Sustainable Destination Management
Strategies in the OIC Member Countries
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Embrace the Paris Climate Agreement: It is imperative that governments commit to
implementing the Paris Climate Agreement that aims to combat climate change, as well as
increase the ability of countries to deal with the impacts of climate change.
5. Ensuring Community Wellbeing – Destination/national level
Build Capacity at the Community Level: It is essential, and a necessary component of
any long-term, sustainable tourism initiative. The key here is establishing and nourishing
a meaningful relationship between the destination planners/developers and the local
community.
Create a Culture of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The role of local-to-place
businesses, and their capacity to change quickly as circumstances alter, will do much to
help build capacity, sustain local employment and ensure that benefit remains with those
people responsible for the maintenance of the local tourism environment over the short-
term. One way of attempting to create a culture of sustainable entrepreneurship is the use
of taxation to promote businesses that employ, retain and encourage local employment,
and that buy local services and goods from sustainable sources.
6. Ensuring Tourist Satisfaction – Destination Level
Take measures to ensure tourist satisfaction: Providing innovative products and services,
ensuring a quality experience, and continually monitoring tourist satisfaction and taking
corrective measures when needed, are some of the ways to ensure tourist satisfaction.