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This GEF report promotes biodiversity conservation with emphasis on biodiversity-rich coastal ecosystems through the design and implementation of innovative policies and models of sustainable tourism in Mexico at the national and the local levels.

This STI article educates about the waste and pollution resulting from tourism including its negative impacts, what's at stake from continued pollution, and steps to reduce tourism pollution. It features various case studies and resources in destinations including Mexico, Chile, Fiji, Samoa, Jamaica, Dominica, Barbados, and St. Kitts.

This IUCN report highlights the importance of biodiversity in hotels, and provides principles to integrate biodiversity-friendly actions into the design of hotel and resort buildings and in their daily operations.

This IUCN report presents five Biodiversity Principles for siting and design which focus on how biodiversity and associated social impacts can be better addressed in the planning and construction stages of the hotel life cycle. Thirteen case studies have been developed to illustrate how these principles can be implemented.

This Solimar International toolkit includes two different publications developed with support of USAID aimed at linking tourism and conservation in a sustainable way including six conservation models that link sustainable tourism, biodiversity conservation, and community development and a framework for responding rapidly to crises originating for tourism and visitation.

This CREST report highlights case studies in the Caribbean to see how various tourism sectors both contribute to and are impacted by climate change and presents innovative tourism businesses that are providing solutions to addressing climate change.

This CREST and Business Expert Press book focused on how various marine recreation sectors are preparing for climate change and how to promote and practice sustainable tourism that provides economic opportunities while conserving the reefs, mangroves, and other marine ecosystems that protect and sustain Caribbean islands.

Turneffe Atoll is an integral part of Belize’s reef system as well as a global “hot spot” for marine biodiversity. This analysis, by the Center for Responsible Travel (CREST), examines key issues facing the new 325,000 acre Marine Reserve and the Reserve’s two main economic sectors: commercial fishing and tourism.

This collaborative WRI, WWF, UNGC, and CDP set of targets provide businesses with a clearly-defined path to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement.

This UNEP action plan is for policy makers, destination planners and managers, and private sector industry stakeholders. It explains how to make the accommodation value chain more sustainable in Saint Lucia, reducing the negative impacts of tourism, such as marine pollution and environmental degradation, and its high demands on natural resources.