Links
Sustainable Tourism Web Resources
There is a HUGE amount of information on the web on sustainable development and sustainable tourism. The following is by no means exhaustive, but includes some of the best resources, many of which contain downloadable reports and factsheets. Browse at your own pace:
- BEST – Business Enterprises for Sustainable Travel: http://www.sustainabletravel.org is a good source of case study material on sustainable tourism projects abroad
- Big Volcano: http://www.bigvolcano.com.au/ercentre/ercpage.htm – Australian site on ecotourism activity and links to resources and sites of best practice
- Code of Ethics for Tourism on WTO website: http://www.world-tourism.org/code_ethics/eng.html
- Conservation International: good for ecotourism programmes and destinations http://www.ecotour.org/
- Natural England: http://www.countryside.gov.uk/
- DestiNet – sustainable tourism information portal: http://destinet.ewindows.eu.org/
- Ecological footprinting – example of Scotland at www.scotlands-footprint.com
- European Charter for Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas: http://www.europarc.org/european-charter.org/brochure.pdf plus implications for Scotland: http://www.snh.org.uk/pdfs/strategy/natparks/Eurosustourism.pdf
- Fair Trade in Tourism in South Africa: http://www.fairtourismsa.org.za/index.html
- Green Globe 21 – worldwide certification and benchmarking for sustainable tourism: http://www.greenglobe21.com/
- Green Party manifesto on tourism: http://policy.greenparty.org.uk/mfss/tourism.html
- Green Tourism Business Scheme: http://www.green-business.co.uk/ - accreditation body
- Information on the 2002 Earth Summit: www.johannesburgsummit.org and see particularly http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/html/sustainable_dev/p2_partners_other_areas/1908_promote_tourism.pdf for tourism information
- International Ecotourism Society: www.ecotourism.org
- IUCN (World Conservation Union): http://www.iucn.org
- Irresponsible Tourism Forum: http://www.irresponsibletourism.info/index.html
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority: www.lochlomond-trossachs.org.uk
- National Geographic Sustainable Tourism Resource Centre: www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/sustainable plus a link to examples of sustainable tourism strategies at http://destinet.ewindows.eu.org/aEconomic/1
- Pro-Poor Tourism: www.propoortourism.org.uk
- Responsibletravel.com is an online travel company with a difference. Information on campaigns and student resources available. A must see! www.responsibletravel.com
- Scottish Natural Heritage: http://www.snh.org.uk/
- Scottish Seabird Centre: www.seabird.org – for information on the Centre at North Berwick – a good example of a sustainable approach to visitor attraction management.
- The Travel Foundation: www.thetravelfoundation.org.uk very good website and contains many links. A must see!
- Tour Operator’s Initiative for Sustainable Tourism: http://www.toinitiative.org – includes 32 case studies of operators, performance indicators and industry responses
- Tourism and Environment Forum: www.greentourism.org.uk extensive web site on sustainable tourism in Scotland
- Tourism Concern: www.tourismconcern.org.uk
- Tourism Futures Institute: http://www.tourism-futures.org
- Tourism for Tomorrow Awards: www.tourismfortomorrow.com
- Tourism Rights: www.tourismrights.org for information on indigenous tourism and rights of communities
- Travel Mole: www.travelmole.com for recent industry announcements on marketing initiatives or developments in travel and tourism from an industry perspective.
- UK Government Sustainable Development website: http://www.defra.gov.uk/sustainable/government/
- United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development: www.un.org/esa/sustdev/index.html
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - Tourism website: http://www.unep.fr/scp/tourism – an excellent resource with background material on tourism impacts and the international action and policy framework. A must see!
- UNEP Sustainable Production and Consumption Branch website: http://www.uneptie.org/scp/ includes two useful case studies on tourism in Neapal and tourism in mountains
- World Wildlife Fund: http://www.wwf.org.uk/index.cfm
- Worldwatch Institute: www.worldwatch.org fantastic resources on environmental issues and downloadable pdfs on tourism including ‘Redirecting International Tourism’ (2001)
- WTO: http://www.world-tourism.org/frameset/frame_sustainable.html and http://www.world-tourism.org/sustainable/top/concepts.html to access links to range of statements and declarations of the World Tourism Organisation related to the sustainable tourism (such as Agenda 21 for Tourism)
- A valuable collection of academic, industry and pressure group links can be found on: www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/sustvl.html
There are a number of useful documentary videos on YouTube available at TourismFutures.org:
http://www.tourism-futures.org/content/category/27/118/331/
See in particular:
Keep tourist cities clean! The Venice example
Tourism puts Mexico’s reefs at risk
Sustainable wildlife tourism – gorilla tourism: a National Geographic video about the effort to prevent gorilla poaching by making gorillas more valuable alive than dead.
The Great Wall of China under threat from tourists and locals
…and list of ecotourism videos on YouTube:
http://www.tourism-futures.org/content/view/2000/186/