SDG 12.B: Develop and Implement Tools to Monitor Sustainable Tourism

“The Poverty Footprint is part of a collaborative initiative between the United Nations Global Compact (UN Global Compact) and Oxfam International (Oxfam) to help companies – working in collaboration with a civil society organization (CSO) partner – to understand the impacts of their operations and...

“People have been travelling for centuries. Travel with tourism as a primary motive has only developed into one of the most important economic sectors worldwide over the past few decades. This development has not been without negative impacts. Tourism has major environmental impacts (such as...

“SoPHIA (Social Platform for Holistic Heritage Impact Assessment) aims at developing a holistic impact assessment model for evaluating cultural heritage interventions. The draft impact assessment model (draft SoPHIA model) has been applied and tested with the help of 12 case studies in the period...

“Tourism has many characteristics that make it especially valuable as an agent for development. As a cross cutting sector, it stimulates productive capacities from trade and the provision of jobs linked to the tourism value chain. In particular, it thrives on assets, such as the natural environment...

“Following the 2002 Johannesburg Summit which identified the need to explore the relationships between cultural diversity, inter-cultural dialogue and sustainable development, the central aim of this report is to assist policy makers and practitioners working in the field of tourism and culture by...

“Tourism can play a huge part in achieving the SDGs and UNWTO is committed to provide the global tourism community with a space to come together and realize the 2030 Agenda.

The Tourism for SDGs (T4SDG) is a co-creation platform for all, to make tourism matter on the journey to 2030.

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“The One Planet Vision for a Responsible Recovery of the Tourism Sector builds on the UNWTO Global Guidelines to Restart Tourism released by the Global Tourism Crisis Committee on 28 May 2020 with the objective to support tourism to emerge stronger and more sustainable from the COVID-19 crisis.

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“Browse the Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Register of good safeguarding practices The Committee meets annually to evaluate nominations proposed by States Parties to the 2003 Convention and decide whether or not to inscribe those cultural practices and expressions of intangible...

“This report seeks to provide an overview of the global efforts of the tourism sector and assess the current situation regarding Greenhouse Gas emissions  measurement  in  tourism.  It provides  an  overview  of  methodologies establishing the approaches and frameworks guiding measurement and the...