Organizer

Smart Community Tourism

Email

info@scotwebinars.org

Website

http://www.scotwebinars.org

Date

Sep 17 2022

Expired!

Time

Berlin Time

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Languages

English

	Willy Legrand Moderator
	Natasha Montesalvo Panelist
	Rui Mendes Panelist
$Louise Cottar, Trustee of The Long Run, Co-Owner and Managing Director of Cottar\'s Safaris, and Cottar’s Safari Services Ltd., Kenya, and Long Run GERLouise Cottar is a Co-Owner and Managing Director of Cottar\'s Safaris (Nineteen Twenties Safari Camps Ltd) and Cottar’s Safari Services Ltd. Louise has a degree in International Business and a Masters in Business. As well as working part-time for Cottar\'s, she also has worked for 25 years in Somalias’ public and private sectors in strategic planning, fragile states engagement, and peace processes. Louise sits on the board of The Long Run and Cottar’s Wildlife Conservation Trust, and is the Chair of Classics Safari Africa.$	Louise Cottar Panelist
	Jonathon Day Panelist

Local Time

Timezone: America/New_York
Date: Sep 17 2022
Time: 7:00 am - 9:00 am

Volume 44

Name: Volume 64
Start: 2024-12-15
End: 2024-12-15

Global standards vs. local realities – how to make it work in tourism and hospitality?

There appear to be two coexisting, and occasionally at odds, conceptions among sustainable tourism and hospitality experts in regards to setting an industry sustainability agenda. Ensuring a universal and agreed sustainability approach with the opportunity to benchmark performance across geographies is represented by international standards and certification programs. At the same time, tourism and hospitality are also inherently local relying on regional infrastructures and responding to local stakeholders’ demands and expectations. What is the ideal balance between unique, local sustainability action plans and conventional frameworks for sustainable hospitality and tourism? Which standards allow for appropriate room for modifications based on regional realities? What other justifications support or undermine the use of both strategies? How much does the business’s size and structure affect the strategy? A webinar with researchers and on-the-ground experts to untangle the ‘Think Global, Act Local’ - or is it rather to ‘Think Local, Act Global’?