We have been introducing the Blue Community Assessment for Sustainable Tourism . In this post we will explain the types of questions asked inside the assessment and subject matters included. We have a nice collection of articles related to Sustainable Tourism for you to explore as well.
There are 20 metric groups with 135 questions to assess sustainability locally...
- Don't worry, you will not be responsible to submitting all of the data yourself....
- The assessment and your community's data will be submitted and edited as a team, over time.
- After your team is set up, you can invite experts and specialists in your community to gather data for any section.
- Every destination community has a dedicated team represented with a color beginning with the same letter as the first in your community. Example: Orlando is the Orange Team.
| Symbol | Metric Group |
|---|
| 📇 | Destination Contact Information |
| ⚙️ | Sustainability Management |
| 😎 | Tourism Satisfaction |
| 🧲 | Tourism Promotion |
| 💹 | Socio Economic Sustainability |
| 🏖️ | Tourism Seasonality |
| 🍛 | Cultural Sustainability |
| ☀️ | Energy Management |
| 💧 | Water Management |
| ♻️ | Waste Management |
| 🌄 | Land Management |
| 🏗️ | Building Design |
| 🚇 | Transportation |
| 🍼 | Plastic Reduction |
| 🌿 | Organic/Hydroponic Foods |
| 🦐 | Sustainable Seafood |
| 🏞️ | Habitat Protections |
| ⛵ | Certified Clean Marinas |
| 🏫 | Education Programs |
| 🌎 | Planetary Boundaries |
Features of Sustainability Assessment for Destinations
Every destination inside the app has a dedicated team for making edits to metrics. You can add members to your team for any metric group.
With an in-app dashboard, you can track the progress of your sustainability efforts for your destination, anytime, anywhere.
You'll find the entire Global Sustainable Tourism Council Criteria integrated into the Assessment App in addition to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Each question in the assessment is cross referenced with the related 12 Blue Community Strategies, the UN SDGs and the GSTC Criteria which specifically represents the subject matter.
Track Your Sustainability Efforts & Progress From Now until Forever:
Establish a baseline for your community by completing a series of questions, based on themes in sustainability. The Blue Community Assessment app allows the work of data collection, entry and update to be distributed across a team. All destinations are assigned a team color. When assessors log in, the system already knows that team they belong to and which criteria they are permitted to edit/update/access. Once all 133 questions have been given an initial answer, 100% of baseline will be complete. From that moment forward, everything is tracked based on updates provided to the assessment over time, activating Historical Data modules and such.
Give the Stakeholders a Reason to Trust You
Help the community trust you by providing the transparency stakeholders seek. Along with providing reference links to claims made inside the assessment, you can upload photos, videos, documents and evidence. When your destination provides demonstrable proof of improvement and implementations, the public will have a way to see you accomplish your established goals in real time. Blue Community will help your team with your plan and everything you need to succeed with your team efforts.
Establish & Showcase Best Practices in Sustainability
In addition to establishing best practices by improving a destinations metrics, you can add best practices to the system and sort by category and metric group
Learn from Best Practices in other destinations within the system.
Track your destination’s progress over time, as a system, and engage your stakeholders in a in a transparent and easy to manage assessment application. When something improves within a metric group, your Destination will have the opportunity to add a Best Practice to the Blue Community Assessment system
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