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Turismo de Portugal signs the Charter of Commitment to Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainability

22.10.2020

​​​Turismo de Portugal, NEST - Tourism Innovation Centre Portugal and Planetiers New Generation have signed a Charter of Commitment, in pursuit of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), for the next decade. This protocol aims to develop a multidisciplinary programme with initiatives, which, focused on tourism, project Portugal to the forefront of innovation and sustainability, placing Portugal as an international reference for Knowledge, Innovation and Sustainable Entrepreneurship. 

The signatories thus assume to be an active part of a national strategy that fosters a disruptive programme of sustainable economic acceleration of the country, putting the tourism ecosystem at the forefront of the transformation to a new green and inclusive economy. 

The purpose of the commitment is very clear: to capture, mobilise and transform societies by creating an International Innovation and Sustainability Hub in Portugal and put in place a programme of transformation and disruptive investments in tourism.   

This Charter of Commitment to Sustainable Innovation pursues six key objectives: 

1. To establish in Portugal organisations that are world leaders in knowledge and exponential growth processes; 
2. To promote international co-creation by placing Tourism activities at the centre of an ecosystem of sustainable companies and territorial cohesion; 
3. To raise investment for sustainable and regenerative projects; 
4. To implement Future-Fit models and regenerative projects in the territories and companies linked to tourism activities; 
5. To develop national and international education and communication programmes; 
6. To communicate Portugal nationally and internationally as a sustainable and innovative destination for quality of life.


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  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
  • Turismo de Portugal
  • NEST
  • Planetiers
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