The doc, offered in the course of the first day of FITUR, emphasises the worth of the regeneration of the pure setting as a tourism mannequin to contribute to sustainability and the combat in opposition to local weather change.
MADRID – FiturNext, the FITUR Observatory devoted to selling good tourism practices that worth sustainability in alliance with CAF – Development Bank of Latin America, has launched 4 conferences that spotlight the significance of contributing to the regeneration of the pure setting via tourism. One of crucial facets of the inauguration was the presentation of the report “Towards a regenerative tourism”, a doc that features good sustainable practices and the principle conclusions of the evaluation carried out by the Observatory all through this version.
Francisco Rodríguez, head of the tourism space at Ideas for Change, the entity that has developed the analysis, was in command of explaining the important thing factors of the report, stressing “that the objective of tourism must be to have a clearly positive impact. To this end, regenerative tourism is the strongest bet”.
Prize-giving ceremony with the protagonists of the occasion
The celebration of the awards ceremony for the profitable and finalist initiatives of the 2023 Challenge is likely one of the highlights of the version. Oscar Caro, CEO and Founder of Plogging Tour, Sandra Benbeniste, Director of the Iberostar Group EMEA Sustainability Office, and Nani Angulo and Juan Andrés Pozueta, co-founders of Green Pepper Travel, collected the awards in the course of the ceremony. It is price mentioning the presence of Christian Asinelli, Vice-President Director of Strategic Programming of the CAF Presidency, and Dr. Daniela Moreno, member of the FiturNext Advisory Board, who offered the awards along with the Ideas for Change staff.
The presentation was adopted by the spherical desk dialogue “From corporate social responsibility to sectoral social responsibility” moderated by Javi Creus, Founder and Strategy Director of Ideas for Change. During the session, sector specialists resembling Miwi Clavera, Managing Director of Dirse, highlighted the union between corporations to share challenges and search options collectively. To these phrases, Antonia del Toro, CSR Director of Grupo Piñero, added how collaboration between corporations and sectors may help to enhance the world via awareness-raising actions on sustainability.
Asinelli commented that the organisation is implementing an “agenda” to turn out to be the inexperienced financial institution of Latin America and the Caribbean, dedicating 40% of its funding to initiatives linked to local weather change and biodiversity. In this sense, we can even contribute to the event of sustainable and regenerative tourism that results in the restoration and enhancement of the area’s wealthy pure and cultural heritage, and that values ecosystem providers.
An inauguration that units the agenda for FiturNext 2023
Throughout the day, the stand has additionally hosted dialogues with the profitable initiatives of the version to be taught extra about how they contribute to a extra accountable tourism with the setting and the local people. Caro held a dialog with Juan Martorell, deputy director of the Consejo Superior de Deportes, and Beatriz Soliva, director of institutional relations of Plogging Tour, about sport as a instrument for territorial transformation. On the opposite hand, Benbeniste and the journalist and advisor Isabel Benítez, mentioned find out how to regenerate the setting to revalue tourism.
Finally, the day closed with Angulo and Pozueta, in a dialogue with the journalist Kris Ubach. During the session, the audio system shared methods and instruments for bettering planetary well being via regenerative tourism.
The first day kicked off FiturNext 2023, which can happen on the Ifema exhibition centre till Saturday 21 January. The programme included a spherical desk dialogue with Marta Domènech, Director of Tourism of Catalonia, and Isabel Vidal Tomás, Director of Tourism of the Balearic Islands, on “Regenerative public policies”, moderated by Francisco Rodríguez.
In addition, specialists from the tourism sector, resembling Arturo Bravo, Vice-Minister of Tourism of Colombia, and Frederico Granato, President of the National Parks of Argentina, can be current within the framework of the CAF house. Winning and finalist initiatives from previous editions can even take part with audio system resembling Antonia Varela, from the Starlight Foundation, Alberto Pordomingo, from Apadrina un Olivo, Gemma Roselló, from Sentir el Alto Tajo, Sandra Carvao, from the World Tourism Organization, Miguel Carrasco, from Predif, and finalists of the 2023 Challenge resembling Olga Caro from Procoreef and David Leventhal from Playa Viva.
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