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Opportunities for Sustainable Investment and Financing in Tourism: The SIFT Network

Opportunities for Sustainable Investment and Financing in Tourism: The SIFT Network. Erica Allis United Nations Environment Programme Eleventh Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development May 9 th -13 th St. Michael, Barbados. How investment is often done. So they build this.

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Opportunities for Sustainable Investment and Financing in Tourism: The SIFT Network

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  1. Opportunities for Sustainable Investment and Financing in Tourism: The SIFT Network Erica Allis United Nations Environment Programme Eleventh Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development May 9th-13th St. Michael, Barbados

  2. How investment is often done So they build this People want this

  3. Two Faces of Tourism

  4. Sustainability and investment

  5. Tourism is a key sector forthe shift to a Green Economy

  6. Why most tourism investment is not sustainable The Sustainable Investment and Finance in Tourism (SIFT) Network is intended to resolve these problems

  7. Investment and finance challenges on sustainability

  8. The Sustainable Investment and Finance in Tourism (SIFT) Network

  9. Sustainable Investment and Finance in Tourism (SIFT) Network

  10. What is SIFT? A network to enable investors, financiers, and destinations to share knowledge and encourage investments in tourism development that is financially, environmentally, and socially sustainable.

  11. Facilitate sustainable investments What will SIFT do? Tools to mainstream Sustainability Disseminate information

  12. SIFT Stakeholders

  13. SIFT Stakeholders

  14. SIFT Network Planned three steps:

  15. Roadmap for SIFT

  16. SIFT and the Global Sustainable Tourism Partnership Tourism Sustainability Council (TSC) Criteria and standards Private sector buy-in Sustainable Investment and Finance in Tourism (SIFT) Network Global Partnership for Sustainable Tourism United Nations agencies and programs $$ Projects Specialized knowledge Policies Projects Products Informed consumers Local knowledge Regional Networks

  17. First tools for SIFT

  18. UNEP-WWF investment tool

  19. UNEP-WWF investment tool

  20. UNEP-WWF investmenttool

  21. UNEP-WWF investmenttool

  22. UNEP-WWF Investment tool Final stages of development Looking for countries/destinations to pilot the model

  23. Thank you! • Erica Allis • erica.allis@unep.org

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