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PERSPECTIVES
IF NOT US, WHO?
IF NOT NOW,
WHEN?
These are the questions with which we opened the 1st MAPS Forum - Tourism, Events and Sustainability. Simple and direct, these were the questions that moved us towards the creation and realization of this FORUM that brought together 31 specialists, researchers, representatives of ancestral peoples, institutions and national and international associations.
In completing this event and in the position we occupy today as organizers and economic agents active in the three sectors that give the Forum its name, we are responsible to give answers that, we hope, will only be the first and lead, in fact, to concrete actions for change planning parameters and update practices and goals for these segments, aligning them with the Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the UN and increasingly impacting the lives of people and the planet.
YES, US! That is our answer to the first question. And MAPS Forum is the result of that response.
Sérgio Bresserman | Economy and Ecology
Mariana Gross | CEBDS
Carla Mott Ancona | MAPS
Sidney Alonso | Avant Garde
Benoit Sauvage | Connect Punta Cana
Michael Gill | IATA
Niclas Svenningsen | Global Climate Action
Sidney Alonso | Avant Garde
Fernando Souza | Cataratas Group
Ana Baez | Turismo & Conservação Costa Rica
Oliver Hillel | ON Secretary of Biological Diversity
Alexandre Garrido | Certification and Sustainable Tourism
Carol Urt | Strategic Management, Sustainability and Tourism
Katarina Tortensson | Gothenburg Sustainability Strategist
Beatriz Goes e Maria Alcântara | Tucum Network
Léa Gejer | Ideia Circular and Flock
Eduardo Sanovicz | ABEAR
Toni Sando | UNEDESTINOS
Roberta Nonis | Evento Único
Ricardo Ferreira | Counsels
Marcelo Salazar | Instituto Socioambiental
Kôkôte Xikrin | Beneficiamento de coco babaçu
Krôire Xikrin | Associação Bebô Xikrin
Mariana Madureira e Jussara Rocha | Raízes Desenvolvimento Sustentável
Polyana de Oliveira | Bagagem Project
Solange Barbosa | Rota da Liberdade
Ana Duék | Viajar Verde
Bill Reed | Regenesis e IDC. Bio
Bento Cruz | Mosaico and Aratu Project
NOW! This is our answer to the second question.
MAPS Forum was just the first and the most immediate step we took. During the event, we were able to bring together and connect Tourism, Events and Sustainability sectors to a common objective. We went looking for people, important personalities, important representatives at all levels and we made bridges between them, we opened the dialogue and the exchange of ideas and experiences. We have planted some seeds that we want to grow.
And finally, we want to ask the question that must necessarily follow the first two:
IF NOT LIKE THIS, HOW?
MAPS Forum 2020 participants, whether as representatives of companies, organizations, communities or as individuals, shared several ongoing projects with the audience, which are the real proof that a new way of thinking and working with resources is totally feasible. In fact, much more than doable, it is necessary. And it still shows itself as the only access to a reality that has been knocking on our door.
Tourism, Events and Sustainability need to be managed as a tripod, capable of sustaining demand and supply on a firm and stable basis for the whole of society
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