Was it time to act on measuring sustainable tourism a decade ago?

A high-level mul­ti­lat­er­al con­fer­ence under the aus­pices of the World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) has pro­duced a declar­a­tion recog­nising the need to do some­thing about meas­ur­ing sus­tain­able tour­ism (MST); determ­in­ing tourism’s true con­tri­bu­tion to the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (SDGs). The “Manila Call for Action on Meas­ur­ing Sus­tain­able Tour­ism” says tour­ism min­is­ters, stat­ist­ic­al chiefs, and envir­on­ment­al officials […]