DestiNet.eu is a Knowledge Networking portal for Sustainable Tourism and Responsible Tourism. It was started in 2002 by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the Network Evolution for Sustainable Tourism (NEST).[1] [2]
The World Tourism Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) became partners in 2006.
ECOTRANS has been the executive body since 2005. (ECOTRANS - founded in 1993 - is a non-profit organisation based in Saarbrücken, Germany. It is a European network of experts and organisations in tourism, environment and regional development).QualityCoast is one of the organisation in the Ecotrans-network. It is dedicated to sustainable tourism in coastal regions and relates its members to DestiNet.