Tourism2030 - ORGANISATIONS - research sources re the topics

Heritage Europe - European Association of Historic Towns and Regions

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Network supporting the management of historic towns and cites including sustainable regeneration.

ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability

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An association of over 1220 local government Members who are committed to sustainable development.

NecsTour

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An open network of European regions, whose aim is to develop and strengthen a coherent framework for the coordination of regional development programmes and research on sustainable and competitive tourism.

Prisma

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PRISMA is an independent consultancy specialising in the areas of local and regional development, the labour market, public and social sector management, planning and research, as well as in the evaluation and management of development programmes and projects. As part of the ECO-DESTINET project Prisma and project partners have developed the European Ecotourism Labelling standard - EETLS, being the first standard recognised by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council GSTC in 2011.

The Tourism Society

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Membership body for professionals working in tourism, with newsletter and a strong programme of events, often covering destination management. UK based and focused but members worldwide.

Tourism Management Institute

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Membership body specifically aimed at Destination Managers. UK based and focussed but concepts and appproach relelvant elsewhere in Europe.

UNEP Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch,Division of Technology Industry and Economics

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Branch of UNEP handling tourism policy and practice in context of sustainable consumption and production, supporting studies on destination management.

UNWTO - Sustainable Development of Tourism

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Department of the UNWTO handling policy and prctice on tourism sustainability including issues related to destination management.

VisitEngland, Partnerships and Performance Directorate

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Directorate of Visit England handling destination management and also sustainability issues.

VisitScotland, Partnerships Directorate

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Directorate of Visit Scotland handling destination management and public-private partnerships at sub-national level.

VisitWales, Development Department

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Department responsible for destination management and sustainable tourism, producing Destination Management Wales website.

Eurogites

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European Federation of Farm and Village Tourism, linking networks in 28 countries and representing the small rural accommodation sector.

European Travel Commission

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Membership body for the 35 National Tourism Organisations of Europe, producing research and other guidance as well as marketing of Europe.

European Union of Tourist Officers

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Membership body for professionals in tourism in Europe, including many destinational managers.

Eurocities

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The network of major European cities, promoting good sustainable development and destination management in large urban areas.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

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WWF creates solutions that will solve our planet's BIG environmental challenges.

Word Business Council for Sustainable Development

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The WBCSD is a CEO-led, global coalition of some 200 companies advocating for progress on sustainable development. Its mission is to be a catalyst for innovation and and sustainable growth in a world where resources are increasingly limited.

Tour Operators Initiative

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The TOI and WWF tested in 2004, in Lastovo (Croatia), the opportunities for forging a partnership to support biodiversity conservation in areas of high-volume tourism and in 2006, they signed a Cooperation Agreement to achieve raise awareness of the visitors about the values of biodiversity and of tourism entrepreneurs about the relevance of biodiversity conservation to the tourism business.

Ramsar Convention

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Intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.

PriceWaterhouseCoopers

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PwC is one of the world’s largest providers of assurance, tax, and business consulting services. PWC was co-author of the TEEB Study and Reports and is very much engaged in the devolopment of assessment tools for integrating biodiversity into the companies management.

National Geographic’s Centre for Sustainable Destinations

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Created by the Research, Conservation, and Exploration Division of National Geographic Mission Programs, Centre for Sustainable Destinations (CSD) programs are dedicated to protecting the world’s distinctive places through wisely managed tourism and enlightened destination stewardship.

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world’s oldest and largest global environmental network, is strongly involved in business and biodiversity links, and especially with regards to tourism.

IUCN Red List

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The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is a scientifically based inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species. It evaluates the extinction risk of thousands of species and subspecies in all regions of the world.

Global Sustainable Tourism Council

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This council originates from the merge of Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria (GSTC) and the Sustainable Tourism Stewardship Council (STSC) in 2009. Launched at the World Conservation Congress in October 2008, The Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria (GSTC) are a set of 37 voluntary standards (including biodiversity conservation and interactions with wildlife criteria) representing the minimum that any tourism business should aspire to reach in order to protect and sustain the world’s natural and cultural resources, while ensuring tourism meets its potential as a tool for poverty alleviation.

