Section: 2 Sustainable Destination Management | Sustainable Tourism for Small Island Developing States

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2 Sustainable Destination Management
Welcome to this second chapter of our online course. In this module "Sustainable Destination Management" you will learn to:

describe destination management

articulate long-term goals for tourism development, and track progress toward their achievement

identify and employ strategies and tools to manage destinations more sustainably
- Select activity What are you going to learn in this chapter?
  
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  What are you going to learn in this chapter? Page
  
  In this video, sustainable tourism expert Sara Currie welcomes you and gives you an overview of what you are going to learn in this chapter. Sara Currie is a tourism expert at the Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative.
- Select activity Theory: Sustainable Destination Management
  
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  In this training booklet we summarized all key information and concepts about sustainable destination management. You will learn to understand the visitors' motivations and learn about industry and traveler indicators. You will be able to design visitor studies and to understand statistics. Finally, you will prepare an asset inventory and learn how to develop a vision and goals for the destination.
- Select activity Practical Insight: the South Pacific
  
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  Practical Insight: the South Pacific Page
  
  Now that you know about sustainable destination management in general, we would like to give you some insights into the challenges of destination management in the South Pacific. Tourism expert Jennifer Bartlett, who you already met earlier in this course, will share her experience with you.
- Select activity Practical Insight: Cape Verde
  
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  Robin Mason gives you an introduction to destination management processes in Cape Verde.
- Select activity Exercise 2: Sustainable Destination Management
  
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  Exercise 2: Sustainable Destination Management Page
  
  Welcome to the next step of your way to develop a first concept for sustainable tourism. In the first part you chose a Small Island Developing State and described it from a tourism perspective.
  
  In this second step, you are supposed to conduct the asset inventory. (If you don’t remember exactly how to do it, please read again pages 21-24 of your training booklet.) We have prepared a step-by-step guide for this task. You can put your results into the interactive questionnaire and export it as a text document in the end.
- Select activity Wrap-up
  
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  Congratulations! You finished our introductory lesson about sustainable destination management. Click on the heading to learn where to continue and where to find more information.