International Perspectives on Visitor Use Management
This IUCN report provides guidance on key issues to help managers achieve sustainable tourism in protected areas.
Tourism Destination Management – Achieving Sustainable and Competitive Results Toolkit
This Solimar International toolkit outlines practical steps to build a successful Destination Management Organization (DMO) to increase visitation while preserving a destination’s natural and cultural assets.
Tourism Workforce Development Toolkit
This Solimar International manual focuses on work force development with three major components: Introduction to Tourism Workforce Development; use of the Guide to Assessing and Designing Tourism Workforce Development Programs; and case studies focused on implementing tourism-related workforce development programs.
Ecotourism development: A manual for conservation planners and managers; Volume II: The business of ecotourism development and management
This Nature Conservancy manual provides a set of criteria to ecotourism planners and managers at conservation NGOs to facilitate decisions with respect to eco-tourism management and development.
Collaboration is the Only Way How the tourism industry in Cabo Verde became more sustainable
This post presents the Travel Foundation united industry stakeholders in a ‘Destination Council’, empowering them to create a shared vision and actions for sustainable tourism following a tourism impact assessment of two Cabo Verde islands.
Case Studies in Ecotourism
This book analyzes over 170 global case studies and shows what ecotourism can achieve and what constraints it faces, and provides a convenient and comprehensive reference for ecotourism enterprises, development agencies and university teaching.
A Question of Balance: Green is the New Black
This Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia tool provides a simple online self-assessment for tourism operators to measure their own practices and work toward improvements, and includes ideas and best practices to enhance competitiveness.
Applying Inclusive Business Approaches to Nature-Based Tourism in Namibia and South Africa
This article aims to quantify the impact of businesses implementing inclusive business strategies through value proposition to determine the value of nature-based tourism to local communities and businesses with a focus on nature-based tourism in Namibia and South Africa.
Sun-and-Beach Tourism and the Importance of Intra-Destination Movements in Mature Destinations
This study based in Mallorca (Spain), one of the Mediterranean’s leading sun and beach destinations, focuses on the spatial behaviour of visitors within mature destinations to provide useful information to destination decision makers in regards to tourist flow, visitor management and destination planning.
Assessment of Natural Resources for Nature-Based Tourism: the Case of the Central Coast Region of Western Australia
This article identifies and assesses resources for the development of a nature-based tourism industry in the Central Coast Region of Western Australia as part of a government planning processes.