For the 6th time, the Sustainable Destinations Top 100 competition is organised to showcase sustainable tourism stories and good practices of local and regional destinations, as inspiring examples to others, to tour operators and to travelers.
Destinations benefit from participation by using the online platform of the GSTC-Recognised Green Destinations Standard, which enables for GSTC-Accredited certification. Using the Green Destinations criteria and the online platform helps in enhancing tourism sustainability, in avoiding overtourism and in building local community support. It also helps making tourism more profitable, by alerting destinations on hidden costs connected to tourism development. By publishing an annual list and by sharing destination management good practices and success stories, the initiators wish to acknowledge initiatives making tourism destinations more sustainable, responsible and more attractive from a visitor experience point of view.
2019 Top 100 and 2020 Top 100 pre-selection destinations qualify for the Sustainable Destinations Top 100 Awards to be presented at ITB Berlin 2020.
2020 call for nominations