The Travel Foundation Online Tourism Training
This foundation offers practical courses that educate all levels of stakeholders on sustainable tourism development.
Teacher’s Guide for Caribbean ‘Green’ Travel: Your Choices Make a Difference
This CREST study guide is designed to help teachers at any level who wish to use the CREST “Caribbean Green Travel” film in their classes and introduce key concepts about sustainable tourism and community development. voluntourism, certification, and so on. This guide includes discussion questions, ideas for in-class or take-home activities, and used for exam […]
Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry: Principles of Sustainable Operations
This foundational textbook investigates the economic, environmental and social sustainability issues facing the hospitality industry today, and explores ideas, solutions and strategies of how to manage operations in a sustainable way. This updated fourth edition features: nature-based solutions and zero-carbon approaches, DEI and employee wellbeing, over 100 case studies, practical exercises, discussions questions and research project […]
Pandemics, Tourism and Global Change: a Rapid Assessment of COVID-19
The paper compares the impacts of COVID-19 to previous epidemic/pandemics and other types of global crises and explores how the pandemic may change society, the economy, and tourism. It discusses why COVID-19 is an analogue to the ongoing climate crisis, and why there is a need to question the volume growth tourism model.
Whale Shark Guide Training in Mexico
This Travel Foundation training, developed with local and international organizations, offers courses for guides with areas including the biology and ecology of whale sharks, research, conservation, guest briefings, codes of conduct and guidelines for whale shark encounters in Mexico. A manual for the training with presentations, reference notes and activity cards was provided, and at […]
Future-Proof Recovery Strategies: Auditing your Planning for Sustainability
This webinar presents information on how the City Nation Place Global 6th Annual Conference partnered with the Travel Foundation to offer destinations the opportunity of a COVID-19 pandemic recovery plan review through auditing plans for sustainability.
Collaboration is the Only Way How the tourism industry in Cabo Verde became more sustainable
This post presents the Travel Foundation united industry stakeholders in a ‘Destination Council’, empowering them to create a shared vision and actions for sustainable tourism following a tourism impact assessment of two Cabo Verde islands.
Destinations at Risk: The Invisible Burden of Tourism
This Travel Foundation report describes how destinations must uncover and account for tourism’s hidden costs, referred to as the “invisible burden”, to protect and manage vital destination assets worldwide, and gives insights into types of data-driven systems that can address growth issues and facilitate new forms of investment.
IDB Sustainability Scorecard for Private Sector Tourism Projects
This self-evaluation “Scorecard” is intended to guide a proposed tourism project representative to understand the foundational funding needs of their project from design, construction, and operation of the tourism project. This can be a useful tool for project managers to understand their project’s funding needs and opportunities for improvement.
Reviving the Economy of the Mediterranean Sea
This report, developed by the Boston Consulting Group and the World Wildlife Foundation, demonstrates the economic and social impacts of the blue economy on the Mediterranean region and outlines a shift to sustainable practices.