Organisations & networks

VMAST - UNESCOs Visitor Management Assessment & Strategy Tool

>> for improving the benefits of tourism through strategic visitor management

Responsible tourism development and visitor management is an essential part site and destination management. Locally as well as globally there are many organisations and networks involved and/or concerned with nWithin an increasingly VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world 'best practice' in visitor management is not a status. It is an aspiration and ongoing commitment to improve practice.

So how could organisations and networks come together or convene collaboration among their own members and across associated organisations and networks? 

VMAST is a generic framework applicable across all World Heritage sites and destinations hosting World Heritage. By placing the stewardship at the centre of concern it allows for collaboration across all its four goals and 40 strategic objectives. As a strategy development tool it helps bring diversity into shard purpose.

VMAST supports:

Monitoring  >  Improved understanding

Budgeted activities  >  Feasible ambitions

Communication  >  Improved outreach

Capacity development  >  Strengthened capacities

Collaboration  >  Increased impact

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WHETS - World Heritage Exchange Trading Systems

>> for improving provisioning through moneyless trade and exchange

Organisations and networks are generally operating within a relatively tight budgets. Procurement of goods and services may necessitate taking up an expensive loan. 

What could organisations and networks do make more efficient use of limited funds, and avoid taking up interest bearing credit?

WHETS is a portfolio of systems that can improve provisioning through moneyless trade and exchange. WHETS supports networks so that members in a network can, upon mutual credit, trade and exchange among other members in the network. Organisations and networks could either join an existing network or set up one for themselves. Through the Credit Commons Protocol it could be possible for members of different networks to trade across networks.

WHETS portfolio of systems that could be applied locally:

Mutual credit  >  Means of exchange

Credit clearing  >  Reducing the need for money and banks

Use-credit obligations  >  Means of storing value

Capacity vouchers  >  Allowing consumers to invest spare cash in local retailers

Credit commons  >  For scaling

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WHAO - World Heritage Autonomous Organisations

>> for improving participatory and/or polycentric governance through decentralised technology

The ways we build organisations and involve community stakeholders shape our communities as places to live and visit. Many of the organisations involved in World Heritage are strictly hierarchal, built with governance principles for the industrial age. 

What can organisations and networks support multi-stakeholder cooperation in the stewardship of World Heritage?

WHAO is emerging from applications of decentralised (web-3 and blockchain based) technologies in organisations built for the information age such as Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs). WHAO developed as a supplementary DAO for World Heritage Catalysis we are providing a safe testing ground for this technology with the emergence of an operation system that could be adapted to bring the benefits of such technologies to other organisations, networks and and communities.

>  Collaborative problem solving

>  Rewarding contributions through tokenomics

>  Secure & transparent voting by citizens and on key issues of interest 

> Secure & decentralised treasury management

>  Transparent organisational governance 

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