Working Together with Local Communities and Governments for Better Destination Management Through UN Tourism QUEST
Among the sectors most impacted by new global issues, tourism, and more particularly tourist destinations, must face new challenges, but can also seize new opportunities allowing them to create value chains throughout their territories. How do we act positively on climate change? How do we develop tourist – and economic – activity throughout the year? How to highlight local know-how? How to provide innovative and lasting solutions to environmental issues? Ultimately, how can we involve local communities in managing virtuous tourism? … Faced with these new prerogatives, DMOs around the world must, urgently, reinvent their model, to satisfy these problems while ensuring their economic viability.
Whether for some it is a question of creating their structure from scratch, or for others, of rethinking their economic and governance model, the QUEsT certification was created by UN Tourism to offer them a diagnosis, but also support and a range of tools and services allowing them to implement the advice provided by the experts of the UNTourism Academy and the good practices exchanged between peers, that is to say between OGDs members of the network QUEsT.
It is in this sense that a webinar on the theme: “Working with #localcommunities and governments for better destination management through #UNTourismQuest” was co-organized by Professor Kazem Vafadari, Professor Jafar Jafari, Professor Malcolm Cooper, Hira Sakura, Marlene Maier, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University and SCoT Webinars, for this incredible webinar on the hashtag #UNTourismQUEST and Corporación Regional de Turismo de la Región de Valparaiso.
And thanks to:
- Francisco Godoy Imperatore, general director of the Corporación Regional de Turismo de la Región de Valparaíso;
- Caroline Couret, Founder and CEO of Creative Tourism Network®;
- Christian Arteaga, co-founder and CEO of SMART Tourism & Hospitality Consulting;
- Prof. Dr. Kazem Vafadari, Director of the Ritsumeikan International Center for Asia-Pacific Tourism (iCAPt) and more… for the incredible panel of experts.
We learned a lot about what goes into destination management…and what could be done for the sustainability of the destination and the well-being of all.
Thank you Professor Jafari and Professor Cooper for your wise words!
If you would like to watch or replay this webinar, go to:
https://lnkd.in/e4AtpUDZ
Or:
English version: https://lnkd.in/eX78jjjK
Spanish version: https://lnkd.in/e3hEguH9
