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This OECD report describes the significant impact of COVID-19 on the tourism economy and highlights different countries recovery methods. These include considerations on lifting travel restrictions, restoring traveller confidence and rethinking the tourism sector for the future.

This outlook report shares how the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cast a long shadow over the world’s economies but economic prospects have improved with the forthcoming global vaccines rollout. This Interim Report provides updates for G20 country projections made in the December 2020.

The OECD has developed a Green Recovery Database that tracks COVID-19 recovery measures with likely environmental implications, positively or negatively, across 43 countries. This resource shares the unfolding results of countries' “green recovery” stimulus packages.

This report urges tourism stakeholders to continue fighting plastic pollution during the COVID-19 recovery. This document illustrates how reducing the plastic footprint, increasing the engagement of suppliers, working closer with waste service providers, and ensuring transparency on the actions taken, can significantly contribute to a responsible recovery of the tourism sector.

This webinar discusses the devastating impact COVID-19 has had on tourism, and on coastal and marine tourism in particular. The webinar presents information on coastal economic sectors and marine conservation, changes in tourists for coastal destinations and how the pandemic may benefit coastal and marine tourism in the long run.

This report provides information for businesses to weather the economic storm induced by the current COVID-19 pandemic, and outlines safeguards to put in place to stand resilient in the face of future crises.

This Concept Paper reviews how the COVID-19 crisis can potentially be alleviated in Southeast Asia and the Pacific via a destination-focused sustainable finance program that is developed to enable a sustainable recovery, address ailing destination infrastructure, and reequip tourism SMEs as value creators.

This PATA report recommends that destination managers and other tourism stakeholders across the Asia Pacific region begin creating close partnerships with public health officials, tourism supply chain businesses, and local communities to commence a coordinated renewal of traveller confidence in the health and safety of their destination.

This PATA compendium of tools and resources provides guidance to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic including case studies, communication strategy, a crisis communication planner, aviation kit, hospitality kit, tour operator kit, SME kit, and printable COVID-19 signage.

This paper shares experiences from around the world on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on protected area tourism; and considers how to build resilience within protected area tourism as a regenerative conservation tool.