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EPA's Global Change Explorer (GCX) is a collection of web tools that visualize, compare, and provide access to spatial data that describe potential future environmental change. These data can serve as a starting point when assessing the vulnerability of air, water, ecosystems, and human health to climate change, land use change, and other large-scale environmental stressors. The data and tools in the Global Change Explorer are relevant across multiple scientific disciplines and environmental media, providing a foundation for integrated assessments of global change.

The UNWTO Global Tourism Crisis Committee presents resources and tools to support destinations and businesses navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and industry recovery.

In June 2020, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Sommet Education launched the Hospitality Challenge. This was designed to identify ideas and individuals capable of accelerating the recovery of the tourism sector in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance (GSTA) is a partnership of leading organizations in the sustainable tourism field working together with USAID Missions to apply a holistic and market-driven approach to sustainable tourism development. This alliance enabled its members (including leading tourism development institutions, conservation organizations, the private sector, and USAID) to combine resources, expertise and reach in exciting and innovative ways.

This e-book is an up-to-date collection of nature-based tourism (NBT) tools and resources to support NBT practitioners. It is hosted by the Global Wildlife Program’s Nature-Based Tourism Community of Practice at the World Bank. You can search by keywords or use the filters below to narrow your search.

Nature-based tourism (NBT) plays an important role in sustainable development. It can support poverty alleviation, economic growth, and biodiversity conservation and contribute to key global agreements and frameworks, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. NBT’s singular potential to create jobs and growth, while protecting wildlife and ecosystems, makes it an enticing prospect for developing countries seeking to align those interests. The Nature-Based Tourism (NBT) Community of Practice (CoP) commissioned a comprehensive review of the tools and knowledge resources that could be used by practitioners in the field of NBT, to prepare and implement projects that promote sustainable NBT practices and policies.

The World Economic Forum COVID Action Platform focuses on three priorities: galvanizing the global business community for collective action, protecting people’s livelihoods and facilitate business continuity, and mobilizing cooperation and business support for the COVID-19 response.

For over 30 years, WTTC has conducted research on the economic impact of Travel & Tourism in 185 countries and issues such as overcrowding, taxation, policy-making, and many others to raise awareness of the importance of the Travel & Tourism sector as one of the world’s largest economic sectors.

Resource Watch features hundreds of data sets all in one place on the state of the planet’s resources and citizens. Users can visualize challenges facing people and the planet, from climate change to poverty, water risk to state instability, air pollution to human migration, and more.

The Green Solutions Platform is a ‘green market place’ that provides destinations and tourism sector companies with solutions to actual sustainability challenges. Green Solutions are identified and presented at our vents, and they are especially recommended to destinations with whom we cooperate, when appropriate.