Sustainable Destinations Alliance for the Americas
Sustainable Travel International
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Description
The SDAA takes an integrated approach to destination stewardship that educates and empowers local leaders to improve the management of tourism impacts and ensure that necessary policies, programs, plans, and systems are in place for the long term. The SDAA is focused on building local capacity and destination competitiveness, which includes the implementation of an extensive Destination Stewardship toolkit in each destination. This toolkit:
• Engages local leaders to identify destination-level risks and priorities, and embrace locally-developed tourism best practices
• Aids in the design and implementation of solutions to tourism challenges that generate tangible, quantifiable results
• Ensures that success stories are communicated locally and internationally to add value and return on investment to sustainability programs
Destinations participating in the SDAA commit to appointing key counterparts from the Ministry of Tourism, Tourism Boards and government agencies responsible for tourism statistics to work hand-in-hand with Sustainable Travel International on all phases of the project. On-site knowledge transfer of tools and methodologies is a core component of the initiative. <br />
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In addition, destination-level multi-sectoral Destination Stewardship Councils are established. These leaders from private sector, government and civil society, commit to oversee work on destination sustainability beyond the time horizon of the initiative and also are responsible for overseeing the implementation of the action agendas and Destination Monitoring System.<br />
Sustainable Travel International is the SDAA’s leading convener and implementation partner.
• United States Permanent Mission to the OAS
• Organization of American States
• Caribbean Tourism Organization
• Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
• Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
• The Secretariat of Central American Tourism Integration
• G Adventures/Planeterra
SDGS & Targets
Goal 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.1
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
14.1.1
(a) Index of coastal eutrophication; and (b) plastic debris density
14.2
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
14.2.1
Number of countries using ecosystem-based approaches to managing marine areas
14.3
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
14.3.1
14.4
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
14.4.1
14.5
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
14.5.1
14.6
By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation
14.6.1
Degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
14.7
By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
14.7.1
Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries
14.a
Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
14.a.1
14.b
Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
14.b.1
Degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small‐scale fisheries
14.c
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of "The future we want"
14.c.1
Number of countries making progress in ratifying, accepting and implementing through legal, policy and institutional frameworks, ocean-related instruments that implement international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources
SDG 14 targets covered
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- Europe
- North America
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Contact Information
Soraya Shattuck, Senior Director, Global Programs