Tourism2030 - March2020-03-27T13:41:34Ztag:root.destinet.eu,2020-03-27:/demo-design/News/2020/3http://root.destinet.eu/demo-design/misc_/EnviroWindows/Site.gifECOTRANSTourism2030Join Tourism2030 online 4th March 16:00 CET!tag:root.destinet.eu,2020-03-02:/demo-design/News/2020/3/join-tourism2030-online-4th-march-16-00-cet2020-03-02T09:18:25ZHerbert HameleHerbert Hamele<p><span style="color: #000000;"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Tourism2030 News Buletin, 01 March 2020</span></span></em></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ITB 2020 is cancelled</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> - But lets learn to keep things working - even in a crisis! </span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Instead of meeting in Berlin, take the time to log on to our <strong>Tourism2030</strong> Virtual Meeting Presentation & Discussion! </span></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">WED, 4th March 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 CET</span></strong></p>
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<p> </p>Climate crisis: urgent action required! tag:root.destinet.eu,2020-03-05:/demo-design/News/2020/3/climate-crisis-urgent-action-requred2020-03-05T13:09:25ZHerbert HameleHerbert Hamele<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The entire global Travel & Tourism sector to act NOW</strong></span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Last Friday in Qawra, Malta, Hon. Julia Farrugia Portelli addressed members of the <a href="https://thesunprogram.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27bc9a00739c59b20e827e918&id=4e4eae6fd4&e=bb13eec395">SUN<sup>x</sup> Malta</a> Climate Friendly Travel Think Tank on the Government of Malta’s commitment to establishing itself as a centre for Climate Friendly Travel.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> The key takeaway from the meeting was that the eXistential Climate Crisis requires even more urgent action by the entire global Travel & Tourism sector than has been generally recognized to date.</span><br /> <img style="width: 716px; height: 181px; margin: 0px 0px; vertical-align: undefined;" src="/images/sunx-malta-thin-tank-participants.jpg" width="716" height="181" /><br /></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Seven key calls to action</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The key calls to action from the Think Tank were:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Climate Crisis is eXistential. </strong>All stakeholders including Transport, Hospitality, Travel Services, and Infrastructure Providers must urgently start the transformation in 2020 to get onto the Paris 1.5<sup>o</sup> trajectory within the next 7- 10 years. Governments, Companies, communities and consumers, must all engage and take action NOW.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>“Climate Friendly Travel”. </strong>Under the banner of Climate Friendly Travel, the industry must adopt this as an imperative and the new norm.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Fully transforming all modes of transport</strong> was seen as pivotal. SUN<sup>x</sup> Malta’s call for a Moon-shot approach for aviation to further accelerate technological research and deployment was strongly supported, which must include the immediate distribution and rapid scaling up of currently available solutions to substantially reduce aviation fossil fuel reliance.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Climate Financing</strong>. Citing the Green New Deal as an example, the Travel & Tourism sector must engage more actively with emerging Green Finance programs to be able to secure adequate funds for transformation. High quality offsetting of carbon impacts were seen as short-term transition instruments but totally inadequate as a long-term solution. In this context it was broadly believed that aviation action to date was falling behind the rapidly intensifying transformation need.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Emerging innovations and technologies.</strong> Building refurbishment, cruise shipping, carbon reduction, waste to fuel transformation, developing consumer behaviour and digital opportunities.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The SUN<sup>x</sup> Malta </strong><em><strong>Climate Friendly Travel</strong></em><strong> Registry of Ambitions </strong>was reviewed and endorsed, as was the initiative with WISeKey to develop an innovative consumer facing secure platform.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Education of the Next Generation </strong>was underscored as a high priority with an emphasis on an accredited Graduate Diploma, from the Gozo Institute of Tourism Studies Campus. The SUN<sup>x</sup> Malta 100,000 STRONG Climate Friendly Travel Champions and as well as its school’s program is a very positive step forward to support company and community transformation. Additionally, improving the research base was underscored on both decarbonization and sector resilience.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>MORE: See the full press release </em><a href="https://www.thesunprogram.com/articles/championing-climate-friendly-travel" target="_new"><strong><em>here</em></strong></a></span></p>World's top 7 sustainable destination awards unveiledtag:root.destinet.eu,2020-03-11:/demo-design/News/2020/3/world-s-top-7-sustainable-destination-awards-unveiled2020-03-11T14:58:15ZHerbert HameleHerbert Hamele<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt;">Tuesday, March 10, 2020</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>50 good practice stories and seven Best of" winners across the world</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Originally scheduled at (cancelled) ITB Berlin's main stage, the World's Top 7 Sustainable Destination Awards were unveiled online on the 4th of March. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">50 good practice stories connected to sustainable tourism were submitted by the top 100 sustainable destinations. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The good practice stories are available <a href="https://greendestinations.org/2020-sustainable-destination-awards.">HERE</a></span> .<br /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><img style="width: 400px; height: 333px; margin: 0px 0px; vertical-align: undefined; " src="/images/earth-award-winner-2020.png" width="400" height="333" /></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The seven Award winners have been selected on the basis of their overall sustainability by a Jury representing 12 international organisations. The Winners have been announced as follows:</span><br /></p>
