What does the MIF Sustainable Tourism Cluster (STC) finance?
MIF’s STC will select and co-finance 20 projects from institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean proposed through the Geotourism Challenge 2009. Projects must be in the identification and/or design phase and be highly innovative, generate social impact, and improve the competitiveness and sustainability of tourism in the region. MIF’s STC will co-finance projects that: • Develop and promote innovative market strategies for sustainable tourism products and services, presented by SMEs and community businesses. • Contribute to the development and use of geographical tools that can be applied to the sustainable management of tourist destinations. • Contribute to the development and application of financial tools and strategies accessible to SMEs and community businesses. • Generate new organizational models for business networks in sustainable tourism. • Incorporate, or are based on, information technology and virtual communities that promote access to sustainable tourism market deman
