Translations of the GSTC Standards

The GSTC Standards (known previously as GSTC Criteria) have been translated in several languages. The GSTC Hotel Standard and the GSTC Tour Operator Standard (formerly known as GSTC Industry Standard) and the GSTC Destination Standard have been translated by volunteers into several languages and are available to the public for ONLY education, training, and awareness purposes.

The recently launched GSTC MICE Standard and GSTC Attraction Standard are available in English. If you wish to volunteer to translate the GSTC MICE Standard or the GSTC Attraction Standard, kindly email us at standard@gstc.org

The translations should NOT be used for formal, technical purposes. Any formal use of the Standard must be based on the English originals and apply a certified translation if used in another language.

GSTC-D v2 refers to GSTC Standard for Destinations version 2 (2019)
GSTC-H refers to GSTC Hotel Standard with suggested performance indicators and comprehensive guidelines (2025)
GSTC-TO refers to GSTC Tour Operator Standard with suggested performance indicators and comprehensive guidelines (2025)
GSTC-M (venues) refers to MICE Venues with suggested performance indicators (2024)
GSTC-M (event organizers) refers to MICE Event Organizers with suggested performance indicators (2024)
GSTC-M (events) refers to MICE Events and Explositions with suggested performance indicators (2024)
GSTC-A refers to attractions, guiding businesses such as theme parks, museums, and national parks (2024)

While earlier versions of the Standard can be used for awareness and training, only the current versions can be applied to certification, awards, and measurement activities and programmes.

Old Standards:
GSTC-H&TOv1 refers to GSTC Standard for Hotels & Tour Operators version 1 (2008)
GSTC-H&TOv2 refers to GSTC Standard for Hotels & Tour Operators version 2 (2012)
GSTC-D refers to GSTC Standard for Destinations version 1 (2013)
GSTC-I refers to GSTC Standard for Tourism Industry – Hotels & Tour Operators version 3 (2016)
GSTC-I (w/H indicators) refers to GSTC Industry Standard with Hotels Performance Indicators (2016)
GSTC-I (w/TO indicators) refers to GSTC Industry Standard with Tour Operators Performance Indicators (2016)

  • Kriteret e KGTQ për Industrinë (w/Indikatorët e Performancës të Sugjeruar për Hotelet dhe Akomodimet) – GSTC-I (w/H indicators) 
  • Kriteret e KGTQ për Industrinë  (Indikatorët e Performancës të Sugjeruar për Operatorët Turistik)  – GSTC-I (w/TO indicatos)
  • GSTC Kriteret e Destinacionit Versioni 2.0 – GSTC-D
  • معايير المجلس العالمي للسياحة المستدامة لشركات القطاع السياحي (مع مؤشرات الأداء وأهداف التنمية المستدامة للفنادق وأماكن خدمات المبيت) – GSTC-I (w/H indicotors)
  • معايير المجلس العالمي للسياحة المستدامة لشركات القطاع السياحي (مع مؤشرات الأداء وأهداف التنمية المستدامة لمكاتب السياحة والسفر ومنظمي الرحلات والتجارب السياحية) – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators)
  • معايير المجلس العالمي للسياحة المستدامة للوجهات السياحية (مع مؤشرات الأداء وأهداف التنمية المستدامة) – GSTC-D
  • Indikatorima učinka i SDG-ovima – GSTC-M
  • GSTC လုးု္ငင္ ုးဆုိင္ရာ စံသ္္မရ့္္်က္  – GSTC-H
  • ္င္ျုမမုံုးစံ၃၊ ၂၀၁၆ ့ုးုႏရစ္၊ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၂၁ ရက္။ – GSTC-TO
  • ခရီးစဥ္ေဒသမ်ားအတြက္ ကမာၻလုံးဆိ ုင္ရာ ေရရွည္တည္တံ့သည့္ ခရီးသြားလုပ္ငန္းစံသတ္မွတ္ခ်က္မ်ား – – GSTC-D
  • Globální kritéria pro udržitelný cestovní ruch  – GSTC-H&TOv2
  • დარგობრივი კრიტერიუმები – GSTC-I
  • ტურ-ოპერატორებისათვის შეთავაზებული შესასრულებელი ინდიკატორები  – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators)
  • სასტუმროებისა და საცხოვრებელი ადგილებისათვის შესასრულებელი ინდიკატორები – GSTC-I (w/H indicators)
  • Κριτήρια του ΠΣΑΤ για τα Ξενοδοχεία – GSTC-I (w/H indicators)
  • Κριτήρια του ΠΣΑΤ για τους Τουριστικούς Πράκτορες – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators)
  • GSTC Κριτήρια για Προορισμούς  – GSTC-D v2
  • GSTC MICE Kritériumok – GSTC-M
  • Критериуми за индустријата на ГСОТ Сугерирани индикатори за успешност за хотели и сместувачки капацитети – GSTC-I (w/H indicators)
  • Критериуми за индустријата на ГСОТ Сугерирани индикатори за успешност за тур-оператори – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators)
  • Критериуми за Дестинации на Глобалниот совет за одржлив туризам – GSTC-D v2
  • Дэлхийн Тогтвортой Аялал Жуулчлалын Зөвлөл – Зорих газрын шалгуур үзүүлэлт – GSTC-D v2 

