Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC)

Accreditation Services: Accredition consists of GSTC placing a quality mark on the standards and/or processes of Certificaiton Bodies that certify travel and tourism products as sustainable. Recognition consists of verifying that the owner of a set of standards for sustainable tourism comply with the global baseline standards, the GSTC criteria.

Education and Training: GSTC conducts online training classes plus various forms of mulit-day on-site training classes for all players in travel and tourism including the private section, public sector, ,NGOs, and academia.

Destinations: As an Accreditation Body, GSTC places marks for certifying bodies that certify touristic destinations as sustainable. Additionally, to assist policy-makers at the national, provincial or state level, plus destination managers at the municipal level, which are always public sector, GSTC offers planning and capacity-building tools. For planning, we provide assessments of current situation with recommendations for future action. For capacity-building we offer multi-day training sessions for policy-makers. makers.

GSTC provides advisory services on sustainable policiies and practices to governments throughout the world, at national levels such as Ministries of Tourism and Enviornment, at provincial and municipal levels, and to tourism businesses.