Equality in Tourism International released its 2025, Sun, Sand & Ceilings report. Drawing on publicly available information for 68 organisations, 28 tour operators, 16 hotels and hotel groups, 15 carriers, airlines and cruises, and nine professional associations, the charity calculated that women occupied 33 percent of board seats across global tourism, up from 23 percent [...]
Visit Tucson has joined as a member of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC). Located in southern Arizona, USA, Tucson is known for its distinctive desert landscapes and cultural diversity. Set within the Sonoran Desert, surrounded by five mountain ranges and bookended by Saguaro National Park, the city offers a combination of natural features [...]
The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) welcomes your feedback on the draft revisions of the GSTC Hotel Standard and GSTC Tour Operator Standard in this third round of public consultation, which is now open until July 3rd, 2025. The GSTC Standards (known previously as GSTC Criteria) serve as the global standards for sustainability in [...]
The Sustainable Tourism Academy is now available to support hospitality professionals in their journey toward more sustainable operations. Born through a strategic partnership between the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) and Agoda, the platform offers a practical and accessible pathway for hotels and accommodations professionals to learn and turn sustainability goals into action. Available free [...]
Control Union, a GSTC-accredited certification body, will transfer the management authority of GSTC Certification from its current accredited office in Zwolle, the Netherlands, to its newly accredited office in Singapore. This move reflects an operational shift designed to enhance service delivery globally, with expanded coverage now including China. Control Union has been providing testing, inspection, [...]
The GSTC Sustainable Tour Operator Course (TOC), in collaboration with Virgin Voyages (VV) for its partners, fulfilled a comprehensive and impactful run from January 2024 to December 2025. This online, complimentary course was provided to Virgin Voyages’ diverse portfolio of tour operators in an effort to create positive social and environmental benefits in the [...]
The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) is announcing the launch of a new training course specifically designed to support destinations in their journey toward sustainable tourism: the GSTC Destination Stewardship Course (DSC). The GSTC has developed the Destination Stewardship Course as a comprehensive, self-paced training course that provides tourism professionals working at the destination [...]
The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) has formed a Roundtable for Animal Welfare in Tourism (R4AWT), an initiative aimed at promoting responsible, ethical, and science-based approaches to animal welfare within the global tourism industry. R4AWT aims to provide a platform for collaboration, knowledge exchange, and the development of practical guidelines tailored to the tourism [...]
El Consejo Mundial de Turismo Sostenible (GSTC) ha publicado el Directorio de Hoteles Certificados por el GSTC, un completo recurso diseñado para ayudar a destinos, empresas y consumidores a identificar los alojamientos que han sido certificados como sostenibles por organismos de certificación acreditados por el GSTC.En un sector en el que el «greenwashing» sigue [...]
From June 3 to 6, 2025, the Asian Productivity Organization (APO), an intergovernmental organization dedicated to improving productivity in the Asia-Pacific region, held a regional workshop on Promoting Sustainable, Inclusive Tourism in Kathmandu, Nepal. The event was implemented in partnership with the National Productivity and Economic Development Centre (NPO) of Nepal and [...]
La Comisión Europea ha iniciado el desarrollo de una estrategia global de turismo sostenible de la UE, con el objetivo de garantizar que el turismo en Europa siga siendo competitivo, sostenible e integrador.Como parte de este proceso, se ha puesto en marcha una consulta para recabar aportaciones de las partes interesadas de todo el ecosistema [...]
Epicentro Lanzarote, celebrado los días 13 y 14 de febrero de 2025 en los ‘Jameos del Agua’, reunió a actores del sector turístico para promover prácticas sostenibles. Organizado por la Sociedad de Promoción Exterior de Lanzarote (SPEL – Turismo Lanzarote), miembro del GSTC, con la colaboración del GSTC y del Pacto Mundial de la [...]
On June 9, 2025, the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) proudly joins the global celebration of World Accreditation Day (WAD), an initiative by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC). This year’s theme, “Accreditation: Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)”, shines a spotlight on the essential role accreditation plays in [...]
On June 3rd, 2025, the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) successfully held a High-Level Workshop in Kota Kinabalu, the state capital of Sabah, Malaysia. The event was conducted with the support of the Sabah Tourism Board, underscoring the state's effort to advance sustainable tourism. The workshop opened with welcoming remarks [...]
The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), in collaboration with the digital travel platform Agoda, has launched the Sustainable Tourism Academy, a free digital training platform designed to equip current and aspiring hoteliers with practical sustainability tools and knowledge. The initiative aims to address the growing demand for more sustainable accommodation options from increasingly sustainability-conscious [...]
Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and Association of Singapore Attractions (ASA) jointly organised a sustainability industry event for the Singapore attractions sector on 3 April 2025. The event aimed to raise awareness of sustainability best practices and standards, with GSTC invited to share about the GSTC Attraction Standard. During the event, So Young, [...]
In her newly released first book, ‘Il Turismo che Non Paga’, journalist Cristina Nadotti takes readers deep into the contradictions of modern tourism. One of the key chapters, Il marchio è green, la realtà grigia ("The Label is Green, the Reality is Grey"), spotlights the role of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) and [...]
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El Consejo Global de Turismo Sostenible (GSTC, por sus siglas en inglés) participó en la 9º edición de la Sustainable & Social Tourism Summit, celebrada del 20 al 23 de mayo de 2025 en San José, Costa Rica. Este año, el encuentro tuvo como eje central el tema “El turismo desde la [...]
Dr. Ioannis Pappas, Director for the Mediterranean Region at the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), was one of the contributing authors of the newly published White Paper on Sustainable Tourism Governance in the Euro-MED Area: Tourism and Climate Adaptation. Developed within the framework of the Dialogue4Tourism Project under the Interreg Euro-MED Programme 2021–2027, the white [...]
