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Tourism and resource use
A snapshot
Stefanos Fotiou
United Nations Environment Programme
Sustainable tourism
development
The resource cycle in tourism
Consumption of natural
resources
•Transportation
•Land use
•Water use
•Use of energy
•Waste
Production of
tourism services
Production of
financial resources
•Nature
conservation
•Development
•Employment
•Local income
Consumption of
tourism services
The main argument
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The sustainability of tourism
development is depended mainly (but
not only) on patterns of:
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Consumption of resources (natural,
social, cultural, economic…);
Consumption (use) of tourism products
and services
Consumption oriented problems to be
addressed with production based
solutions AND behavioural change
The needs
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Measure the impacts (qualitative and
quantitative approach)
Develop a policy framework for
sustainable tourism
Create tools for governments, the
industry and the consumers
Implementation
UNEP’s response
Marrakech Task Force on
Sustainable Tourism Development
•Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria
•Tourism Sustainability Council
•Sustainable Investment and Finance in Tourism (SIFT)
•Green Passport Campaign
•ENVIROTEL tool
•Tourism and natural disasters
•Sustainable coastal tourism
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The workshop’s issues
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Energy Efficiency in the Tourism sector
The business case
Local benefits
Working with communities
Sustainable tourism and
economic efficiency
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Decrease the cost of handling the
impacts
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Conserve the assets of the tourism
development
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Increase profits
Assure future profits
Diversify the tourism products and thus
target new markets
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Generate new profits
Thank you for your kind
attention
stefanos.fotiou@unep.org

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