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The Global Partnership for Sustainable Tourism Uniting all stakeholders to transform tourism worldwide. www.unep.fr/tourism/partnership. Four main activities. Sustainable Tourism Development. Membership services*. *from 2011 onwards. Key Success Factor 1. The successful history:.
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The Global Partnership for SustainableTourism Uniting all stakeholders to transformtourismworldwide www.unep.fr/tourism/partnership
Four main activities SustainableTourismDevelopment
Membership services* *from 2011 onwards
Key Success Factor 1 The successful history: The Partnership will build upon the three-year success story of the International Task Force on Sustainable Tourism Development:
Membership Benefits for members • Identify innovative and high-impact projects, policies, and best practice. • Implement projects with the support of the Partnership team or/and its members. • Join a results-oriented dynamic network of networks, spanning the public and private sector. • Benefit from adequate information systems, conferences, workshops, publications and promotion of your sustainable tourism activities worldwide. • Interact with policy makers working on a sustainable tourism development.
Ongoingprojectexamples Consumer Campaign • Objective: to raise tourists’ awareness to contribute to sustainable development by making responsible holiday choices. • Green Passport travel guides with “green” tips have been produced in Brazil, Ecuador, Costa Rica, in South Africa for the FIFA World Cup 2010 and soon in Israel. • Campaigns can include additional actions, e.g. capacity building , infrastructure energy efficiency development, policy actions; www.unep.org/greenpassport
Ongoingprojectexamples Hotel Energy Solutions Project • Objective: expand the uptake of Energy Efficiency (EE) and Renewable Energy (RE) technologies in the European accommodation sector. • UNEP is coordinating the development of a toolkit that enables Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Hotels to assess their current energy use and carbon footprint against similar hotels and provide support in ranking practical and cost-effective EE and RE investment options. (carbon calculator, an energy benchmarking tool, decision support sequence which will provide assistance in evaluating carbon emissions and mitigation techniques through EE and RE investment options). www.hotelenergysolutions.net
Ongoingprojectexamples Sustainable Investment and Finance in Tourism (SIFT) network • SIFT is a knowledge and investment network meant to mainstream sustainability into tourism development investments and financing. • The main outcome of this network will be the establishment of a common and voluntary standard to encourage greater sustainability in tourism investments by public, private and multilateral investors.
For Questions on membership commitments/ Pour toute question sur les engagements en tant que membre : Charles Arden-Clarke - Head, Good and Services Unit, SCP Branch charles.arden-clarke@unep.org General questions/ Questions générales : Andrea Bacher - andrea.bacher@unep.org United Nations Environment Programme Global Partnership for SustainableTourismSecretariat15, rue de Milan • F-75441 • Paris Cedex 09 • FranceTel: +33-1-44-37-14-50 • Fax: +33-1-44-37-14-74 tourism@unep.org www.unep.fr/tourism/partnership Thankyou/ MERCI!