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This visitor capacity guidebook, in combination with the “Visitor Use Management Framework,” provides managers with processes to collaboratively develop long-term strategies to manage the amounts and types of visitor use to protect resources, improve access, connect visitors to key experiences, and achieve desired conditions. The purpose of this guidebook is to provide cohesive guidance on identifying visitor capacity and implementing related management strategies and actions on federally managed lands and waters. Similar to the framework, the sliding scale of analysis is discussed throughout this guidebook to ensure the investment of time, money, and other resources for a project is commensurate with the complexity of the project and the consequences of the decision. Overall, this guidebook is meant to expand on the framework, guiding a professional and consistent approach to identifying and implementing visitor capacity.

Coastal Areas Sustainable Tourism Water Management in the Mediterranean is the first Interreg MED project supporting sustainable tourism policies & practices on water efficiency in coastal areas, has the overall objective to support sustainable tourism water management in Med coastal areas, by improving the monitoring and assessment of the water sustainability performance of the tourism sector.

This report intends to understand and define better the environmental and social footprint of coastal and maritime tourism in major global marine regions such as the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, the North East Atlantic, the South Pacific Ocean, and the Western Indian Ocean. It aims to identify and disseminate field learnings and innovative practices to propose management, policy and governance recommendations for decision-makers, tourism industry and other relevant stakeholders, with the final goal to accelerate the transition of blue tourism towards environmental and social sustainability.

Nature-based tourism (NBT) is a sub-component of the tourism sector that includes wildlife-based tourism. NBT is a powerful tool countries can leverage to grow and diversify their economies while protecting their biodiversity, and contributing to many sustainable development goals (SDG), including SDGs 12 and 15. Local communities, private sector enterprises, and governments can also benefit from investments in tourism through increased market opportunities and linkages to tourism services such as agriculture production, hoteling, restaurants, transportation, health services, etc. This report explores innovative tourism partnership and investment opportunities to help countries unlock smart investment and grow tourism sustainably. It showcases sustainable wildlife tourism models from Botswana, India, Kenya, South Africa and many other countries and promotes solutions that offer insight into the wildlife based tourism sector as a mechanism for inclusive poverty reduction and global conservation.

The Aboriginal Tourism Action Plan is designed to provide NSW Aboriginal tourism operators and the wider tourism industry with a practical guide to Destination NSW’s vision to support the development of Aboriginal tourism experiences and businesses in NSW. The new Aboriginal Tourism Action Plan 2017-2020 continues this vision and has a strong focus on trade and consumer promotion of NSW as a destination where Aboriginal culture is strong, vibrant and diverse while still continuing with the original goals of the first Aboriginal Tourism Action Plan 2013-2016, to develop a sustainable Aboriginal tourism sector.

The toolkit provides businesses with fact sheets and contact information to connect export-ready Aboriginal tourism products to the market. The toolkit is one of the deliverable actions under the NSW Aboriginal Tourism Action Plan. DNSW also provides assistance to Aboriginal tourism operators in the development of their businesses, from concept to market ready in both Australian and international markets.

This proposed set of guidelines from the Organization of American States provides an overview of the structure, focus, benefits, and characteristics of Community-Based Rural Tourism in countries throughout the Americas (in Spanish).

This webinar addresses the issue of the climate change and the tourism activities impacts of the World Heritage Sites.  The report 'Destinations at risk, World Heritage & Tourism in a Changing Climate' provides an overview of the increasing vulnerability of World Heritage sites to climate change impacts and the potential implications for and of global tourism. The report stresses the importance of sound site management practices.

INHERIT is a 4 year project that aims to conserve and valorise natural heritage in MED coastal and maritime tourist destinations, alleviating the adverse effects of overcapacity tourism in these areas through the promotion of sustainable tourism. The project will test and deploy a new approach in promoting  sustainable tourism that includes measures to protect its natural heritage from mass tourism effects, and a strategy of transnational cooperation to form a network of MED areas, which will prioritise the enhanced protection of their natural heritage as an asset to develop sustainable tourism activities and to ensure responsible development.

CO-EVOLVE analyzed and promoted the co-evolution of human activities and natural systems in touristic coastal areas in the Mediterranean, allowing for the sustainable development of touristic activities, based on the principles of Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Maritime Spatial Planning. The aim was to demonstrate through pilot actions the feasibility and effectiveness of an ICZM/MSP-based planning process.