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The Global Destination Sustainability Index awards for 2017 placed Glasgow up three places in the index and with a 16% increase in its overall score since last year. These awards are based on the attractiveness of the city in terms of its sustainable business tourism. The GDS-index methodology: ‘measures and compares the social and environmental sustainability strategies, policies and performance of the participating destinations.’
Placing on the index depends on performance measured by these four criteria:
- A key element of the GDS-Index is to determine a destination’s environmental performance. We do this by examining aspects like a destinations air quality, their use of renewable energy sources and the performance of their public transport and waste disposal infrastructure.
- In a holistic approach to sustainability, the GDS-Index factors in the social performance of a destination, including elements such as the city’s United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) score and ranking in global corruption indices.
- For an events industry specific analysis, the GDS-Index evaluates the sustainable practices of industry suppliers such as hotels, caterers and venues.
- The role Convention Bureaux play in the sustainability performance of their destination is central to GDS-Index benchmarking. Convention Bureau performance is based on their sustainability strategy and reporting, the client support offered and their role in promoting sustainability in the industry.
In addition to its overall improvement, Glasgow won two first place awards:
- Category leader: Most improved award
- Category leader: Convention bureau performance
Evidence of the city’s development can also be seen in the fact that, in 2016/17, in a best-ever performance, Glasgow won more than 500 new international and UK conferences worth a total of £142m.
Dear green place? Well not too dear, we hope.
Footnote: I’ve been round and round the website but I can’t find an league table of global cities to find Glasgow’s actual position on it.
Talking-up Scotland 
Taken from GDS Index just now .
59%SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE
50%CONVENTION BUREAU PERFORMANCE
GDS-Index Destination Rankings
GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN1
OSLO, NORWAY2
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK3
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND3
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND4
STUTTGART, GERMANY5
HELSINKI, FINLAND6
UPPSALA, SWEDEN7
ZüRICH, SWITZERLAND8
MALMö, SWEDEN9
VäSTERåS, SWEDEN10
JöNKöPING, SWEDEN11
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN11
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA12
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM13
ESPOO, FINLAND14
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA15
TAMPERE, FINLAND15
BARCELONA, SPAIN16
KARLSTAD, SWEDEN17
SAPPORO, JAPAN18
KYOTO, JAPAN19
NANTES, FRANCE19
FRANKFURT (2016), GERMANY20
AALBORG, DENMARK21
AARHUS, DENMARK21
BERGEN, NORWAY22
ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS22
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND23
TROLLHäTTAN, SWEDEN23
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS24
HOUSTON, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA25
TURKU, FINLAND26
DUBLIN, IRELAND27
CAPE TOWN (2016), SOUTH AFRICA28
GOYANG, SOUTH KOREA28
DURBAN KWAZULU-NATAL (2016), SOUTH AFRICA29
CITY OF TSHWANE (PRETORIA 2016), SOUTH AFRICA30
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Thanks. 4th out of 50!
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Wonderful , up there with the best !
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O/T Apologies. . . .
On Radio Shortbread, Irish Journalist, ” the Irish Government are being very careful to ensure that whatever agreement is arrived at between Ireland and the UK can’t be seen as a precedent for an Independent Scotland’s border with RUK” . . . . . So why can’t this border arrangement deal be seen as a precedent for Scotland. . . . For no reason other than They are going to say it can’t.
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Ireland are frightened to rock the boat for themselves , they don’t want to be seen supporting Scotland having a different deal than the rest of the UK on Brexit .
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Exactly John.
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Any deal cannot be hidden from our thoughts
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Within minutes of being elected
Leonard may suspend Dugdale
https://stv.tv/news/politics/1402512-leonard-dugdale-may-be-suspended-in-next-few-
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