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Virginia Destination Management Organizations: An Interview With Local Director, Irene Kilmer

Solimar International

Learn about one of the most interesting Virginia Destination Management Organizations here. What is the role of Virginia Destination Management Organizations in working with this national brand? Destination Management as a concept has only been in practice for roughly 50 years now. Read more below.

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Sustaining the Resilience of Community-Based Tourism Initiatives in Brazil

Solimar International

Community-Based Tourism (CBT) exemplifies sustainable tourism, promoting local development through social justice, resource redistribution, sustainability, and empowerment. This paradigm shift reinterprets tourism models, emphasizing consciousness, autonomy, and bottom-up strategies while detaching from predatory practices.

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Role of Tourism Consultants: Secret to Success

Solimar International

As they utilize their broad knowledge and expertise, these tourism consultants carve a path toward prosperity for their clients, showcasing the undeniable importance of their role in shaping and promoting sustainable travel destinations. In order to efficiently organize all these moving parts of the $1.9

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Sustainable Tourism: How it Impacts Communities – Solimar

Solimar International

Sustainable Tourism: How it Impacts Communities – Solimar Kairouan (Kairouan – Photo by Haythem Gataa on Unsplash ) Sustainable Tourism: The Turning Tide of Travel We all know the age-old story of mass tourism. Sorum has been at the forefront of pioneering sustainable tourism initiatives.

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How can Tourism help Destinations Address Climate Change?

Solimar International

The pressing issue of climate change in destinations, exacerbated by escalating greenhouse gas emissions and resultant global warming, will be a defining challenge for the tourism industry over the next several decades. In this blog post, we will discuss the significance of tourism in helping destinations address climate change.

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Why DMOs must be about Management, not just Marketing

Solimar International

They were primarily established to promote destinations. However, with the rapid growth of tourism, the need for its sustainability and management of the sector eventually emerged. At Solimar, we have seen time and time again why the M in DMO must also be about destination management, and not just destination marketing.

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Visiting Capurganá, Colombia – Nature Based Tourism

Solimar International

Conceptualizing this with the definition of sustainable tourism, and you have nature as the driver for economic benefits, socio-cultural development, and environmental preservation of landscapes and biodiversity. A major opportunity to build sustainable, nature-based tourism development in Capurganá comes from capacity building programs.

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