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Announcement: ITB Sustainable tourism destinations event (15 jan 2014)
| Contributor | Herbert Hamele |
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| Release date | 14/01/2014 |
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ITB Sustainable tourism destinations event to include green destination showcase
Apply now to present your destination's green attractions to a global audience
VISTAS sustainable tourism award event will include destinations from all over the world making one-minute sustainable destination pitches and beginning a Green Carpet ride to VISTAS 2015
ITB Berlin 2014 will stage the first of a series of global sustainable tourism events for destinations, aimed at assisting destinations around the world in their efforts towards sustainability.
The event will bring together destinations interested in profiting from the most important global initiatives and tools for improvement, benchmarking, training and marketing.
Partners include
- the Global Sustainable Tourism Review (GSTR)
- the DestiNet Portal and the DestiNet Innovation Group Toolkit and marketing package
- the award-winning destination networks including the EDEN Network Association aisbl (representing the European Destinations of Excellence Network), QualityCoast, and the Alpine Pearls destinations
- VISTAS: the TravelMole VISION on Sustainable Tourism Award Series
- And Ecotrans - the European network for sustainable tourism development
The second part of the event will showcase good practice in destinations through the QualityCoast Awards, in the first edition of the VISION Sustainable Tourism Award Series, VISTAS, launched by Vision on Sustainable Tourism by TravelMole, and DestiNet Innovation Group, as the successor of the VESTAS Event at ITB 2011.
But before this, destinations with a commitment to sustainability, and a wish to win a prestigious VISTAS 2015 award, will make a 1 minute presentation about how their visitors and residents are benefitting from sustainable tourism. Each presentations will be videoed and broadcast via all the supporting networks - including TravelMole's Vision on Sustainable Tourism, TravelMole TV, BookDifferent.com, GreenHopping.eu, TravelMotion.de, DestiNet.eu gaining an immediate mass audience throughout the travel, tourism and direct consumer world.
The destinations will then begin a "Green Carpet" ride to VISTAS 2015 benefitting along the way from advice and assistance from the VISTAS partners to maximise destination benefits from sustainable tourism. Participating destinations will not only get a massively beneficial green makeover and marketing assistance and exposure throughout their green carpet ride to VISTAS 2015, but also a possibility of winning the big prize - a prestigious VISTA award.
BEWARE Greenwashers - there will also be a 'Rusty Nail' award for the worst example of UNsustainable tourism.
Start your Green Carpet ride now. To apply to make a presentation at the VISTAS ITB event and to get more green tourism benefits for your destination: email valere@travelmole.com NOW
For more information visit http://www.VISTAwards.com
