The Center for Sustainable Tourism is an interdisciplinary effort of many university academic and non-academic units. Of particular note are the roles that the Office of Engagement, Innovation and Economic Development and the College of Health and Human Performance play in providing support for the Center's Sustainable Tourism Initiatives Coordinator and the Associate Director for Academic Programs, respectively.
The Center is dedicated to promoting sustainable tourism throughout our region and across North Carolina and the nation through innovation in graduate education, leadership development, community consultation, and collaborative research. Devoted to implementing sustainable practices in business operations, public policies, and personal travel behaviors, the Center offers solutions to challenges facing the tourism industry and destination communities as they balance economic viability with socio-cultural and environmental enhancement and equity.
Knowing how to begin incorporating sustainability can be difficult. One place to start is by crafting a formal environmental and social policy or including sustainability as part of your business' mission or vision statement. With an organizational-wide approach, your environmental and social commitments are positioned to be incorporated in every part of your business. To help organize your sustainable efforts, you can create a green team. Green teams with diverse company representation are the most helpful because they provide insight to the entirety of your business as well as foster employee participation. Communicating with other likeminded businesses is also a helpful tool in becoming more sustainable. One such group is the N.C. Sustainable Business Council. The recently launched N.C. GreenHotels Listserv, moderated by the N.C. Pollution Prevention program, is another option to connect with environmental and socially conscious organizations in the tourism industry.
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Enrique Reyes is interested as an applied scientist in exploring opportunities that meet coastal needs for climate-related decision support enhancing communication with coastal managers and policy makers for more extensive incorporation of human dimensions into existing regional ecosystem models and coastal simulations with the aim to build groundwork for the development of an integrated socio-ecological model.
Knowing how to begin incorporating sustainability can be difficult. One place to start is by crafting a formal environmental and social policy or including sustainability as part of your business' mission or vision statement. With an organizational-wide approach, your environmental and social commitments are positioned to be incorporated in every part of your business. To help organize your sustainable efforts, you can create a green team. Green teams with diverse company representation are the most helpful because they provide insight to the entirety of your business as well as foster employee participation. Communicating with other likeminded businesses is also a helpful tool in becoming more sustainable. One such group is the 
