{"id":179,"date":"2022-02-07T10:55:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T09:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/observatori.barcelonaturisme.com\/sustainability-barcelona-tourism-observatory-within-framework-tourism-sustainability\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T15:17:09","slug":"sustainability-barcelona-tourism-observatory-within-framework-tourism-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/observatoriturisme.barcelona\/en\/sustainability-barcelona-tourism-observatory-within-framework-tourism-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability – The Barcelona Tourism Observatory within the framework of tourism sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Barcelona Tourism Observatory within the framework of tourism sustainability<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/h1>

In the new social, economic and environmental paradigm<\/strong>, sustainability has become the backbone of everyday life<\/strong>, so that it has become relevant<\/strong> in governmental and business actions<\/strong>, in which tourism activity has not been and it is not foreign to. Within the framework of the goals established by the 2030 Agenda<\/strong> at a global level, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)<\/a> <\/strong>have been introduced transversally <\/strong>in tourism sustainability policies and analysis systems<\/strong>.<\/p>

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Systems to analyse\u00a0tourism sustainability<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

The World Tourism Organization <\/strong>(UNWTO), with the aim of progressing towards sustainable tourism<\/strong>, published in 2004 the guide Indicators of Sustainable Development for Tourism Destinations: A Guidebook<\/strong>\u00a0(OMT, 2004)<\/a>.\u00a0This guidebook aims to provide destinations with tools for developing indicator systems<\/strong>, which must inevitably incorporate social, environmental and economic aspects. Besides, the World Tourism Organisation\u00a0International Network of Sustainable Tourism Observatories (INSTO)<\/a><\/strong> has published, in 2022, a repository of tools and resources<\/strong><\/a> with the aim of guiding the indicators design and sources<\/strong> for the 11 isues<\/strong> considered as\u00a0essential <\/strong>in order to monitor\u00a0tourism sustainability.<\/p>

Meanwhile, Destination Barcelona has been developing various systems of tourism sustainability indicators <\/strong>(SIT-DIBA<\/a>\u00a0and SIT-BCN) since 2013. It has also participated in other indicator systems that monitor the sustainability of many destinations<\/strong> (ETIS<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0GDS Index<\/a>).<\/p>

In order to measure the reconciliation of citizens’ lives with the tourism\u00a0activity<\/strong>, Destinaci\u00f3 Barcelona also takes into account the perception of visitors and residents<\/strong>. For this reason, the Barcelona Tourism Observatory<\/strong> carries out an annual Survey of Tourist Profile and Habits in Destination Barcelona<\/strong><\/a>, which collects the visitors’ opinions<\/strong> on different aspects of the destination, while the Barcelona Regional Council<\/a> and the Barcelona City Council<\/a> study the\u00a0residents’ perspective<\/strong> on the externalities of the tourism\u00a0activity<\/strong> in the territory.<\/p>

With these premises, taking into account SDG12b “to develop and to apply instruments to monitor the effects of sustainable development, with the aim of achieving sustainable tourism that generates jobs and promotes culture and local products<\/em>” (Government of Spain, 2022<\/a>), the OTB <\/strong>established as a strategic line of action the creation of an indicators system to measure the sustainability of tourism activity in Destination Barcelona<\/strong>.\u00a0The creation of this system, which has been named the OTB\u00a0Sustainable Tourism Indicators System <\/strong>(SITS – OTB), has been carried out after studying and analysing the state of play\u00a0<\/strong>of the previous use of indicators in sustainable tourism<\/strong> in Destination Barcelona\u00a0and it has allowed the observatory\u00a0to be part of the network of INSTO observatories<\/a>.<\/p>

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