms for sustainable tourism governance and management in coastal areas, and recommendations on strengthening governance and management processes in Coastal Areas in Africa. • one week seminars in three regional groups to disseminate findings and build capacities.

5. Timetable • Proposed methodology: November 2010 • Desk research (existing policies and regulations): December 2010 - February 2011 • Field research: February 2011 – July 2011 • Proposed outline content for publication: August 2011 • First draft of the publication: November 2011 • Final draft publication shared with countries for feedback: February 2012 • Capacity building seminars: based on recommendations MTE postponed from first semester 2012 to 2013

6. Structure Publication Introduction Global Perspective on Coastal Tourism Management Coastal Tourism Compared in Nine Countries Policies for Sustainable Tourism: development policies, tourism policies, environmental policies Governance Structures and Relationships: tourism, environment, decentralization Planning the Coastal Zone for Sustainable Tourism: ICZM, land use plans, tourism destination management plans Influencing Coastal Tourism Development: EIA, procedures, incentives

7. Structure Publication Influencing the Operation of Coastal Tourism Enterprises: regulation and inspection, voluntary certification, private sector response Managing Coastal Environments linked to Tourism: solid waste, coastal erosion and biodiversity conservation Supporting Community Livelihoods: local employment and supply chains, informal beach trading, community-based tourism, stakeholder engagement to deliver community benefit Conclusions and Recommendations for Better Governance and Management

8. Findings and recommendations MTE 98. The national reports (of the sustainable tourism governance and management study) seen by the MTE were excellent, comprehensive, and of high quality, and were judged accurate and useful by the FPs. They represent one of the most successful results of the Project so far. The intention was to deliver these reports and promote their findings at a number of workshops to be held in the region in early 2012. However, the MTE feels these workshops would be more effective, in terms of mainstreaming project results, if they were held later in 2013.

9. Findings and recommendations MTE 143. Ultimately, long-term impact and socio-political sustainability of results will only be achieved if project findings can be integrated into key tourism sector policy and regulatory instruments and initiatives. Specific ‘access points’ and opportunities for mainstreaming project results into decision-making bodies and processes still need to be identified, although the UNWTO Sustainable Tourism Governance and Management studies provide a preliminary analysis which can be built on. The key focal point for mainstreaming into the tourism sector needs to be the Ministry of Tourism

10. Findings and recommendations MTE 369. What motivates many people to change their attitudes and practices is financial gain or loss, consequently, having financial cost-benefit data for the BAPs/BATs being piloted at the demo sites together with an analysis of economic incentives in each target country that could promote BAPs/BATs, e.g. tax breaks on clean technology, could significant aid the mainstreaming of project results into national policies and plans and particularly their adoption by the private sector.

11. Findings and recommendations MTE 382. The Project Communication Mainstreaming Strategy and Plan could include a template for an action plan which FPs and DPCs could fill in to identify follow-up activities needed for mainstreaming, ideally followed up by an expert mission (UNWTO consultants) to one or a few countries to assist in the preparation of the action plan, which would form the basis of the work plan for the last 12 months of the Project and serve as an example for other countries.

12. New actions STG&M Phase II - An additional study on financial incentives for sustainable tourism to be undertaken through field missions to selected COAST countries and phone interviews with key-stakeholders from other COAST countries. Study to be integrated in/attached to Sustainable Tourism Governance publication. - Template to be developed for action plan with follow up activities needed for mainstreaming, and example to be elaborated for one COAST country. FPs and DPCs to fill in template with guidance/feedback UNWTO, and to present action plan at sustainable tourism governance workshops in 2013.

13. Objectives STG&M workshop - To create an enhanced understanding of national and local mechanisms that support sustainable tourism governance and management, including possibilities to apply the mechanisms at country/demo site level. - To share and assess action plans for sustainable tourism governance and management with a view to identify priority actions to be implemented in the remaining COAST project period as well as the period beyond. - To draw and exchange lessons learned from sustainable tourism approaches promoted by the COAST project for reducing pollution, contamination and environmental degradation and stimulating local economic development from coastal tourism in a Sub-Sahara context.

14. Outcome STG&M seminar - Participants have identified mechanisms for sustainable tourism governance and management that can be used or strengthened in their destination. - Participants have selected priority actions for strengthening sustainable tourism governance and identified potential funding opportunities (both from within the Government and if possible/feasible from external sources) and partner organisations to collaborate with to address the actions within and beyond the remaining COAST project period. - Participants are aware of the experiences gained in the COAST project and can identify possibilities for replication in their country.

15. Way forward • MTE considered the sustainable tourism governance study as one of the most successful activities of the COAST project, with excellent country reports on which we can further build to mainstream project results into national policies and strategies and into the activities of the private sector. Let’s use the STG&M study and action plans - Let’s give follow up to it!!!

16. Thank you! Marcel Leijzer Programme Coordinator Technical Cooperation & Services mleijzer@unwto.org Visit us at unwto.org