The municipality of Ilhabela Island, Brazil,hosted its 1st Sustainable Tourism Workshop. More than 50 local tourism professionals and visitors,including hotel owners, operators, consultants, media and public officials,participated in the presentations and field activities, which included the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria and best practices, tools and solutions to develop and market a more responsible tourism on the island by Hopineo. The event included 5 field excursions: Historical visit of the city center, Lunch and boat excursion to the north of the island, Visit to the traditional Caiçaras community of Castelhanos Bay, Visit to the traditional Caiçaras community of Bonete, Bird watching in the Aguas Brancas Trail of Ilhabela State Park. This Experience enabled participants to: Introduce many future local actions on Ilhabela with local and international share experience Help understand how to implement sustainable tourism Learn how to set up and design a project that corresponds to the interests and desires of all Make things better and build together new projects and new ideas As a result of the event, the group of international professionals who visited Ilhabela to attend the workshop compiled a list of suggestions for the improvement and development of better ecotourism and sustainable tourism practices on Ilhabela. Maud Vannelli, Ambassador Hopineo & BaRaKa Trip & Consulting, put together and added further suggestions from her experiences and the freely accessible library of good practices on www.hopineo.org/en/hopsolutions-resources/good-practices/search