The Sustainable
Tourism Gateway

A number of regional and international conferences and meetings have generated some very interesting visions and scenarios - presented below - of the way in which sustainable tourism is and should be, developing.

The challenge lies in taking these declarations, charters and codes, and creating sustainable policies at the micro level, that cumulatively lead to sustainable development of the tourism sector.

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• Agenda 21 and Sustainable Tourism
• Climate Change and Tourism Responding to Global Challenges, Davos Declaration, October 2007
• Responsible Tourism in Destinations: The Cape Town Declaration, August 2002
• Quéebec Declaration on Ecotourism, May 2002
• The World Ecotourism Summit: Final Report, May 2002
• Archive: International Year of Ecotourism -2002
• WSSD - Johannesburg Plan of Implementation: Sustainable Tourism
• Commission on Sustainable Development Seventh Session (April 1999)
  - The Global Importance of Tourism
  - Workers and Trade Unions in the Web of Tourism
  - Sustainable Tourism: A Local Authority Perspective
  - Sustainable Tourism: An NGO Perspective

  Sustainable Tourism: The Berlin Declaration, March 1997

  Sustainable Tourism Certifications Database

  Global Partnership for Sustainable Tourism Criteria

  Charter for Sustainable Tourism, April 1995

  APEC/PATA Code for Sustainable Tourism

  Global Codes of Ethics for Tourism, 1999

  Foundation for Environmental Education's Green Key Standard