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World Tourism OrganizationSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM

TOI Annual General Meeting (AGM)TOI Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Centre International de Conférences, Geneva27 October 2008

Possibilities for UNWTO-TOI Collaborative Actions in Sustainable Tourism

Gabor Vereczi

Chief, Environment and Quality SectionSustainable Development of Tourism

World Tourism Organization


Integrating Tourism into Climate Change Adaptation - Maldives


Knowledge Growth and Sharing

Technology Assessment and Uptake

Awareness Raising & Facilitating Action

Education and Training

Island Resorts

Island Communities

Natural Ecosystems

On The Ground:Demonstration of

Good Adaptation PracticesLearning of Lessons

Safari Boats

Island Communities

Natural Ecosystems

Government

Strengthened Institutions

Integrated Policies

and

Effective Coordination

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2

3

Integrated approach


COMPONENT 1: Strengthened National Policies• Institutional strengthening and coordination

• Policy options

• Longer-term projections

COMPONENT 2: Effective Adaptation Initiatives for Island Resort• Good practice guidelines, practical examples

• Waste, sewage and fresh water management

• Conservation practices

• Monitoring networks

• Weather and seasonal climate forecasts

COMPONENT 3: Dissemination of information• Awareness raising (conferences, brochures, etc.)

• Web-based national and small islands knowledge centre

• Training courses

• Cooperation with the Maldives College

Enhancing the Resilienceof the Maldives to Climate Change


Excellence in Energy for the Tourism Industry (EETI)

Objectives

• Increase use of Energy Efficiency (EE) and Renewable Energy Technologies (RET) by SME hotels in the European Union

• Strengthen hotel sector networks (e.g., National hotel associations, destination authorities, energy management agencies) for promotion of EE & RET in hotels

• Build better links between users in the hotel sector and EE & RET suppliers and manufacturers

• Stimulate innovation by manufacturers and suppliers of EE & RET to meet the needs of SME hotels

• Sensitise National and Local Authorities on adoption of suitable supporting measures, policies and incentives to encourage use of EE & RET by SME hotels

Implemented by UNWTO in cooperation with UNEP-DTIE, International Hotel and Restaurant Association (IH&RA), European Renewable Energy Council (EREC), French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME)


Possible lines of collaboration with TOI within the EETI Project:

• Collaboration in conducting a survey on assessment of factors influencing EE and RE use by SME hotels in EU by promoting the EETI project and the survey itself to TOI’s networks of collaborators, partners and suppliers, encouraging hotels to reply and provide their input.

• Provide TOI with an opportunity to participate in the activities of the End User Advisory Group, discussing training, information dissemination, usability of methodologies created within the project in order to help ensure the project delivers useful and practical outcomes for the hotels sector.

• Participate in demonstration projects at pilot destinations


Launching and development of the ST-EP programme and foundation

• Launching ST-EP Programme during the WSSD 2002 in Johannesburg

• Rep. of Korea offers initial amount of USD 5 million and to host Foundation in Seoul (operations started in March 2006)

• € 2 million contribution from SNV (+ in kind advisory services) to ST-EP Programme, € 1.5 million from Italy, US$ 200,000 from Macau, € 100,000 from Flemish Government, Technical Advisor from French Government


AFRICAAFRICABenin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia

ASIAASIABhutan, Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Nepal, Viet Nam

AMERICAAMERICABolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru

EUROPEEUROPEAlbania

ST-EP projects world-wide

• Identification missions fielded to 27 countries(> 150 pilot projects identified)

• 74 projects approved for implementation


ST-EP projects: an example

ACTIVITIES• Strengthen institutional support structure for Cultural Tourism• Guideline formulation and quality control• Training for business planning, and product improvement and

diversification• Identification and development of new cultural tourism enterprises• Active marketing and promotion

EXPECTED IMPACT• 10 new cultural tourism enterprises to be developed• 20% annual growth in number of tourists visiting CT enterprises (30,000 -> 50,000)• Additional 250 households directly (mechanisms 1-4) benefiting from the Cultural Tourism

and 750 households indirectly (mechanisms 5-7) benefiting from it.

TANZANIACultural Tourism Enhancement & Diversification Project

Higher visitor spending and benefits to rural communities through the Tanzania Cultural Tourism Programme


International Year of Biodiversity 2010

Build on the:

• Convention on Biological Diversity in 2002

• International Year of Ecotourism 2002

• CBD Guidelines on Biodiversity and Tourism Development in 2004

Proposed activities:

• Research on policies and management tools (e.g. financing of protected areas)

• Awareness campaign

• Conferences, workshops, pilot projects

• WWF-TOI partnership projects


Sustainable tourism development at World Heritage SitesManagement techniques, conservation issues, community benefits

Sustainable Tourism Policy Initiative for World Heritage Sites

Series of expert workshops

• conference in 2009

Heritage Interpretation for Sustainable Tourism

• Guidebook

International Conference on Sustainable Tourism at WHC

(Huangshan, China, 24-27 March 2008)

World Tourism OrganizationSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM Huangshan Sustainable Tourism Observatory

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Documents

use of ee

suppliers of ee

climate change slide

use of energy efficiency

needs of sme hotels

promotion of ee

energy management agencies

integrated approach