Stepping Up to
Sustainability
3rd Minnesota Conference on Sustainable Tourism
April 15, 2008
The DECC, Duluth, Minnesota
Conference Mission:
This conference will provide tourism businesses
and communities with practical, applied tools to help guide implementation
of sustainable tourism practices.
Goals:
- Build Minnesota capacity to implement sustainable tourism practices
- Enhance knowledge about sustainable tourism practices
- Share best practices & practical applications
- Provide access to information & research to
implement sustainable tourism
Photo
© Explore Minnesota Tourism
Agenda
8:30 – 9:00 Check-in &
Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome
& Opening
• The Honorable Don Ness, Mayor of Duluth
Start: 0:25 (indicates
presentation start/stop times on linked audio file)
Stop: 4:35
• Ingrid Schneider Ph.D., Director , University of Minnesota Tourism
Center
Start: 4:40 (indicates
presentation start/stop times on linked audio file)
Stop: 10:10
9:30 – 10:30 Keynote
Presentation: Joel Makower
Start: 10:11 (indicates
presentation start/stop times on linked audio file)
Stop: 59:55
Joel is a well-respected national voice on business, the environment,
and the bottom line. He’s author or co-author of more than a dozen
books, including Beyond the Bottom Line: Putting Social Responsibility
to Work for Your Business and the World, about the profit and potential
of socially responsible business practices; The E-Factor: The Bottom-Line
Approach to Environmentally Responsible Business, on how companies are
responding to environmental challenges, and The Green Consumer, a best-selling
guide to the environmental marketplace.
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:00 Concurrent Breakout Sessions
A. Sustainable Destinations
Sustainable tourism benefits communities in a variety of ways. Hear
examples of Minnesota and Wisconsin communities successfully using sustainable
practices that highlight their local natural and cultural resources
and provide economic, social, and environmental benefits.
• Tourism
Resource Teams: Community Benefits and Outcomes, Okechukwu
Ukaga, Ph.D. Northeast MN Sustainable Development partnership and
Mary Somnis, IRR
• Handmade
and Homegrown: Northwest Wisconsin’s Heritage Passage,
JoAnn Martin
• Duluth
– stepping up to sustainability, Anna Schnell-Tanski,
Visit Duluth, and Cliff Tanner, Manager Office of Sustainability for
Duluth
B. Simply Good Business
Tourism businesses of all types and sizes are successfully implementing
sustainable practices that benefit their bottom-line. Hear from business
operators as they share their award-winning best practice examples and
provide concrete strategies that any business can implement.
• Doing
Well By Doing Good: Commitment to Sustainable Operations Pinehurst
Inn, Bayfield,
Nancy and Steve Sandstrom
• Duluth
Entertainment Convention Center (DECC), Sue Ellen Moore and
Chelly Townsend
• Stepping
Up to Sustainability: Northern Lights Resort Outfitting & Youth
Quest,
Tom Ossell
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Learning Stations
These 20 minute practical sessions are designed to give you the know-how
to take action. Learning stations represent a variety of sustainable practices.
Participants select stations and will move through several to gain takeaway
ideas and concrete steps to implement them. Presentations include demonstrations
and applied information such as:
• How
DO I get started? – Nikki Anderson, The Inn on Lake Superior
• Creating a Green Roof
– Corrie Zoll, Minnesota Green Roof Council
• Solar:
An Effective Alternative – Jamie Juennemann, Silver Creek
Institute
• Ten
Steps for Waste Reduction – Mark Blaiser, Minnesota Waste
Wise
• Vermi-Composting
(yes worms!) – Ellen Sandbeck
• Greening Your Community Event – Kent Gustafson
• Maintaining Sustainability:
Stopping Aquatic Hitchhikers - Doug Jensen, Minnesota Sea Grant
• Behind the scenes tour of the DECC
• Trends Driving
the Market to Change – Tim Nolan, MPCA
• Conservation
for Business – Tim Gallagher, Minnesota Power
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45 – 3:45 Sustainable Tourism in Minnesota
• What is Travel Green in Minnesota?
- John Edman, Director, Explore Minnesota Tourism
• State
of Sustainable Tourism Survey 2008
- Ingrid Schneider, Ph.D., Director, University of
Minnesota Tourism Center
3:45-4:00 Closing
Resource Fair Exhibitors Include:
• Regional
Partnerships | Northeast
• Regional
Partnerships | Central
• Minnesota
Waste Wise
• Explore Minnesota
Tourism: Travel Information on Minnesota
• Minnesota Pollution Control
Agency
• Tourism Center, University
of Minnesota
• Green Mercantile - Environmentally
safe and earth friendly products
• Silver Creek Institute
• Thousand Hills
Cattle Company Grass Fed Beef
• University of Minnesota
- Extension
• Minnesota Institute of Sustainable
Agriculture - MISA
• Minnesota Power
• LaVerme's Worms
• Minnesota Green Roofs Council
• CERTs - Alternative
Energy Resources
• Minnesota Sea Grant
• UMD
| Office of Civic Engagement
Registration
Scholarship Information
The Initiative Foundation has provided a
grant for scholarships to cover the $95
conference registration fee. These
scholarships are available on a
first-come basis to individuals within the
Initiative Foundation service area identified
on the map.
Individuals are responsible for any additional
costs such as transportation or lodging.
For additional information contact:
Andrea Schuweiler, Conference Coordinator
Schu1211@umn.edu
(612) 624-4253
Visit Duluth
Come to Duluth for the conference . . . Stay for the weekend.
Things to Do in Duluth:
Accommodations
• The Inn on Lake
Superior www.theinnonlakesuperior.com
- A conference rate of $79 plus tax (single or double occupancy)
has been reserved at the Inn. Call (888) 668-4352 and request
the Sustainable Tourism conference rate.
- Located in the historical Canal Park just 3 blocks from downtown Duluth
and 2 blocks from the DECC. A deluxe complimentary breakfast is included.
Parking is complimentary for hotel guests.
• Other Accommodations
Sponsors
We greatly appreciate our sponsors who help make this conference possible.
For information on each organization, please visit their website by clicking
on their name below.
Venue Information
• Duluth, Minnesota
• DECC (Duluth Entertainment Convention
Center)
Why Sustainable Tourism?
Sustainable tourism development meets the needs
of present tourists and host regions while protecting and enhancing opportunities
for the future. It is envisaged as leading to management of all resources
in such a way that economic, social, and aesthetic needs can be fulfilled
while maintaining cultural integrity, essential ecological processes,
biological diversity, and life support systems. –World Tourism
Organization
Benefits to Industry
• Minnesota, like most destinations, is dependent on its natural
and human resources for tourism. Sustainable tourism values, preserves
and protects the natural and human resources while providing economic
opportunity for our communities and businesses. Sustainable tourism guidelines
and management practices are applicable to all types and sizes of tourism.
Every community and business can implement strategies for sustainability.
• See http://www.tourism.umn.edu/research/sustainabletourism/index.html
for more tourism resources
View the 2006 Conference website and 2007
Conference website
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