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<li style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ITB Earth Award: QualityCoast Delta, Netherlands</span><br /></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Best of Communities & Culture award: Douglas Shire, Australia</span><br /></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Best of Nature award: Azores, Portugal</span><br /></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Best of Africa award: #Khoadi //Hoas Conservancy, Namibia</span><br /></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Best of Asia-Pacific award: North-East Yilan Coast, Taiwan</span><br /></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Best of the Americas award: Vail, Colorado (USA)</span></li>
<li style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Best of Europe award: Slovenia</span><br /></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Award Ceremony to celebrate the Winners was postponed to Green Destinations' annual conference, this year it will be held in Bodrum (Turkey) 6-8 October. More information and (pre)registration <a href="https://greendestinations.org/ggdd-2020">HERE </a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Finally recognised: the key role of destinations</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The World's Top 7 Sustainable Destinations lead the way towards quality, attractiveness and sustainability in tourism. These destinations provide best practice experience for destination managers to involve their local communities in tourism and to avoid the problems of overtourism as we have sadly seen in many iconic places. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The key role of destinations has been finally recognised. Countries, local governments and protected areas have everything on the line to ensure tourism sustainability, but they were hardly visible in the larger tourism award schemes until Sustainable Destination Awards came along. With ITB Berlin hosting the annual Sustainable Destination Awards ceremony, destinations have a wider platform for promoting and sharing their sustainability efforts.</span><br /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For further information contact the Green Destinations Events Team events@greendestinations.org | <a href="http://www.greendestinations.org/2020-top-100-awards-itb-berlin/">http://www.greendestinations.org/2020-top-100-awards-itb-berlin/</a></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Valere Tjolle</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>UN: calling for global ceasefire tag:root.destinet.eu,2020-03-24:/demo-design/News/2020/3/un-calling-for-global-ceasefire2020-03-24T08:04:33ZHerbert HameleHerbert Hamele<div class="category">by António Guterres</div>
<h1 class="text-center">"The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war"</h1>
<p>"Our world faces a common enemy: COVID-19. </p>
<p>The virus does not care about ethnicity or nationality, faction or faith. It attacks all, relentlessly.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, armed conflict rages on around the world. </p>
<p>The most vulnerable — women and children, people with disabilities, the marginalized and the displaced — pay the highest price.</p>
<p>They are also at the highest risk of suffering devastating losses from COVID-19.</p>
<p>Let’s not forget that in war-ravaged countries, health systems have collapsed.</p>
<p>Health professionals, already few in number, have often been targeted. </p>
<p>Refugees and others displaced by violent conflict are doubly vulnerable.</p>
<p>The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war.</p>
<blockquote>End the sickness of war and fight the disease that is ravaging our world.</blockquote>
<p>That is why today, I am calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world. (...)"</p>
<p><strong>WATCH THE VIDEO: <a href="https://twitter.com/antonioguterres/status/1242155073981087744">https://twitter.com/antonioguterres/status/1242155073981087744</a></strong></p>
<p> </p>ECOTRANS proposes a Covid-19 Emergency Plantag:root.destinet.eu,2020-03-28:/demo-design/News/2020/3/covid-19-ecotrans-calls-for-a-emergency-sustainable-tourism-task-force2020-03-28T16:43:26ZHerbert HameleHerbert Hamele<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">27th March 2020</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">An Emergency Plan to Develop Economic, Environmental and Cultural Resilience through the Vector of Sustainable Tourism in the Post Covid-19 Global Economic Restructuring Phase</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt;">by Gordon Sillence and Herbert Hamele (ECOTRANS)</span></em></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Covid -19 and ITB Berlin 2020 Follow up</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The devastation to the global economy caused by the coronavirus has enormous implications for how we now pursue the Agenda 2030 SDGs. Travel and Tourism sectors have been particularly adversely affected and will need to be rebuilt, keeping in mind the need for long term as well as short term viability. Even though we are still in the emergency reaction phase, we are calling for all Tourism 2030 collaborators who planned to work together at ITB Berin 2020 to join in a joint follow up action to address how to design urgent, priority and fundamental policies and implementation programmes for using sustainable travel and tourism as the key vector for global sustainable development that brings a <strong> green, circular and peace-based economy</strong> into reality at this time of unprecedented challenge and opportunity.</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>An Emergency Sustainable Tourism Task Force</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The UN has already called for the recovery phase of our global economy to be both inclusive and sustainable. This is a call for the immediate establishment of a global sustainable travel and tourism policy taskforce based on the Tourism 2030 Agenda 2030 clustering initiative launched at ITB 2020 (online). The aim of the taskforce will be to show the world a viable sustainable tourism development approach that will drive overall sustainable development and <strong>build local to global resilience</strong> into the lives of both nation states and ordinary citizens alike.