Promote sustainable tourism in your city, and green tourism resources to tourism and hospitality businesses in/around the city.
Best Practice of this action
Rating Guideline
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Identify how area tourism is featuring cultural and green aspects/beautification of the area/their business, and/or how the city has contacted businesses (and how many) about making internal green changes within their business; promote on a city/chamber web page area businesses that have EV charging stations. |
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Create or participate in an ongoing green tourism initiative; facilitate follow-up with at least 5 businesses to assist them/arrange for assistance to them in greening their business. |
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Document the financial and environmental outcomes from these green tourism efforts on your city website. Report any green tourism business certifications earned in action 25.6. |
Resources
- The Green Hotels Association provides practical information and qualified vendors for helping lodging owners to green their operations.
- See tourism resources from Explore MN.
- Green Routes, a triple bottom line tourism initiative of St. Paul-based Renewing the Countryside.
- Astro-tourism is an easy way to increase tourism - it requires little more than an open space free from bright lights and can help promote your city as a tourist destination. Use the International Dark-Sky Association Education & Outreach guide to promote reduced/smarter outdoor lighting. See the GreenStep Dark Skies best practices for more.
- Home sharing — by renting a room, informally or via Airbnb, to a traveler or short-term tenant — can be a powerful and profitable option for aging in place. The definition of a short term rental varies by city since each chooses to regulate (or not) differently. Concerns include potential loss of affordable housing, safety and neighborhood quality-of-life issues. See Short Term Rental Zoning Study and Proposed Zoning Code Amendments (St. Paul: 2017) that summarizes the regulatory stances of Eagan, Burnsville, Duluth, and Prior Lake.
- See EV charging resources in BPA 23.5.
Order Number
3
Action Type
Finite