Effectively Telling your Sustainability Story

Effectively Telling your Sustainability Story

Effectively telling your sustainability story can be challenging. Sharing your progress, encouraging responsible travel behaviors, and avoiding accusations of greenwashing are difficult things to do. Fortunately, there are great resources available to help guide you through this communication minefield.

Earthcheck’s guide, Sustainability Storytelling for tourism and hospitality destinations: How to tell your story without greenwashing, provides a clear roadmap for better sustainability communications. The guide walks DMO managers and tourism professionals through key elements of a communication strategy, including determining your audience, articulating your goals and ambitions, curating your messages, and how to amplifying your story.

Check out Earthcheck’s Communication Guides:

Sustainable Storytelling for Destination 

Storytelling de Sustentabilidades para Destinos Turísticos

Jonathon Day
gjday@purdue.edu

Dr. Jonathon Day, an Associate Professor at Purdue's School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, has over 20 years of experience in destination management. His research focuses on sustainable tourism and responsible travel, emphasizing corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship.