The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, also known by its acronym SDG, refers to the initiative promoted by the United Nations (UN) towards the adoption of a set of 17 goals of universal application focused on eradicating poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda (1): the Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development. These goals were set in 2015 as the predecessors of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), and are intended to achieve those targets that could not be achieved over a period of 15 years.

In TOP-GOVERSYS we are firmly committed to the set of 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Therefore, from our social media networks, we celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. 

The concept 'Governmental and Institutional Travel and Tourism' (GITT), as well as the philosophy of Tourism Optimizer Platform (TOP)-GOVERSYS, fit into the framework of the 23rd General Assembly of the UNWTO, aimed at achieving SDG 4 and 8. Additionally, from a strictly functional point of view, TOP actively and directly contributes to the achievement of five of the SDG defined in the 2030 Agenda.

The awareness of society in recent decades regarding sustainable development and care for the planet had its result at the end of 2015, when the United Nations promoted an initiative that would give continuity to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). After a negotiation process involving 193 UN member states, a series of global goals were adopted with very clear purposes: to protect the planet, eradicate poverty and ensure international prosperity. These goals were approved at a summit held in New York through a high-level plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, and were included in the so-called Sustainable Development Agenda - or Agenda 2030 - through 17 goals, or Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be achieved by that date.