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

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Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a network-based organization that has pioneered the development of the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting framework. GRI includes biodiversity criteria and is used by many tourism companies to report. Currently GRI is working on indicators for ecosystem services.

Global Nature Fund (GNF)

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GNF coordinates the International Living Lakes Network for the protection of lakes and wetlands and sustainable development of lake regions. GNF coordinates also the European Business and Biodiversity Campaign.

European Business and Biodiversity Campaign

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Under the auspices of the Global Nature Fund and with participation of the Bodensee-Stiftung and the other project partners, Triple E, Fundación Global Nature, IUCN, and dokeo Altop-Verlag. "This legislation is the European Business and Biodiversity Campaign and the high economic importance of biodiversity and the economy present the active protection and preservation of biodiversity invite".

Convention on Biological Diversity

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The CBD created a platform to foster dialogue between tourism practitioners and disseminate support for the implementation of the CBD Guidelines on Biodiversity and Tourism Development.

CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species)

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Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, established in 1973, which regulates international trade in threatened species and products derived from them.

Business and Biodiversity Initiative ‘Biodiversity in Good Company’

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The Initiative serves as a platform for mutual learning and dialogue for currently 35 small-, medium-, and large-scale companies from different sectors of industry, with headquarters mainly located in Brazil, Germany and Japan. The member companies have committed themselves to including the protection of biological diversity within their environmental management system by signing the Initiative’s Leadership Declaration.

Association Orée

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Founded in 1992, Orée is an association that brings together members from diverse areas to discuss and test specific integrated environment management solutions throughout France.

WTTC The World Travel & Tourism Council

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The World Travel & Tourism Council's Best Practice Gateway provides a global collection of sustainable tourism best practice case studies.

UNWTO

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The Sustainable Development department of the UNWTO promotes the sustainable development and management of tourism globally in Member states, regions and specific types of destinations involving both public and private sectors for the generation of social, economic and cultural benefits for host communities commensurate with global development interests, for ensuring the supply of quality tourism products and avoiding or reducing negative impacts upon the natural and socio-cultural environments.

UNEP - Tourism & Environment Programme

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The programme's mission is to mainstream sustainability into tourism development by demonstrating the economic, environmental, and socio-cultural benefits of sustainable tourism.

Travel Foundation

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The Travel Foundation is a UK travel industry charity, set up to respond to concerns over the sustainability of travel and tourism. Working in collaboration with UK government and leading travel companies, TF develops and promotes sustainable tourism within the UK and at mainstream destinations worldwide by providing essential knowledge, tools, guidelines and training.

Tour Operators Initiative

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Initiative set up to advance the sustainable development and management of tourism and to encourage tour operators to make a corporate commitment to sustainable development.The Initiative will address ways to minimise adverse impacts on, and to generate benefits for environment, culture and communities in tourism destinations through the design and operation of tours and of the conduct of tour operators’ business activities.

SNV

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Dutch Development Organisation with Value Chain Development as strategy for sustainable tourism development.

Rainforest Alliance

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This international conservation organization promotes ecologically and socially responsible best practices for tourism businesses and engages partnerships with incoming and outbound tour operators (providing match-making services).

International Centre for Responsible Tourisme (ICRT)

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ICRT works in originating markets and destinations around the world, to harness tourism to make "better places for people to live in and for people to visit." ICRT works with governments, tour operators and accommodation providers to realise the aspirations of the Responsible Tourism Movement in which it has played a major part since 1997.

ECEAT Netherlands

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ECEAT-Projects develops projects and strategies for the development of sustainability. If focuses on rural and protected areas, as well as mainstreaming sustainability in the mass tourism segments, for example through the Travelife initiative.

ANVR Algemene Nederlandse Vereniging van Reiseondernemingen

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The Dutch Travel Association ANVR obliges its members to have a sustainability coordinator trained within the Travelife Management System and report on sustainability performance.

ABTA The Travel Association

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The UK travel Association ABTA supports the UK industry Sustainable Aviation Strategy and is founding partner of the Travelife Sustainability System.

