Saturday, November 9, 2024 The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) participated in the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16), held in Cali, Colombia, from October 21 to November 1, 2024. GSTC’s Program Director for Latin America, Jorge Moller, and Membership Coordinator, Tatiana Agudelo Monguí, collaborated with the global community to highlight sustainable tourism’s crucial role in biodiversity conservation. On October 26, Mr.
Moller and Ms. Agudelo Monguí, together with Destinos del Futuro and the Yuluca Alliance (AYLAC), introduced the initiative “Yuluca: Latin America and the Caribbean Agreement for the Conservation of Biodiversity through Sustainable and Regenerative Tourism.” Launched following the first GSTC Latin American and Caribbean Summit in Santa Marta in May 2024, this presentation reviewed AYLAC’s inaugural year of progress.
It underscored the initiative’s alignment with the Kunming-Montréal framework and its ambition to engage stakeholders across Latin America and the Caribbean in promoting biodiversity-focused tourism. Viewers could watch this presentation live on GSTC’s Facebook and YouTube channels. “AYLAC, with the support of Destinos del Futuro, has become an invaluable platform uniting tourism stakeholders across Latin America and the Caribbean and it was essential to be presented at this important COP, showing that this alliance creates a unique opportunity for the region to ali.
