The World’s Top 10 Sustainable Destinations unveiled at ITB
The World’s Top 10 Sustainable Destinations have been unveiled at ITB Berlin, at the end of its Opening day, March 6. From 100 top-sustainable destinations, 44 finalists had first been selected by a Jury representing 12 international organisations.
The Jury has announced the Winners as follows:
ITB Earth Award – Republic of Palau
Best of Cities – Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Best of Communities & Culture – Gozo (Malta)
Best of Nature – Dutch QualityCoast Delta (Netherlands)
Best of Seaside – Torroella de Montgrí – L’Estartit (Spain)
Best of Ecotourism – Republic of Guyana
Best of Africa – Chumbe Island (Tanzania)
Best of Asia-Pacific – Bardia National Park (Nepal)
Best of the Americas – Galapagos National Park (Ecuador)
Best of Europe – Portugal
Key role of destinations finally recognised
Countries, local governments and protected areas have everything on the line to ensure tourism sustainability, but they were hardly visible in the larger tourism award schemes so far. This has changed now ITB Berlin hosts this annual Sustainable Top 100 Awards event.
For the complete list of Winners see:greendestinations.org/2019-top100-awards.
The event is organised by Green Destinations with the support of TravelMole’s Vision on Sustainable Tourism, BookDifferent.com and ten other Top 100 Organising partners.
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Organisational information
The Sustainable Destinations Top 100 Team at Green Destinations
Gregory Bankuzi is the co-founder and president of the Ruhengeri Community Eco-Tourism Association, a local association of people collaborating to enhance tourism development in Rwanda. Recently he was appointed by the African Tourism Board to be in their steering committee representing the interest of African members on the platform. He is behind the 
Since 2016, Mr. Cappelli is the Minister of Tourism of the Croatian Government and it has served as former Mayor of Mali Lošinj and President of the Tourist Board of Mali Lošinj. During his work at Mali Lošinj, he induced many activities regarding the destination management development at the island of Lošinj, Croatia as well as the Lošinj archipelago as a year-round destination. During his mandate, the Tourist Board in Mali Lošinj became an affiliate member of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and a full member of the UNWTO Knowledge Network.