Voyages-sncf

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Partly through its 30 years investment in high speed train, France ranks second in Europe in terms of km travelled by train per year and per person. Voyages-sncf.com, French railways subsidiary acting as the travel agency (booking services), implemented several intiatives of carbon managment : development of hybrid taxis, carbon calculator and comparator, award "trophées du tourisme responsable". It endeavours to be more and more considered as a provider of soft mobility, in all forms.

Transport and Environment T&E

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Transport and the Environment is an EU-wide NGO providing independant expertise and campaigns for low carbon mobility in Europe, tackling all modes of transports.

South West England

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South West Tourism (SWT) initiated a process towards sustainable tourism development through publication of its regional strategy 'Towards 2015' in January 2005, which put sustainability at the heart of its tourism vision (South West Tourism 2005). To actually implement the strategy, SWT started to recruit expert staff, in partnership with tourism businesses, visitors, and decision makers. In the period 2005-2008, several programs were developed in this respect. Key actions included an awareness campaign for businesses, ‘Action of the Year’, which focused on one theme per year, such as ‘saving energy’. Within the ‘Action of the Year’ campaign, presentations to about 4,000 businesses were made. Furthermore, a green certification scheme already operating in Scotland and South East England was rolled out in South West England and over 3 years was joined by 500 businesses out of about 20,000 accommodation and attraction providers in the South West.

Ski resorts carbon footprints

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Sponsored by the Agency for Energy and the Environment (Ademe), a dozen of ski resorts undertook a carbon footprint analysis, using the "Bilan carbone" comprehensive methods. This raised the awareness of climate change issues within the sector.

Scandic hotels

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From heating system, insulation, through local mobility and procurement policy, scandic appears as the most committed hotel chain for low carbon management.

Routerank

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Routerank is a swiss start up offering an online integration of transport mode booking systems, offering a real time integration of transport modes, and a comparison of the carbon footprint of travel options. It has the potential to form the basis of future low carbon travel agencies.

Hotel Victoria Freibug

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Zero carbon accomodation, reached through solar panels, small wind turbines, wood pellet heating system, energy savings, promotion of public transport.

Fritidsresor

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Fritidsresor belongs to the Swedish group Fritidsresegruppen (Fritidsresor Group Nordic), which again is part of the world’s largest travel company, TUI Travel Plc, with 30 million customers per year. Fritidsresor started to offer train charter as an alternative to air charter flights in summer 2007, in cooperation with Swedish Railways. The idea was born out of discussions of how to create more climatically friendly tourism, and the train first packages offered by Fritidsresor went all the way from Sweden to Italy.

Deutsche Bahn

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The Deutschebahn web site developed the most sophisticated, multilingual booking system (see also DieBahn trip planner of smartphones), offering any train routes for any multi-stopover trips in Europe, which most railways do not offer. Therefore it is ironically used by travellers from other countries to plan trips... in their own countries!

Cheaptickets

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Cheaptickets is a Dutch online booking agent for air travel. Besides information on price, departure time, flight times and stopovers, Cheaptickets also provides information on emissions, expressed as ‘eco value’. ‘Eco value’ is a customer-friendly approach to a climate impact indicator. It is related to the European Union’s energy label for white appliances, which uses a colour scheme from green to red to indicate environmental performance, with green being the most energy-efficient choice, and thus the least environmentally harmful.

Centre for Sustainable Tourism and Transport CSTT

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CSTT was founded in 2003 and is responsible for research and development in the broad area of the sustainable development of tourism. CSTT has been involved in international projects like the MuSTT study (DG-ENTR), Trans national student mobility (DG Education), EuroVelo evaluation study (European Parliament), Slow Tourism (DG ENTR), SuSTRIP (Interreg IVA- 2 seas), Gestion de l’énergie Transport aérien et tourisme en Méditerranée (UNEP), Sustainable Destination Norway (Norwegian government), and Tourism and climate change report (UNWTO).

Carbon Care - Low Carbon Event

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Lille congress center developed the low carbon event and low carbon venue iniatives, allowing a client to buy a low carbon congress of event, involving all the supply chain.

