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In the broader definition currently used by the Green Jobs Programme
of the ILO: “Jobs are green when they help reduce negative environmental
impact ultimately leading to environmentally, economically and socially
sustainable enterprises and economies. More precisely green jobs are
decent jobs that: reduce consumption of energy and raw materials; limit
greenhouse gas emissions; minimize waste and pollution; and protect and
restore ecosystems”, (ILOa).

2.3 Green jobs and Statistical Framework for Measuring Sustainable
Tourism
Despite the long-standing interest and discussion of sustainable
tourism and the important advances in tourism statistics, there is as yet no
standardised basis for the collection of relevant information, at either the
national or subnational level. This is a significant gap, and one that limits
the potential for the development of policies directed at advancing
sustainable tourism. In order to fill this gap, UNWTO, with the support of
the UN Statistics Division (UNSD), has initiated the project Towards a
Statistical Framework for Measuring Sustainable Tourism (SF-MST). The
SF-MST aims at expanding the measurement of tourism, which currently
is mostly focused on economics, to include also environmental and social
considerations (employment in particular).
The SF-MST Sub-Group on Tourism Employment focusing on tourism
employment such as:
 Green jobs
 Human capital (availability of skills and experience)
 Decent work
 Others
In short, the Sub-group identifies interrelationships exiting among
green economy, green jobs and sustainable tourism.

2.4 Green Economy
This paper discusses the issue of measuring sustainable grassroots
tourism through green jobs that directly relates with the environmental
dimension of sustainability, which is a multifaceted phenomenon. Green
economy is a subset element of the environmental dimension of tourism
sustainability.
According to Jon Rynne, the economy is an ecosystem which consists
of green or eco-industries, Rynn (2007). He argues that green jobs will
reinvigorate the economy, creating entirely new green-collar job sectors.
EUROSTAT and OECD define an eco-industry as: “activities which produce
goods and services to measure, prevent, limit, minimize or correct
environmental damage to water, air and soil, as well as problems

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