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31 August 2023

2023 Certificate in Regenerative Destination Management

Learn how to manage destinations through regenerative business models, destination stewardship approaches, and stakeholder engagement methodologies. We are all under pressure: visitor economies, their host communities, the earth, and the vulnerable. We need a new approach to recover, flourish, and thrive.

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2 May 2023

Storytelling and Communication Strategies for Regeneration

In this dynamic and fun Masterclass we will explore traditional communication strategies and how they can be applied to communicating sustainability and enhance its purpose. You will be introduced to remarkable examples of storytelling by destinations and brands that inspire and elevate sustainability and make it accessible to broader audiences.

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Impact Strategy and Measurement Masterclass, Online

Currently, only a small number of destinations have clearly defined legacy and impact strategies and use outcome and impact indicators to monitor their non-financial performance. Go to the next level of performance: learn the latest social impact theories and approaches to enable you to develop a robust impact strategy and implement measurement processes to monitor…

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2 March 2023

Certificate in Regenerative Destination Management

Learn how to manage destinations through regenerative business models, destination stewardship approaches, and stakeholder engagement methodologies. We are all under pressure: visitor economies, their host communities, the earth, and the vulnerable. We need a new approach to recover, flourish, and thrive.

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PODCAST | Create Enduring Value with Sustainability Projects

GDS-Movement and Meet4impact changemakers, Jessica Vandy and Alexis Kereluk, and Simpleview’s Future Tourism Group lead, David Peacock, discuss how to how to build momentum and action to develop lasting positive value through sustainability efforts that continuously support more regenerative tourism on the Future of Tourism podcast. “We need to take a very careful look at…

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8 February 2023

Feeling the Pulse: Using Events to Catalyse Regeneration & Impact

Do you wish your destination’s events created less waste, and more legacy? Less carbon and more social cohesion? They can do much more than that. They can deliver benefits to people, planet, and place, and improve business performance, profitability, and growth. How? When you mitigate a meeting’s footprint and amplify its handprint, you transform it…

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7 February 2023

Feeling the Pulse: Using Events to Catalyse Regeneration & Impact

Do you wish your destination’s events created less waste, and more legacy? Less carbon and more social cohesion? They can do much more than that. They can deliver benefits to people, planet, and place, and improve business performance, profitability, and growth. How? When you mitigate a meeting’s footprint and amplify its handprint, you transform it…

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A Medical Event Sharpens Sustainability Contributions

An association for cataract surgeons ensures its events have a more positive social, environmental, and economic impact through measurement and strategy. What does it take to ensure an event has increasingly positive sustainability impacts? For the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS), vision, collaboration, and action are key. It has taken the medical…

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Results, Trends & Insights from the 2022 GDS-Index

The GDS-Index is a destination-level programme that measures, benchmarks and improves the sustainability strategy and performance of tourism and events destinations.  The GDS-ICCA-CityDNA 4-month course for Regenerative Destination Management starts on 2nd March 2023 The 2022 GDS-Index showcases brave, bold and pioneering destinations that recognise the urgent need to work together to regenerate cities…

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Guy Bigwood

Chief Changemaker & CEO, Global Destination Sustainability Movement

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For the last 15 years, Guy has been delivering award-winning consulting services focused on helping cities, governments, corporations and associations step up, scale up and speed up their sustainability programmes and regenerative practices. Guy’s pioneering work has been recognised with 22 sustainability awards including the Events Industry Council Pacesetter Award, and recognition as a Fellow…

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