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This UNWTO white paper explores the need for a sustainable Circular Economy and provides a framework to guide a more sustainable, resilient and future-proof tourism development in line with the UNWTO One Planet vision.

This comprehensive set of principles aims to help maximize the tourism sector’s benefits while minimizing its potentially negative impact on the environment, cultural heritage and societies across the globe.

This guide is designed to assist organizations and individuals working with micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises to conduct pre-feasibility studies, understand the market and financial analysis process, prepare investment briefs, identify potential sources of financing, understand how deals and joint ventures are structured, and work with governments to remove barriers to investment and provide broader access to credit.

Through this discussion paper, the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association provides a summary of the key issues surrounding the sharing economy, its impact on the tourism sector globally as well as regionally, and the opportunities presented by this emerging accommodations sector.

This blog describes the need of a healthy ocean to increase ocean wealth, and shares how increasing sustainability-focused investments in tourism can contribute significantly to the long-term wealth generated by oceans.

This World Bank Group article identifies different examples of Nature-Based Tourism Solutions being employed by the World Bank Group.

This guide provides nine tips for all actors involved in community joint ventures in tourism, including governments, the private sector, communities, banks, and nongovernmental organizations, to reduce risk and greatly improve joint ventures access to commercial finance.

This book examines the causes and effects of over tourism and provides insight on visitor education, traffic planning, and redirection to lesser-known sites for a variety of destination economies.

This report expands the socioeconomic benefit analysis of coral reefs and defines the role of reef adjacent tourism activities in tourism visits and expenditure.

This paper specifically looks at the role of private sector stakeholders in local ecotourism development in southern Africa. Recommendations are put forward as to how the private sector can further effect positive change in the areas where it is operating and ensure long-term sustainability.