International Maldives Travel Market (IMTM) Private Limited has announced that the third edition of its annual Sustainable Tourism Forum (STF) 2022 will be held on December 3-4 at the Manhattan Business Hotel in Male’ City.
The IMTM Sustainable Tourism Forum is a platform connecting stakeholders from the Maldives tourism industry, encouraging them to engage in dialogue on issues pertaining to the social, economic, and environmental sustainability of the country’s tourism sector. The aim of the forum is to educate and inspire the industry as a whole to make the Maldives a sustainable tourist destination.
This year’s STF will explore the theme What is Sustainable Tourism? Interpretations and Discourses of Sustainable Tourism in the Maldives. Platforms such as the IMTM Sustainable Tourism Forum play a critical role, given the vulnerability of the Maldives to the adverse impacts of climate change and in consideration of the unprecedented growth of the Maldivian tourism sector.
The STF is designed as a platform to share experiences and knowledge on sustainable tourism practices geared towards innovation, climate change adaptation, and building resiliency of the industry and the Maldivian community. Its goal is to further stimulate understanding of the scientific elements influencing climate-resilient development while identifying avenues for investment and improved livelihood of the Maldivian people.
The STF 2022 further targets to expand its scope in not only creating a space for dialogue, but a means to design and create standards for sustainable tourism in the Maldives and produce knowledge-based products that would contribute to the global understanding of sustainability within the tourism sector. The forum will be conducted in five sessions spread across the two-day forum. Speakers will be selected from the registered participants who have expressed an interest in sharing a presentation on their company’s sustainability initiatives.