What is Sustainable Tourism?

This is a kind of travel attitude that consciously sees the traveler and the industry player as part of the world’s collective. Responsible tourism, ecotourism, cultural tourism - everything boils down to experiencing and understanding, and even capitalizing on just enough of nature and culture, and making sure future generations get to have the same thing, or even more.

Sustainable Tourism is about being responsible, concerned and aware. It transcends race and income – it upholds communities, respects traditions, conserves nature and relishes interactive experience… so the world would continue to live.

Sustainable Tourism development meets the needs of the present tourists and host regions while protecting and enhancing the opportunity for the future. It is envisaged as leading to management of all resources in such a way that economic, social and aesthetic needs can be fulfilled, while maintaining cultural integrity, essential ecological processes, biological diversity and life support systems (From the UN Environment Programme on Tourism).