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Sustainable Development Goals Projects

The Perfect Partners for UN Sustainable Development

Sustainable development global goals

Few may know it, but the United Nations has a plan for us all to re-focus our lives around 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs).

The tourism industry is perfectly placed to bring the SDGs to life. Many of the most inspiring and exclusive destinations we visit are amongst the most vulnerable places and communities on the planet.

We have the chance to focus our guests’ attention on the SDGs, bring them to life through our own, destination specific, projects and make the kind of genuine, cross-cultural connections which are likely to become true tour highlights.

The chance is there to build a network of SDG centres which connect operators and hoteliers to their communities, and which connect to each other. This way, we can build financial and professional capacity to integrate projects, create best practice and to unite participating companies and organisations across the globe.

Whilst the collective drive to achieve net zero remains a vital component of our efforts (SDG 13 – Climate action), there are 16 other SDGs which require our focus. Many of them allow us to invest creatively in the specific needs of the communities which surround us and the projects we undertake can be hugely rewarding.

Many operators already have excellent projects which simply need pointing at the relevant SDGs. The key is to come together under the most powerful global organisation there is, spread our message rapidly, and make meaningful change along the way.

At A Tent With A View, we are placing SDG centres in each of our facilities across Tanzania. Each centre showcases the 17 UN SDGs, as do the staff uniforms, room art and other means of carrying messages relevant to individual SDGs. Each centre also focuses on a particular project undertaken by the hotel and shows which goals it addresses.

The Zanzibari Sustainability Champions

In rural Tanzania, including on the island of Unguja (Zanzibar), investment in social development is very limited. Teachers are poorly paid in government schools; they face enormous class sizes and few facilities.

Girls Sports Centre

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Girls Sports Academy

We asked a wide cross-section of Tanzanian nationals to name a single home female athlete and drew a complete blank. With no one to cheer for, there is no media coverage. 

Saadani Lion & Turtle Project

Saadani National Park is a microcosm of most of the issues relating to conservation around the world, both on land and in the sea. It is under pressure from charcoal burning, pastoralism and poaching of animals on land.