# Global Sustainable Tourism Council

Global Sustainable Tourism Conference in Antalya in 2023

The Sustainable Tourism Conference, which is held in a different country every year by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), the world's top environment and sustainability platform, will be held in Antalya in 2023. The announcement that the conference, which will be held in May and will be hosted by Turkey for the first time, will be held in Antalya, was made by GSTC CEO Randy Durband at the 2022 GSTC Sustainable Tourism Conference held in Seville, Spain. The 2023 Antalya conference of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council, organized by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), which sets and manages global standards for sustainable travel and tourism; It will host more than 350 local and foreign participants consisting of public institutions, hotels, tour operators, universities, development agencies and other sector representatives. The content of the conference, which will last for 4 days, consists of trainings, meetings and social activities. Turkey created the roadmap Turkey, which created the "sustainable tourism roadmap" by making a cooperation agreement with the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) at the beginning of 2022, became the first country to make an agreement "with the government in the field of sustainable tourism". While Turkey's tourism industry was restructured with the three-year protocol signed with GSTC, which sets the most widespread and highest standards in the field of sustainable tourism, the 'National Sustainable Tourism Program' was created for this purpose. National Sustainable Tourism Programme; It aims to transform the entire tourism sector by including destinations and tour operators, especially accommodation facilities. Under the leadership of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and TGA, within the scope of the Sustainable Tourism Program, which was put forward in cooperation with all sectors and international organizations; By the end of 2023, all accommodation facilities in Turkey are required to comply with the 1st phase of the program. Source: Haber7