The Competence Centre for Sustainability (KONA) of the Swiss Tourism Federation is pleased to invite you to the Sustainable Tourism Days. The focus will be on active knowledge exchange and networking around tourism sustainability. The Sustainable Tourism Days 2025 are specifically aimed at professionals active in the fields of tourism and sustainable development. The aim is to network stakeholders from inbound tourism, outbound tourism and international cooperation as well as sustainability experts.
During the first edition of the Sustainable Tourism Days, the focus was on cooperation in the field of tourism (“Together for sustainable tourism”), this year, with “Creating the paths to sustainability”, the focus is clearly on the concrete implementation of measures and projects in order to jointly advance the sustainable development of tourism. There are many starting points and many possibilities for making the tourism sector more sustainable and inclusive – this is what this year’s theme wants to illustrate.
The Sustainable Tourism Days are designed as a two-day event at the BERNEXPO site in Bern. Day tickets are available in limited numbers in case participation on both days is not possible. A varied programme will be offered with two keynotes, two round tables, several workshops and information sessions, during which participants will be able to explore current topics of ecological, social and economic sustainability in the most interactive way possible. Examples of good practice from Switzerland and abroad will show how sustainability in tourism can be implemented in practice. In addition to the plenary sessions, all participants can put together their own individual programme based on the information sessions and workshops offered.
Main topics
The Sustainable Tourism Days will focus on a holistic approach to sustainability from the perspectives of inbound tourism, outbound tourism and international cooperation. Current projects in the field of social, ecological and economic sustainability will be discussed in collaboration with partners in workshops, information sessions and round tables. Implementation examples and experience reports from tourism in Switzerland and abroad will also be shared.
The following topics will be covered at the Sustainable Tourism Days (continuously supplemented):
- Sustainable destination development: perspectives from Austria Tourism
- Examples of good practices of concretely experienced sustainability (Switzerland and abroad)
- Food Save Management in the catering and hotel industry
- OK:GO initiative: accessibility in Swiss tourism
- Sustainability monitoring as a key to change
- Grisons far-sighted – moving from talk to action (Implementation of a sustainable strategy following the example of Grisons Tourism as a cantonal tourism organisation)
- Sustainable mobility: developing the offer with SBB and PostBus
- Sustainability reports: basics, practical examples and recommendations for action
- On the way to net zero: developing and implementing individual climate protection strategies
- Swisstainable: global communication on sustainable development in practice
- (Non-exhaustive list, the detailed programme will follow in September 2024. Subject to changes to the programme.)
Venue: BERNEXPO
