Our Objectives
Gather competences and expertises of the actors from the society (NGO, associations, professionals of the field, mass media) and from governments.
Create new synergies.
Present common positions and make appropriate and consistent proposals.
Denounce irresponsible practices and accompany the actors towards more responsible tourism.
Inform, sensitize, explain, clarify and provoke the debate on the topic of responsible tourism on a local, national & international plan.
Mobilize national and international authorities towards a policy of sustainable development of the field.
Promote cultural and natural heritage of the different countries.
Our Missions
Link the different fields of the society
Tourism links numerous actors: tourists, local populations, public sector, private sector regrouping tourism professionnals, NGO or associations, etc. Link all these actors around a common ambition is one of the aim of the coalition.
Promote in the world June 2nd, Sensitize and mobilize the public
Promote in the world, the International Day for Responsible Tourism which is organised every year on June 2nd. Make tourists and general public become aware about the important impacts of both traditional tourism and mass tourism and to inform them on the possibilities « of travelling in another way and responsible», it is one of the stakes of the international coalition.
Fuel the debate
While more and more "sustainable" projects appear, it is essential to provoke a debate on the topic of responsible tourism.
To mobilize policies at National, European and International level
Through advocacy activities, the International Coalition for Responsible Tourism will look after the fact that the national, European, international institutions promise to promote and to implement responsible tourist development policies.
To mobilize professionnals of tourism field
To apply the concept of sustainable development in concrete terms in the tourism field, the International Coalition will have as mission to sensitize, to inform, to mobilize the French and international professionals of tourism in the interest of responsible tourism.
To reinforce capacities of NGO in North and South Countries
International Coalition for Responsible Tourism tries to improve links between its members and to coordinate their actions and their capacity of influence. The function of coordination of the International Coalition will allow to gather competences and expertises and to create new synergies to introduce representative common positions and to make appropriate and consistent proposals.
A global action for Responsible Tourism
Tourism become a main tool for the development of countries in the following years. To confront to these issue, the International Coalition need to bring together all the people involved in international sustainable tourism.
Tourism industry caused important negative impacts on the three axes of the sustainable development (economic, social & ecological). Thus, Responsible Tourism is the concept which can make the field more sustainable.
In fact, a large & global action is necessary in order to draw the whole attention, to make people sensitive and to promote to the general public about responsible tourism. A general awareness is thus necessary at different levels (family, local, national or international).