Collaborating with UNWTO
Sharing knowledge and experience
Projects, Presentations & Publications
Karin Elgin-Nijhuis has been collaborating with UNWTO (World Tourism Organization) since 2003, as owner of Elgin & Co. and as associate consultant of TEAM Tourism Consulting.
Please peruse thefollowing webpages:
- Speaking and Teaching for a selection of master classes and presentations given at the request of UNWTO.
- Publications for an overview of the UNWTO (and ETC) managed and/or co-authored.
- The UNWTO Destination Web Watch evaluation and benchmarking scheme.

In 2015 Jon Munro (Cinch Digital) and Karin Elgin-Nijhuis were invited to assist UNWTO’s communications department in preparing the Request for Proposals for a new UNWTO website and to, for example, help defining:
- The aims and objectives of the website, based on the organisational requirements.
- Detailed website requirements.
- Overall design guidelines.
- Design specifics (front-end user functionality) and design specifics (back-end functionality).
- Build specifics (technical and integration requirements).
- Guidelines for the supplier selection process.
Photos:
Seaside Dakar, Senegal, and Madrid, Spain | Karin Elgin-Nijhuis