Sustainable Consumption and Production & Tourism

Policy making for SCP is informed by global bodies and initiatives, such as UNEP, the CSD and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Tourism. National Councils for Sustainable Development deal with SCP planning at country level. SCP is often most effectively developed at a regional level. All levels of policy need to be harmonized to achieve SCP.

SCP is best achieved through partnerships and networking, as SCP is a multi-stakeholder, multi-sector process involving different levels of government with the potential to cover local to global territories.

Education and research bodies have helped to develop approaches to SCP, such as integrated product performance development and product life-cycle analysis.  They need to widen the approach, reexamining overall production and consumption patterns in the context of current societal challenges.

Destinations can develop SCP processes by linking tourism to other sectoral developments in agriculture, energy, industry and transport.  They should also pay attention to National Sustainable Develop Plans, and promote tourism as a catalyst for overall regional SCP.

SME and Micro enterprises can advance SCP by reviewing the sustainability of their products and services, implementing management systems for sustainability and analyzing each component part of their products and service supply chain.

Travellers need to examine the social and environmental impacts of their purchasing behavior, and then make ethical consumption choices that encourage producers to move towards more sustainable production processes.

Resources include publications and tools who can help you in making tourism more sustainable. You can filter them for your topic of interest, keywords, landscape type, country - or target group. You can disseminate your sustainable tourism publications or tools and ask for editing rights if they should already be listed.

Good Practices present tourism businesses, tour operators, destinations and initiatives who have been finalist or winner of an award or prize for sustainable tourism. You can search in the "Atlas of Excellence" for your topic of interest, keywords, landscape type, country, a.o. If you have been finalist or winner of an award you can ask for being presented on the "Atlas of Excellence" and ask for editing rights if you should already be listed.

The global sustainable tourism Market Place presents accommodation providers and restaurants, attractions and activities, travel packages, destinations, tour operators and intermediaries who have been certified by a sustainable tourism certification programme. You can filter them on the DestiNet Atlas for their certificate/s, keywords, topics, landscape types, country, a.o. The Market Solutions lead you to more than 100 certification programmes and other services helping you in making your tourism products and services more sustainable. You can place your product or service on the global sustainable tourism Market Place and ask for editing rights should your service already be listed.

The Observatory section leads to organisations, initiatives and tools for observing, monitoring and reporting the sustainable development of your business or destination.

Under each Topic you can join or start an own user group for exchange and networking e.g. with the members of your organisation, your network or project group. For further information please contact the topic folder administration

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