SUSTENTURIS
Sustainability and authenticity in the tourism offer
Description

This project aims to guarantee the environmental, economic, and social sustainability of the territories and the value chains that support tourism products, through the development of the sustainability of companies involved in tourism.

The project has sustainability management tools aimed at certification, marketing, and monitoring the sustainability of tourism products: i-SUSTENTURIS, e-SUSTENTURIS, and Itinerant SUSTENTURIS Workshops.

I-SUSTENTURIS is a certification system composed of a set of sustainability indicators (environmental, social, and destination), which will serve to measure and accredit the sustainability of tourism products, even those produced by micro and small companies, usually without the possibility of access to this resource.

E-SUSTENTURIS is a collaborative B2B (business to business) marketing platform, which aims to give visibility to sustainable tourism products developed locally, so that they can be integrated into more comprehensive offers resulting from cooperation between the various players in the tourism industry, including agents and global tour operators with an impact on intermediation with consumers and international markets.

Itinerant SUSTENTURIS Workshops enable the transmission of knowledge about internal management practices responsible for the development of corporate sustainability to improve the sustainability of tourism products, taking into account the results in the i-SUSTENTURIS indicators. In particular, they will promote the introduction of sustainability into company policies, through the development of action plan plans for sustainability, the correction of product performance based on indicators, and the adaptation of local companies' products to tourism.

The SUSTENTURIS project is innovative at several levels: in its focus on the sustainability of tourism products; in the evaluation of sustainability indicators calculated with a life cycle approach, in a transparent and traceable way, not only being a label, but also a management, education and marketing tool; and actively promoting partnerships between participants on the platform, to build a more sustainable tourist offer.

Internal Partners
Research Centre Research Group Role in Project Begin Date End Date
ISTAR-Iscte Software Systems Engineering Partner 2017-01-01 2018-12-31
External Partners
Institution Country Role in Project Begin Date End Date
Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril (ESHTE) Portugal Partner 2017-01-01 2018-12-31
Spatial Planning and Environment Study Group (GEOTA) Portugal Partner 2017-01-01 2018-12-31
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL ) Portugal Partner 2017-01-01 2018-12-31
ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences (ISPA) Portugal Partner 2017-01-01 2018-12-31
52 / 5000 Resultados de tradução Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests (ICNF) Portugal Partner 2017-01-01 2018-12-31
Project Team
Name Affiliation Role in Project Begin Date End Date
Fernando Brito e Abreu Professor Associado (DCTI); Integrated Researcher (ISTAR-Iscte); Global Coordinator 2017-01-01 2018-12-31
José Américo Alves Sustelo Rio Associate Researcher (ISTAR-Iscte); Researcher 2017-01-01 2018-12-31
José Pereira dos Reis Professor Auxiliar (DCTI); Associate Researcher (ISTAR-Iscte); Researcher 2017-01-01 2018-12-31
Project Fundings
Reference/Code Funding DOI Funding Type Funding Program Funding Amount (Global) Funding Amount (Local) Begin Date End Date
Sustenturis -- Contract Ministério do Ambiente (Portuguese Ministry of Environment) - Environmental Fund - Portugal 21620 19500 2017-01-01 2018-12-31
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Project Files
File Type Description File Size
Support Documentation Memoria Descritiva SUSTENTURIS 2018_GEOTA.pdf 733 KB

With the objective to increase the research activity directed towards the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the possibility of associating scientific projects with the Sustainable Development Goals is now available in Ciência_Iscte. These are the Sustainable Development Goals identified for this project. For more detailed information on the Sustainable Development Goals, click here.

Sustainability and authenticity in the tourism offer
2017-01-01
2018-12-31