</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Using The SDGs and the Tourism 2030 Knowledge Base in the post-Covid -19 recovery planning process</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The approach of the task force will be to use the Agenda 2030 SDG framework to develop synergy between SDG 3 (Health and Well-being) and SDGs 13, 14 and 15 (Climate Change, Life below Water, Life on Land) by using SDG 12 ( Sustainable Consumption and Production) to generate SDG 8 (Fair Employment & Economic Growth) with the approach of SDG 17 (Partnership). The Tourism2030 Sustainable & Responsible Tourism Platform built in the EU’s Erasmus TRIANGLE project can immediately fully support this process by hosting a public access set of <strong>online knowledge, guidance and tools</strong> to ensure that all protected area and tourism administrations, industry enterprises and civil society NGOs can both understand and then implement responsible and sustainable tourism policies and actions.</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Using Tourism to Build the Agenda 2030 Global Green, Peace-based Circular Economy Country by Country </strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In this process the taskforce will produce a global model for using tourism to develop overall <strong>sustainable consumption and production supply chains</strong> on a territorial basis using the Tourism 2030 green mapping tools in line with UNEP/UNWTO sustainable value chain approach and ISO/GSTC sustainable tourism certification standards. The global recovery approach would model nationally based strategies that would enable each UN member state to immediately conceptualise a new internationally collaborative travel and tourism development strategy and then map out its existing supply chains to start building sustainable local, regional, national and international producer-customer links to recover their travel and tourism sectors.</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Rising to the Challenge – Using Post-Covid-19 Tourism Resilience Expertise</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The <strong>Travel Green Planet 2030 collaboration initiative</strong> has already called for a decade of action that would see <em>all tourism in protected areas is sustainably certified in the remaining 10 years of the 2030 Agenda</em>. The coronavirus health crises is now seen as one more tipping point in the potentially devastating cocktail of socio-economic and environmental challenges that have mounted up to confront humanity. An holistic approach that meets all the crises in an integrated manner is now more essential than ever. The Travel Green Planet initiative has always focused on the sustainability of local and regional approaches to preserving natural and cultural heritage, following national and international protocols in the framework of Agenda 2030 and its collaborative civil society – government - business stakeholder partnership implementation methodology<strong>. </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">With over 3 decades of high level experience in the governance of sustainability from local to global level, current expert participants in this initiative – reaching out to work with other sustainability specialists, experts, governments and business leaders – can bring stakeholders in both the industry and in the world‘s major tourism destinations together in the process of making<strong> common maps</strong> of where they are and where they need to go. The team can provide policy makers with the urgent knowledge and decision-making expertise they need to budget their spending effectively and deliver an economic framework that supports sustainable job creation, biodiversity preservation and climate change mitigation and adaptation.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Work of the Travel Green Planet Emergency Task Force</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Travel Green Planet task force would set up international response teams based on the extensive long-term high-level experience of its existing collaborators that can provide governments and key industry and destination stakeholders with the necessary support to establish their sustainable travel and tourism recuperation processes in a way that conforms to the <strong>principles of creating sustainable tourism jobs in a circular economy</strong> to use the substantial recovery funds that will be made available to effectively and fundamentally address the SDG issues of poverty, health, climate change and biodiversity loss.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We expect the emergency task force will need to develop an <strong>initial action that would last for 3 - 6 months</strong>. The task force can be established and become operational in month 1, and then focus on developing a common regeneration model for a global travel and tourism system that has national , regional and local building blocks. The model would be set up as an online toolkit for governments and tourism stakeholders to adopt to meet their individual circumstances. An international team would then be made available to support national governments to use the approach to implement sustainable job creation based on local and regional economic development within an international context. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Playing Your Role in Developing the Task Force</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are sending this message to ask if you can approach your institutions to finance this initiative. In particular, we are calling on all members of the TRIANGLE Knowledge Alliance and other ECOTRANS partners to see if you can <strong>find resources from your institutions and connections to support such a task force.</strong> Government and private funds will now be widely available to recompense loss of business and support livelihoods, but it will also be available for planning how to recover from such an economic and social shock to the global system. <strong>We look forward to hearing from you</strong> as part of our ongoing further collaboration, now so necessary if we are to choose right action and timing together in these extraordinary times to stay with the Agenda 2030 goal of a peaceful, prosperous and green planet with no-one left behind.</span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Collaboration is the key!</strong></span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">More on: </span><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/travel-green-planet-2030-initiative"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Travel Green Planet 2030 initiative</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Contact: <a href="mailto:herbert.hamele@ecotrans.de">herbert.hamele@ecotrans.de</a> or <a href="mailto:gordon.sillence@ecotrans.de">gordon.sillence@ecotrans.de</a> </span></p>