The aim of Fair Trade Tourism is to make tourism more sustainable by ensuring that the people who contribute their land, resources, labour and knowledge to tourism are the ones who reap the benefits.
FAIR TRADE TOURISM PRINCIPLES
Defining Fair Trade in TourismFair Trade in Tourism is a key aspect of sustainable tourism. It aims to maximize the benefits from tourism for local destination stakeholders through mutually beneficial and equitable partnerships between national and international tourism stakeholders in the destination. It also supports the right of indigenous host communities, whether involved in tourism or not, to participate as equal stakeholders and beneficiaries in the tourism development process.
Fair Trade partnerships between tourism and hospitality investors and local communities
- Equitable consultation and negotiation taking into account the interests of local community stakeholders, including tourism enterprises, and indigenous residents not involved in tourism
- Transparent and accountable business operations through environmental and social audits
- Employment of local residents (including indigenous people) to provide opportunities for developing their human potential.
- Training and development at local community level for managerial positions, if appropriate as part of a public, private and civil society partnership.
- Investors aware of and adhering to relevant regulations, whether derived from local, national, or international regulation, including a regulation that would apply in the tourists’ countries of origin, e.g. on Health and Safety and environmental controls.
- Anti-corrupt practices
Fair Trade between tourists and local people
- Informed and responsible tourists foster a mutually beneficial exchange with local people, respecting their culture
- Tourists pay a fair market price.
- Fair and sustainable use of natural resources
- Investment and research in environmental protection
- Implementation of measures which enhance the local environment
- Consultation with the local community
- Adherence to relevant national and international conventions, such as the
- Convention on Biological Diversity and regulations, including a regulation that would apply in the tourists’ countries of origin.
- People charge a fair market price
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