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4 September 2025
2025 GDS-ICCA-CityDNA Certificate in Regenerative Destination Management, Online
Learn how to manage destinations through regenerative business models, destination stewardship approaches, and stakeholder engagement methodologies. We are all under pressure: visitor economies, their host communities, the earth, and the vulnerable. We need a new approach that considers how interconnected networks – social, environmental, and economic – can work together to restore, replenish, and sustain…
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What’s Going on in the Audiovisual World? Sustainability Reflections from Prolight + Sound 2025
From Global Destination Sustainability Movement, by Guy Bigwood: I am just back from participating at Prolight + Sound – one of the world’s most important entertainment tech shows all about audiovisuals (AV), sounds, lighting, and more. Organised by and at Messe Frankfurt, Mira Wölfel, the Director of Prolight + Sound, kindly invited me to deliver…
When Events Lead the Change: Four Powerful Examples of Sustainability in Action
From Global Destination Sustainability Movement: If business events’ profits were a country, they’d be in the top 15 in the world. The Events Industry Council notes that “the $1.62 trillion of total GDP supported by global business events would rank the sector as the 13th largest economy globally.” We’ve seen encouraging progress from this vital…
9 April 2025
Webinar | BUSINESS Events AS USUAL: Social Impact in Destinations
Social impact is no longer an add-on: it’s the new business-as-usual approach for leading destinations and convention bureaux. Join us for this insightful webinar to explore how event legacy, stakeholder collaboration, and impact measurement are transforming the way destinations approach sustainability. Through practical strategies and real-world case studies, we’ll break down the key elements of…
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8 April 2025
Webinar | BUSINESS Events AS USUAL: Social Impact in Destinations
Social impact is no longer an add-on: it’s the new business-as-usual approach for leading destinations and convention bureaux. Join us for this insightful webinar to explore how event legacy, stakeholder collaboration, and impact measurement are transforming the way destinations approach sustainability. Through practical strategies and real-world case studies, we’ll break down the key elements of…
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6 February 2025
Feeling the Pulse Webinar
Join our upcoming webinar, Mapping Change: Towards Data-Driven Tourism and Events that Regenerate. We’ll explore how fast-developing technologies and innovative data management are revolutionising the tourism and events industry. This session will provide actionable insights and showcase real-world case studies demonstrating the power of data to promote and develop sustainability practices towards regeneration.
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5 February 2025
Feeling the Pulse Webinar
Join our upcoming webinar, Mapping Change: Towards Data-Driven Tourism and Events that Regenerate. We’ll explore how fast-developing technologies and innovative data management are revolutionising the tourism and events industry. This session will provide actionable insights and showcase real-world case studies demonstrating the power of data to promote and develop sustainability practices towards regeneration.
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ASSOCIATIONS: Unlocking Social Impact Funding
Proponents of the social impact of events narrative convened in Bruges for IMPACT DAY hosted by The VISITFLANDERS Convention Bureau, #MEET4IMPACT, and the GDS-Movement to discuss how collaboration between social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and government can collaborate to drive positive change using association meetings as the catalyst. “We’re impact creators…”, explained Genevieve Leclerc, co-founder of…
GDS-Forum Pursues Solutions for ‘Broken’ Visitor Economy
Bruges, Belgium, hosted the second GDS-Forum / CityDNA Autumn Conference ‘Double-Bill’ to seek solutions, and to advance & celebrate the world’s leading destination sustainability movement. “I think the visitor economy is a bit broken – and that people, communities, and nature are suffering,” explained the GDS-Movement’s founder and chief changemaker, Guy Bigwood, adding that, “we…
6 March 2025
Certificate in Regenerative Destination Management
Learn how to manage destinations through regenerative business models, destination stewardship approaches, and stakeholder engagement methodologies. We are all under pressure: visitor economies, their host communities, the earth, and the vulnerable. We need a new approach to recover, flourish, and thrive. Join us on a journey to a new mindset as we: Discover regenerative business…
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Collaboration and Creativity Transform Destination Sustainability
From GDS-Movement: In mid-October, the historic city of Bruges hosted the second edition of the GDS-Forum & CityDNA Autumn Conference, organised by the Global Destination Sustainability Movement (GDS-Movement) and CityDNA (City Destinations Alliance) in collaboration with Visit Bruges. Held under the theme, “Let Pigs Fly,” the event took on the playful yet ambitious challenge to…
Impact Day + GDS Forum 2024: Imagining the Unconventional!
From HQ Magazine: ‘Disruption’, ‘holistic approach’, ‘retargeting’, ‘added-value’, each industry has its own buzzwords in order to navigate discourses and guide collective thought processes. Words are essential to instigate organised reactions, to sew in letters a manifesto, but if they are stripped of their real meaning and chewed on incessantly, they end up falling into…
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