Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance (GSTA)
The Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance (GSTA) is a single award, five-year Leader with Associates (LWA) cooperative agreement funded by USAID. Its purpose is twofold: to advance the state-of-the-practice in sustainable tourism development and allied fields; and to assist USAID Missions and other operating units to design and implement innovative, integrated, and market-based tourism approaches that will foster sustainable futures for individuals, local communities, and societies in USAID-presence countries.
 |
USAID’s Global Sustainable Tourism
Alliance is a new Leader with Associates
mechanism promoting partnerships among
international tourism organizations to
support tourism education, planning,
development, and implementation
worldwide. |
GSTA Support for USAID Development:
- Upgrade local/indigenous SMME-level capabilities (e.g., improve products, processes, and capacity, and capture market segments);
- Improve sector support and markets (e.g., financial, cross-cutting);
- Improve cooperation and linkages along the value chain to stimulate growth, create economies of scale, increase bargaining power, and generate investment;
- Foster development of an enabling environment by addressing the policy framework and working with global, regional, national platforms, fora, mechanisms, and governing bodies;
- Improve destination market opportunities and growth through cluster development that increases efficiencies of SMMEs, services, product delivery, and offerings to meet changing demands;
- Conserve biodiversity through a threats-based approach, increasing capacity of protected area management and visitor services;
- Maximize tourism’s contribution to conserving cultural heritage and minimize negative sociocultural impacts through community-based approaches; and
- Promote sustainable tourism development standards.
Back to Top ^
|
