The 4th International Symposium on Sustainable Tourism in Agadir

The 4th International Symposium on Sustainable Tourism held Monday, February 24, 2014 in Agadir, Morocco. Organised under the aegis of the Ministry of Tourism of Morocco, this year's theme was "Steering and Monitoring Sustainability in Tourism." 

Held annually, the International Symposium on Sustainable Tourism provided a forum for exchange between partners, experts and professionals in the public and private sector and civil society. This fourth edition is aimed at creating a progressive dynamic action for sustainable tourism between policy makers and researchers, involving institutional parts, private sector, civil society, NGOs, local stakeholders and agencies of international finance everyone.

The Symposium was held in three panels

The first was devoted to the presentation of the strategic commitments of governments to promote sustainable tourism in national policies and development strategies:

• Implementation of sustainable tourism in its social, economic and environmental dimensions.
• Issues relating to thé regulatory framework, promotion stratégies and investment opportunities for thé Private sector support.

The second panel, "Tools for monitoring sustainability at the scale of a destination," the opportunity to share successful in the use of indicators for monitoring, management and optimization experiments of use indicators to help stakeholders to measure progress and to implement corrective actions when deficiencies.

The third panel, "The monitoring indicators of sustainability in tourist accommodation establishments", focused on the responsibilities that must be met by private operators in optimizing the performance, participation in local development, alignment with national goals, but also to the accompanying tools put in place to encourage sustainable development initiatives at their level.

Source: http://www.tourisme-durable.org/