Blue Ventures Toolkits
This toolkit, developed by Blue Ventures, provides practical guidance in setting up and maintaining Locally Managed Marine Areas.
Tourism Investment and Finance – Accessing Sustainable Funding and Social Impact Capital
This toolkit provides development practitioners with the information and tools necessary to successfully facilitate the financing of small-scale, sustainable tourism projects and to transfer these skills to their clients and counterparts.
Project Development for Sustainable Tourism – A Step-by-Step Approach
This toolkit introduces the participant to developing a sustainable tourism project that contributes to international development goals.
Problematic Blue Growth: a Thematic Synthesis of Social Sustainability Problems Related to Growth in Marine and Coastal Tourism
This paper presents information on existing sustainability issues related to the marine tourism sector and thematically synthesises sustainability problems in particular and brings them closer to sustainability science readers.
Involving Communities in Tourism Development
This resource shares several trial examples from Croatia, intended to strengthen relationships between the tourism sector and local communities by taking a more inclusive approach to tourism development.
The Travel Foundation Online Tourism Training
This foundation offers practical courses that educate all levels of stakeholders on sustainable tourism development.
Ocean Stewardship 2030
The United Nations Global Compact has various reports and recommendations to guide the public and private sector to foster sustainable and growing ocean business over the next decade.
Finance Tools for Coral Reef Conservation: A Guide
To contribute to the 50 Reefs Initiative, the Wildlife Conservation Society worked in alliance with the Conservation Finance Alliance to create a working guide on the financial tools available for coral reef conservation.
A Portrait of Economic Realities in Nosara and Sámara: Providing Tools for Sustainable Development
This report presents tools and structures that can help to reduce poverty and inequities, provide high quality local livelihoods, facilitate civic engagement, protect and enhance the environment and natural capital, and strengthen responsible tourism as an important and dynamic economic sector.
Cruise Tourism in Belize: Perceptions of Economic, Social & Environmental Impact
This study examines the terrestrial impacts – economic, social and environmental – of cruise tourism as they are viewed in Belize. It is based on field research, carried out in 2005 using academic protocols, involving over 600 surveys with cruise passengers and over 100 interviews with a range of stakeholders in Belize.