490 Companies Have Applied for the Barcelona Biosphere Commitment to Sustainable Tourism to Obtain the Certification

Turisme de Barcelona has currently 2 stamps to offer to the companies interested in emphasize good practices but also to have a differentiating attribute in comparison with other destinations.

Release time : 2021-03-08 11:26:43

source : Turisme de Barcelona

Turisme de Barcelona has currently 2 stamps to offer to the companies interested in emphasize good practices but also to have a differentiating attribute in comparison with other destinations: the Barcelona Biosphere Commitment to Sustainable Tourism Destination and the security stamp by the WTTC to establish the protocols for a safe travel. In Barcelona and surroundings, there are already 490 companies with the Biosphere Commitment stamp.

From 2020, the Turisme de Barcelona Consortium has been collaborating together with the Barcelona City Council, the Barcelona Provincial Council and the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce to develop this project concerning the tourism sustainability and the improvement of Destination Barcelona competitiveness which includes 12 regions of the Barcelona province.

According to the vice chairman of the Turisme de Barcelona Executive Committee and Tourism and Creative Industries Barcelona City Council councillor, Xavier Marcé, “it’s a very good symptom that the tourism management includes the tourism sustainability in Barcelona, this means that it has been a positive interpretation in the vein of to the opportunity to add value to the sustainability at the tourism industry, but also in the economic context affected by the Covid-19 pandemic”. Marce has emphasized the effort of the companies and has reminded that “the orientation that the tourists want to keep in this city is the sustainability path, as well as the involvement in the responsible management, environment-friendly, the working conditions, the gender equity and the culture”.

The Chairman of the Turisme de Barcelona Executive Committee, Eduard Torres, claims that “now, with this crisis, we have the opportunity to win the tourism story-telling and to come out in a stronger position if we follow the responsible tourism with added value. We will work for a quality tourism, but with the industry in a leading position and to reduce the