Get your rusty nail award in for unsustainable tourism
The threatened Bonelli’s Eagle in flight
Give the threatening developers your rusty nail
Is there a VESTAs Rusty Nail in your region?
In the VESTAs, (Vision Destinet European Sustainable Tourism Awards) bad practice as well as good practice is being highlighted – a Rusty Nail award will be given to nominated tourism-related unsustainable and irresponsible stakeholder actions.
Examples might be: a piece of unjust government policy, poor governance, inappropriate property or destination development, corporate greed, harmful environmental business services/practices, oppressive and unfair social behaviour, unsustainable use of technology, etc…
In order to submit an example of irresponsible or unsustainable tourism activity to the VESTAs you have to fill in a nomination form, found on:
destinet.eu/tools/fol703514/fol588962/travelmoledestinet-sustainable-tourism-awards/vestas-rusty-nail-unsustainable-tourism-submission-form
An example of a Rusty Nail profile can be found on DestiNet for guidance. It focuses on the unsustainable development of the Algarve International Grand Prix development in southern Portugal, situated on the outskirts of the Monchique Natura 2000 Zone.
Here businesses and planners have collaborated to rush through a poorly planned 200 million Euro carbon- intensive motor sports tourism project, which mixes a noisy F1 standard motor racing circuit, with a technology park and tourism complex in the heartland of the red-listed Iberian lynx and Bonelli’s Eagle. So much for the regional sustainable development plan then…
Gordon Sillence designed the unsustainable tourism assessment tool for the VESTAs by merging the GSTC framework with the EU Impact Assessment process, then simplifying the procedure to enable either a short summary or more detailed description of the issue. “If there really is a problem of unsustainable tourism development, it can now be mapped and brought to the attention of all tourism stakeholders for resolution.” The VESTAs are now encouraging NGOs, consultants and citizens to send in their own local and regional examples of unsustainable or irresponsible tourism. For further information please visit destinet.eu/tools/fol703514/fol588962/travelmoledestinet-sustainable-tourism-awards
Valere Tjolle
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