The Sustainable Destinations Forum (SDF) 2025 provided opportunities to meet in person old and new friends of the Meaningful Tourism movement, some following MTC for a long time and eager to establish closer relations, some saying “I will add Meaningful Tourism to my vocabulary when talking about sustainable tourism”.
MTC looks forward as a result to be present more than before in places like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Lebanon, Jordan, and others.
The SDF 2025 also brought together no less than five members of the Meaningful Tourism community. Being spread around the world, most contacts are just via Zoom and other platforms. Therefore, it was a very special treat, supported by our friends from Green Destinations, who kindly waived the participation fees, to meet in person.
PROF M, together with our Oman trainer, Dr. Ali Akaak, played an active role in the panels and workshops; however, our other trainers also actively participated in the discussions during the two-day event.
At the end, there was a nice dinner with Lebanese food in a restaurant inside the Mall of the Emirates, one of the many bigger-than-life places in this strange city of Dubai.
Certified Trainers from Oman (Dr. Ali Akaak), Sri Lanka (Chinthana Duminduhewa), Turkiye (Dr. Nurgül Boz), and Zanzibar (Biubwa Omar), plus PROF M, shared not only the food but also experiences and insights from different parts of the world.