  •  معیارهاي شوراي جهانی گردشگري پایدار در بخش برگزارکنندگان گشت – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators) 
  •  معیارهاي شوراي جهانی گردشگري پایدار در بخش هتل – GSTC-I (w/H indicators)
  • معیارهاي شوراي جهانی گردشگري پایدار و نماگرهاي اجرایی پیشنهادي براي مقاصد – GSTC-D
  • فارسی – GSTC-1
  • Отраслевые критерии ГСУТ Рекомендуемые показатели эффективности для гостиниц и мест размещения – GSTC-I (w/H indicators) 
  • Отраслевые критерии ГСУТ Рекомендуемые показатели эффективности для туроператоров  – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators) 
  • Критерии для дестинаций – GSTC-D v2
  • Svenska GSTC Industry Criteria – GSTC-I
  • Svenska GSTC Destination Criteria – GSTC-D
  • เกณฑ์ GSTC สำหรับภาคอุตสาหกรรมท่องเที่ยว  พร้อมตัวชี้วัดประสิทธิภาพการปฏิบัตงานสำหรับธุรกิจโรงแรม และที่พัก – GSTC-I (w/H indicators) 
  • เกณฑ์ GSTC สำหรับภาคอุตสาหกรรมท่องเที่ยว พร้อมตัวชี้วัดประสิทธิภาพการปฏิบัตงานสำหรับธุรกิจนำเที่ยว – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators)
  • เกณฑ์ GSTC สำหรับแหล่งท่องเที่ยว  – GSTC-D v2
  • GSTC Endüstri Kriterleri – GSTC- I 
  • GSTC Endüstri Kriterleri Oteller ve Konaklama Yerleri için Önerilen Performans Göstergeleri ile Birlikte – GSTC-I (w/H indicators)
  • GSTC Endüstri Kriterleri Tur Operatörleri için Önerilen Performans Göstergeleri ile Birlikte – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators)
  • GSTC Destinasyon Kriterleri – GSTC-D v2
  • GSTC MICE Kriterleri GSTC-M
  • Критерії Глобальної ради зі сталого розвитку туризму – GSTC-D
  • Tiêu Chuẩn Du Lịch Bền Vững GSTC – GSTC-I
  • Tiêu Chuẩn Du Lịch Bền Vững GSTC Chỉ số đánh giá cho khách sạn – GSTC-I (w/H indicators)
  • Các Tiêu chí về Điểm đến của GSTC  – GSTC-D v2
  • Kriteret e KGTQ për Industrinë (w/Indikatorët e Performancës të Sugjeruar për Hotelet dhe Akomodimet) – GSTC-I (w/H indicators) 
  • Kriteret e KGTQ për Industrinë  (Indikatorët e Performancës të Sugjeruar për Operatorët Turistik)  – GSTC-I (w/TO indicatos)
  • GSTC Kriteret e Destinacionit Versioni 2.0 – GSTC-D
  • معايير المجلس العالمي للسياحة المستدامة لشركات القطاع السياحي (مع مؤشرات الأداء وأهداف التنمية المستدامة للفنادق وأماكن خدمات المبيت) – GSTC-I (w/H indicotors)
  • معايير المجلس العالمي للسياحة المستدامة لشركات القطاع السياحي (مع مؤشرات الأداء وأهداف التنمية المستدامة لمكاتب السياحة والسفر ومنظمي الرحلات والتجارب السياحية) – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators)
  • معايير المجلس العالمي للسياحة المستدامة للوجهات السياحية (مع مؤشرات الأداء وأهداف التنمية المستدامة) – GSTC-D
  • Indikatorima učinka i SDG-ovima – GSTC-M
  • GSTC လုးု္ငင္ ုးဆုိင္ရာ စံသ္္မရ့္္်က္  – GSTC-H
  • ္င္ျုမမုံုးစံ၃၊ ၂၀၁၆ ့ုးုႏရစ္၊ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၂၁ ရက္။ – GSTC-TO
  • ခရီးစဥ္ေဒသမ်ားအတြက္ ကမာၻလုံးဆိ ုင္ရာ ေရရွည္တည္တံ့သည့္ ခရီးသြားလုပ္ငန္းစံသတ္မွတ္ခ်က္မ်ား – – GSTC-D
  • Globální kritéria pro udržitelný cestovní ruch  – GSTC-H&TOv2
  • დარგობრივი კრიტერიუმები – GSTC-I
  • ტურ-ოპერატორებისათვის შეთავაზებული შესასრულებელი ინდიკატორები  – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators)
  • სასტუმროებისა და საცხოვრებელი ადგილებისათვის შესასრულებელი ინდიკატორები – GSTC-I (w/H indicators)
  • Κριτήρια του ΠΣΑΤ για τα Ξενοδοχεία – GSTC-I (w/H indicators)
  • Κριτήρια του ΠΣΑΤ για τους Τουριστικούς Πράκτορες – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators)
  • GSTC Κριτήρια για Προορισμούς  – GSTC-D v2
  • GSTC MICE Kritériumok – GSTC-M
  • Критериуми за индустријата на ГСОТ Сугерирани индикатори за успешност за хотели и сместувачки капацитети – GSTC-I (w/H indicators)
  • Критериуми за индустријата на ГСОТ Сугерирани индикатори за успешност за тур-оператори – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators)
  • Критериуми за Дестинации на Глобалниот совет за одржлив туризам – GSTC-D v2
  • Дэлхийн Тогтвортой Аялал Жуулчлалын Зөвлөл – Зорих газрын шалгуур үзүүлэлт – GSTC-D v2 

