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This USAID and EnterpriseWorks report is a guidance tool, presenting green market trends using the language, research findings, and market segmentation of U.S. based markets.

This report offers best practices and case studies for concessions in protected areas in Latin America.

This article analyzes the visitation issues created by cruise tourism. The article investigates how cruise tourism generates significant income as well as unchecked massive visitation to destinations in the Mediterranean with high impacts on local interests and environment.

This ETC handbook provides European National Tourism Organisations (NTOs) at all levels with resources, toolkits and an implementation framework to support the development of national approaches that advance sustainable tourism development and management.

This Failte Ireland ecotourism handbook provides practical steps and guidance and resources for ecotourism businesses development and management.

This technical paper addresses the growth of private standards and certifications for fisheries and aquaculture businesses to meet current good practices and prepare for emerging issues in the marine industries.

This GAdventures tool provides information on the Ripple Score, a tool used for tour operators and destination managers to calculate and evaluate economic leakages from tour operator led trips.

The GSTC Destination criteria presents a comprehensive list of certification standards, indicators, criteria, and best practices for tourism stakeholder to use as basic guidelines for sustainable destination development and management. The GSTC criteria is organized into four main categories: management, socioeconomic, culture, and the environment.

The GSTC criteria for hotels and tour operators provides business owners with standards and indicators to effectively conduct sustainable planning while maximizing social and economic benefits for the local community, enhancing cultural heritage, and reducing negative impacts to the environment, as a basis for certification for sustainability.

This Government of Malawi set of guidelines focus on the creation and management of tourism concessions within Protected Areas with the development of a progressive relationship between co-management partners including local communities and tour operators.