Sustainable Destination Management: Engaging Tourism Businesses

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With the shared aim of elevating sustainability practices across the tourism industry, the teams at Travindy and TrainingAid are working together to develop solutions to help destinations effectively engage tourism businesses in sustainability initiatives.

Are you a destination representative, and is your destination engaged in sustainability-related efforts? Regardless of where you currently are on your sustainability journey, we would appreciate your input on your current practices and future needs around engagement of tourism businesses in sustainability.

This survey will take approximately 5 minutes to complete.

Please submit your answers by the 29th of February 2024.

1. How would you rate your current efforts towards engaging tourism businesses in sustainability? *

Very unsuccessful

Extremely successful

2. What are the main objectives of your your destination's efforts in engaging businesses in sustainability initiatives? (Select all that apply)
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To increase awareness about sustainability issues

To implement sustainable practices (to increase sustainability performance of the destination)

To comply with regulations and standards

To comply with requirements of a sustainable destination certification / index / award program

To enhance the destination’s reputation

To foster community involvement and development

To increase the number of certified businesses in the destination

Other:

Required

3. What are the biggest challenges you face in engaging tourism businesses in sustainability initiatives? (Select all that apply)
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Lack of interest or awareness among stakeholders

Lack of clear regulations or standards

Insufficient financial resources (in our organisation/ department)

Insufficient human resources (in our organisation/ department)

Lack of time (in our organisation/ department)

Lack of knowledge about sustainability to teach the industry what to do

Difficulty in measuring and showing the impact of sustainability initiatives

Conflicting interests among different stakeholders

Other:

Required

4. What resources or support would help you more effectively engage tourism businesses in sustainability initiatives? (Select all that apply)
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Access to more funding or financial incentives

Training materials and resources on sustainability

Capacity building of locally-based sustainable tourism trainers and consultants

Better communication tools and platforms

Examples of best practices and case studies

Support from government or regulatory bodies

Study tours to show stakeholders how this works in other destinations

Other:

Required

5. Does your organisation currently have a dedicated budget for sustainability-related initiatives?
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Yes

6. Do you already work with any existing sustainability certification program(s)?
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Yes

7. How would you rate the importance of increasing the number of certified businesses in your destination in the next 2 years?
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Not at all important

Extremely important

If you have any other comments or suggestions regarding engaging stakeholders in sustainability, please share them here.

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