  •  معیارهاي شوراي جهانی گردشگري پایدار در بخش برگزارکنندگان گشت – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators) 
  •  معیارهاي شوراي جهانی گردشگري پایدار در بخش هتل – GSTC-I (w/H indicators)
  • معیارهاي شوراي جهانی گردشگري پایدار و نماگرهاي اجرایی پیشنهادي براي مقاصد – GSTC-D
  • فارسی – GSTC-1
  • Отраслевые критерии ГСУТ Рекомендуемые показатели эффективности для гостиниц и мест размещения – GSTC-I (w/H indicators) 
  • Отраслевые критерии ГСУТ Рекомендуемые показатели эффективности для туроператоров  – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators) 
  • Критерии для дестинаций – GSTC-D v2
  • Svenska GSTC Industry Criteria – GSTC-I
  • Svenska GSTC Destination Criteria – GSTC-D
  • เกณฑ์ GSTC สำหรับภาคอุตสาหกรรมท่องเที่ยว  พร้อมตัวชี้วัดประสิทธิภาพการปฏิบัตงานสำหรับธุรกิจโรงแรม และที่พัก – GSTC-I (w/H indicators) 
  • เกณฑ์ GSTC สำหรับภาคอุตสาหกรรมท่องเที่ยว พร้อมตัวชี้วัดประสิทธิภาพการปฏิบัตงานสำหรับธุรกิจนำเที่ยว – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators)
  • เกณฑ์ GSTC สำหรับแหล่งท่องเที่ยว  – GSTC-D v2
  • GSTC Endüstri Kriterleri – GSTC- I 
  • GSTC Endüstri Kriterleri Oteller ve Konaklama Yerleri için Önerilen Performans Göstergeleri ile Birlikte – GSTC-I (w/H indicators)
  • GSTC Endüstri Kriterleri Tur Operatörleri için Önerilen Performans Göstergeleri ile Birlikte – GSTC-I (w/TO indicators)
  • GSTC Destinasyon Kriterleri – GSTC-D v2
  • GSTC MICE Kriterleri GSTC-M
  • Критерії Глобальної ради зі сталого розвитку туризму – GSTC-D
  • Tiêu Chuẩn Du Lịch Bền Vững GSTC – GSTC-I
  • Tiêu Chuẩn Du Lịch Bền Vững GSTC Chỉ số đánh giá cho khách sạn – GSTC-I (w/H indicators)
  • Các Tiêu chí về Điểm đến của GSTC  – GSTC-D v2

Cannot find a translation of the GSTC Standard to your language? Contact us at info@gstc.org if you are interested in supporting a translation of the Standard to your language.

The above translations were done by volunteers and are available to the public for ONLY education, training, and awareness purposes. The translations should NOT be used for formal, technical purposes. Any formal use of the Standard must be based on the English originals and apply a certified translation if used in another language.

Note on the usage of the GSTC Standard:

  • The GSTC encourages broad use and application of the GSTC Standard, which are available from this website free of charge for their non-commercial use.
  • However, the GSTC reserves the right to assess and charge fees for the commercial use of the GSTC Standard.