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Dunira Strategy sustainable development and enviornmental management in tourism

Dunira Strategy is an independent marketing, PR and training consultancy with a focus on the sustainable development and environmental management of tourism. We deliver sustainable business solutions and have considerable international experience. Dunira's expertise lies in facilitating enduring partnerships between stakeholders and we have particular experience building local capacity for sustainable development through tourism. Our key strengths lie in developing and applying practical tools that promote sustainability in travel and tourism. To this end, our team of sustainable tourism consultants works with clients and partners in the public and private sectors and civil society in the UK and internationally.

Current activities include a number of strategic tourism plans, the design of a cultural heritage and arts centre, establishment of destination management organisations for rural tourism, and development of professional training courses on ecotourism. Other projects involve revenue management, international marketing, corporate social responsibility, consumer market research and applying a methodology to promote participation by local communities in tourism management, as well as product development plans in the British Isles, Central and Eastern Europe, South and Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Principal Services

Strategic analysis
Tour operator consultancy
Tourism development
Training and implementation
Protected areas management

Academic and market research

Destination marketing and PR

Feasibility studies and options appraisals

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UNESCO has appointed Dunira to deliver training on World Heritage Site branding and management, and governance of local sustainable development in Durmitor, Montenegro.

Ya’axche Conservation Trust in Belize, supported by Flora & Fauna International, has commissioned Dunira to conduct a market survey and options appraisal for sustainable tourism development.

Dunira's Corinne Doff has been accredited by Sustainable Travel International as an Assessor and Consultant for the Sustainable Tourism Eco-certification Program™ (STEP)

Partnerships between Dunira and leading NGOs in destinations emerging from conflict is showcased by NIDOS

Dunira's Benjamin Carey is chairing a tourism technology session for UNESCO during the world heritage conference I Know Where I’m Going

Following Dunira's ‘Travel and Tourism’ chapter in the The New Iraq: 2011 Discovering Business, UKTI has commissioned Dunira to update the chapter for the 2012 edition (produced by Allurentis)

Ceòlas has appointed Dunira (in association with Ben Tindall) to determine the feasibility of a Gaelic arts centre on South Uist.

Dunira is advising on development options for the Dwarsberg Heritage Trail in South Africa.

Dunira and its European partners have won a contract to calculate the economic benefits of nature based tourism supported by Natura 2000 sites across the EU.

Comrie Development Trust has commissioned Dunira to investigate the feasibility of ‘green tourism’ at Cultybraggan in Perthshire.

Dunira’s work in destinations emerging from conflict is featured in The Scotsman and Tourism.

In India, Dunira is working with Queen Margaret University and Yes Bank, building on its earlier work with ICA, to establish a network of co-operative DMOs.

UNESCO Scotland has awarded a grant to Dunira to investigate the scope of ecotourism to contribute to sustainable development and conflict resolution in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province.

Dunira has been commissioned to deliver a marketing and promotions campaign for Slovenia in the run-up to the 2010 World Cup

Scottish Enterprise appoints Dunira to establish a DMO for Highland Perthshire.

The Tourism Board of Iraq explores new markets with Dunira during World Travel Market (The Times).

Appointed by SNV Bhutan, Dunira has delivered a capacity building programme on responsible business management for 40 members of the Association of Bhutanese Tour Operators.

The Yemen Tourism Promotion Board has re-appointed Dunira as Yemen's PR representative in the UK and Ireland and will be organising a European roadshow later this year (Yemen Times).

Contributions by Dunira’s Benjamin Carey and Christopher Imbsen have been published in the latest edition of The Ethical Travel Guide from Tourism Concern.

Following Dunira's work last year on Sierra Leone's Tourism Master Plan, the World Bank has commissioned a consortium comprising Dunira, Dexis and BEST to devise social and environmental safeguards for the sustainable development of tourism.

Dunira has been appointed by Pakistan's Ministry of Environment to conduct a review of its protected areas and of the country's capacity to deliver ecotourism.

At London's Palestine Investment Forum led by Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Salam Fayyad in 2008, Dunira's Benjamin Carey gave a presentation on the role of tourism in post-conflict destinations. UKTI has subsequently commissioned him to investigate tourism development opportunities in the West Bank.

Appointed by National Geographic Traveler as an ecotourism expert, Dunira’s MD was part of the international panel that selected the Faroe Islands as the “least spoilt island destination in the world”.  He was subsequently invited to advise Faroese tourism managers on development opportunities and was the keynote speaker at the FlyFaroe conference in 2007.

Also Chairman of Tourism Society Scotland, Dunira's managing director Benjamin Carey has been re-elected Vice Chair of the Tourism Society for a third consecutive term.

 

 

 

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