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The Outdoor Industry Association founded the Climate Action Corps in 2020 to harness the power of collaboration to address the threat of climate change to the outdoor industry. Understanding that employees, shareholders, customers, and – most importantly – the next generations are expecting businesses to be the change. To date, 100 and growing Climate Action Corps members have demonstrated tremendous progress on measuring, setting targets, reducing emissions, and showed up in unprecedented numbers to demand equally bold policy action. Annual Progress Reports and collective highlights from 2021 are included in this progress update.

Use the Sustainable Travel International carbon footprint calculator to calculate travel emissions and purchase carbon offsets.

This CNN article presents the history of the famous Maya Bay, Thailand and the visitor management strategies and regulations  implemented to rehabilitate local ecosystems and develop infrastructure and systems for better visitor management.

ATTA has publicly recognized the importance of increased accessibility in adventure travel since at least 2008, when the Adventure Travel World Summit in Sao Paulo, Brazil featured a concurrent session on Innovation & Best Practices: Serving Specialty Needs – Accessibility and Adventure. Although the travel industry is beginning to understand this and accommodate a wider range of people, there is more work to be done to understand how to make destinations and businesses most accessible. This post provides key insights through about accessibility in the full visitor experience cycle.

The master class program has been developed to offer a practical training and skills development opportunity for tourism business leaders, conservation and development professionals, and other industry stakeholders engaged in tourism and community development.
An online learning series on sustainable tourism, including marketing, development, interpretation, education and development and management criteria. Each course is a concise expert talk on specific subjects.

This Blue Ventures, Seventy Three, Yayasan Barunasta and WWF Malaysia toolkit sets out a number of key strategic considerations that local communities, and their partners in government and civil society, might wish to take into account when deciding whether and how to develop a community based tourism venture.

This guide aims to help identify underwater cultural heritage, its potential, needs and threats, providing tools both for the evaluation of these aspects and for the responsible and sustainable activation of this heritage. The focus will be on the maritime heritage shared by the Atlantic regions and, in particular heritage related to the Napoleonic Era, the Spanish Armada, the World Wars and the migrations of the 19th century.

Resilience issues are explored in the context of different forms of tourism in a marine national park in eastern Indonesia. This paper uses an agency-based livelihood resilience framework to examine the social structures, agency, and livelihood capital of the surrounding socio-ecological systems as driven by these operations. The findings suggest that the dominant development discourse in Indonesia and among tourism planners focusing on the growth of ‘high-end’ exclusive forms of tourism has neglected livelihood capital and made communities more vulnerable to ruptures like COVID-19. Emerging from this crisis, this research urges academics, practitioners, and business owners to ‘reimagine’ the potential of tourism to first and foremost empower more resilient socio-ecological systems in the face of an increasingly uncertain future.

Directrices sobre cómo Perú continuará su desarrollo del turismo comunitario, así como un detalle del proceso por el que pasó el Ministerio para garantizar que hubiera aportes colectivos y representativos en la versión final.

This report recognises the devastating impact of COVID-19 – the travel industry’s biggest ever disruptor. The immediate focus is naturally on business survival and recovery, but also covers the urgent challenges that the industry faced before the pandemic and will continue to face.