2020-02-26T10:35:42Z tag:root.destinet.eu,2020-02-26:/demo-design/News/2020/2 http://root.destinet.eu/demo-design/misc_/EnviroWindows/Site.gif ECOTRANS Tourism2030 tag:root.destinet.eu,2020-03-01:/demo-design/News/2020/2/sustainable-destination-awards-tourism2030-at-itb2020 2020-03-01T13:14:22Z Herbert Hamele Herbert Hamele

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tourism2030 News Buletin, 26th February 2020</span></span></em></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><img style="width: 800px; height: 399px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" src="/images/itb-event-banner.png" width="800" height="399" /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Once again, ITB Berlin is hosting the world's leading award series for destination sustainability efforts. This event is dedicated to recognise innovation and good practices in tourism management by islands, towns, regions and whole countries.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A Jury representing 12 international organisations will unveil the winners in the award categories Nature; Communities &amp; Culture; Best of Africa, Best of the Americas, Best of Asia-Pacific and Best of Europe. The flagship award is the ITB Earth Award, recognizing global leadership in combating climate change and environmental degradation.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>SDGs 2030: <em>Travel Green Planet 2030</em> collaboration initiative</strong> </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Prior to the ceremony, ECOTRANS and high-level representatives from UN-CBD, UNESCO, GSTC, WWF, SUNx will present the urgency to boost sustainable tourism as a driver for advancing the Sustainable Development Goals until 2030. They will announce their collaboration under the &ldquo;Travel Green Planet 2030&rdquo; initiative with the flagship aim to mainstream credibly certified tourism in all destinations with protected areas and cultural heritage sites, using the commonly shared <strong><a href="/market-place/green-travel-maps">Green Travel Maps </a></strong>on the Tourism2030 platform for knowledge networking and annual reporting. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Raising demand for the better choice</span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The multiple use of the Green Travel Maps - fed by and in agreement with the certification programmes as partners - shall finally raise both the interest in certification and the necessary visibility and market access of sustainable tourism as the better choice for tour operators, travel agencies, boking sysems and travellers in the next decade. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Progress will be reported annually at ITB! <br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><img style="width: 300px; height: 294px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; float: left;" src="/images/tgplanet-skaliert.png" width="300" height="294" /></span></p> <p><a href="/market-place/green-travel-maps"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><img style="width: 335px; height: 300px; margin: 0px 0px; vertical-align: undefined;" title="Search the global Green Travel Maps" src="/images/greentravelmaps.png" width="335" height="300" /></span></a></p>