Baie de Somme Zéro Carbone

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Starting from a group of motivated professionals, around an hotel owners, this initiative developed a complete project for a low carbon destination, as well as an annual event on tourism and carbon management.

Atmosfair

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Since its foundation, Atmosfair becam a reference player in the field of carbon offseting schemes. It also developed some scientific expertise in the field, and propose since 2011 a carbon labelling of airlines, as well as advices to reduce a trip carbon footpint, prio to a carbon offseting.

Alpine Pearls

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The UE cohesion policy (INTERREG program) helped initiating the Alpine pearls, the first newtwork of destination focusing on soft mobility to reach the destination, and within the destination. Alpine Peals was granted the WTTC tourism for tomorrow awards in 2011.

World Travel and Tourism Concil (WTTC)

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The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) is a forum for business leaders in the Travel & Tourism industry, campaigning for the sustainable development of travel and tourism.

VCOE - Mobilitaet mit Zukunft

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VCOE is an Austrian organisation doing research and campaigning for environmentally friendly, socially just and economically efficient mobility.

NHTV - Centre for Sustainable Tourism and Transport

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The NHTV Centre for Sustainable Tourism and Transport (CSTT) is an independent research and knowledge institute within NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences. It aims to contribute to the understanding of the environmental impacts of tourism and the tourism sector and, based on this knowledge, aims to support the industry with the transition to sustainable development.

European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC) - Institute for Regional Development and Location Management

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The European Academy of Bozen has launched a project called "ACCESS2MOUNTAIN - Sustainable Mobility and Tourism in Sensitive Areas of the Alps and the Carpathians", running from 05/2011 until 04/2014. The main objective is to improve sustainable accessibility and connection to, between, and in sensitive mountain regions.

Environment Agency Austria (Umweltbundesamt)

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The Umweltbundesamt is an Austrian expert organisation for all environmental themes and media. It is a specialist in monitoring and in the management and evaluation of environmental data, developing scenarios for the achievement of environmental policy objectives in Austria and in Europe.

CIVITAS - Cleaner and better transport in cities

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The CIVITAS Initiative ("City-Vitality-Sustainability", or "Cleaner and Better Transport in Cities") was launched in 2002 and is co-financed by the European Union. Its fundamental aim is to support cities to introduce ambitious transport measures and policies towards sustainable urban mobility.

CIPRA - Future in the Alps

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CIPRA is an autonomous non-governmental, non-profit umbrella organisation committed to the protection and sustainable development of the Alps. With its international executive office in Liechtenstein, its representatives in seven Alpine states and around one hundred member organisations and institutions CIPRA today represents an important alpine-wide network. The organisation established an extensive knowledge base on its website, containing numerous publications and cases of best practice.

Association for European Transport (AET)

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The Association for European Transport (AET) is a European organisation for transport professionals. AET promotes networking and the exchange of ideas, Information and opportunities amongst its members through conferences, special interest groups and the members’ website. AET is responsible for organising Europe’s leading annual transportation conference (the European Transport Conference - ETC). Proceedings of the ETCs held since 1996 are available to download from www.etcproceedings.org.

Alpmobil - electromobility in the Alps

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Alpmobil's aim is to offer new solutions for a modern and environmentally friendly mobility in the tourism and leisure traffic. Through a network of rental stations, guests and locals can experience scenic mountain passes in a new way and enjoy exciting excursions with sustainable transportation such as electric cars and electric bikes.

Alpine Pearls

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The "Alpine Pearls" serve as an Alpine umbrella brand for soft mobility in tourism. The Alpine Pearls Association is a network of 24 communities that offer carefree, yet conscious ways to enjoy holidays in environmentally friendly fashion.

Business and Social Responsability (BSR)

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BSR works with its global network of more than 250 member companies to develop sustainable business strategies and solutions through consulting, research, and cross-sector collaboration. With offices in Asia, Europe, and North America, BSR uses its expertise in the environment, human rights, economic development, and governance and accountability to guide global companies toward creating a just and sustainable world.