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Glasgow Life - Tourism

As the strategic lead for tourism, part of Glasgow Life’s role is to support our city to adopt a cohesive and balanced approach to managing our destination. We aim to develop the sector to the benefit of our citizens, our economy and environment.  

We are focusing on key short terms deliverables and also longer-term actions which focus on helping to drive and support change across the city sector.

 

Glasgow Life has responsibility for key elements of the destination and will continue to work closely with stakeholders, industry and services as we strengthen our sustainable and responsible visitor economy.

 

Our activity will support Glasgow's overarching climate action plan  by focusing on key areas where our tourism and conventions team can have most impact.

 

We will support industry to make the necessary changes to becoming more sustainable, we will celebrate successes and will align with our national tourism organisation VisitScotland. 

 

Countries
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Sectors
Tourism
Health
Education
Scope
Local
Organisation Type
Civil society

Commitments:

Glasgow aspires to become one of Europe’s leading sustainable tourism destinations. The city has an overall goal to be carbon neutral by 2030 and acknowledges the destination’s role in promoting and encouraging responsible tourism.
 
Our city partners are making progress in a number of areas to help us review our practices and help drive change across the sector:
 
Glasgow is currently ranked 4th in the world on the Global Destination Sustainability Index (GDS-Index). which aims to bring destinations together to benchmark and improve the social and environmental performance of their respective meetings industries by highlighting best practice and promoting responsible business tourism.
 
In 2017, Glasgow Convention Bureau become the first ever convention bureau to win a Green Tourism Award; the go-to standard for sustainable tourism. Glasgow Convention Bureau was awarded a ‘Silver’ grading for demonstrating a progressive approach and commitment to sustainability.
 
In 2021 Glasgow became the first UK city to achieve EarthCheck Benchmarked Community Status. Based on the belief that ‘what gets measured, gets managed’ the EarthCheck Sustainable Destinations program helps communities to measure and monitor their environmental economic, and social impact, and prepare and track that performance against their own targets and the performance of other destinations across the world.
 
In 2021 Glasgow Convention Bureau also became the first convention bureau in the world to join the Tourism Declares initiative, which aims to inspire and encourage all sectors of the travel industry.
 
Glasgow played host to COP26 in 2021, which reflects our ambitious plans for a low carbon and climate resilient future.
 
We continue to build on our existing credentials to further support the city in achieving its sustainable objectives and play a greater role in helping to make Glasgow greener.

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