Green Travel Index
The Green Travel Index is the first global B2 -Decent work and career opportunitiesB platform to position sustainable content to the mainstream tourism market. As a neutral and independent platform, the index provides data of registered sustainable certified businesses into the travel chain as a way to increase consumer awareness and facilitate sustainable bookings.
Destinations at Risk: The Invisible Burden of Tourism
This Travel Foundation report describes how destinations must uncover and account for tourism’s hidden costs, referred to as the “invisible burden”, to protect and manage vital destination assets worldwide, and gives insights into types of data-driven systems that can address growth issues and facilitate new forms of investment.
Compendium of Best Practices in Sustainable Tourism
This UN report is a compendium of best practices for promotion of sustainable (eco)tourism which consists of 18 best practices in sustainable (eco)tourism initiated by governments, NGOs, and private sectors, in developing countries, including SIDS, with potentials for replication elsewhere.
Sustainable Coastal Tourism: An Integrated Planning and Management Approach
This UNEP report considers current issues in growing coastal tourism and highlights the potential of an integrated planning and management approach to support the public sector, private sector, and civil society.
Expert Group meeting on Sustainable Tourism: Ecotourism, Poverty Reduction and Environmental Protection
This UN expert group meeting report provides an assessment of sustainable tourism and shares recommendations to develop ecotourism potentials, including, among others, Small Island Developing States as well as other countries with coastal, mountainous or forest, lake or desert tourism attractions/resources.
The ASC-MSC Seaweed Standard
The MSC and ASC standard is a seaweed-specific assessment the support widespread adoption of good practices in sustainable seaweed production and provides a benchmark for improvement.
Land Management for Investment Project |Cabo Verde
The MCC Land Project report is an authoritative management information source, created to help private and public sector decision makers to reduce the time and cost of land transactions and registration protocols in Cabo Verde. This report also provides an economic analysis focused on tourism development in Cabo Verde.
Capacity Reconsidered: Finding Consensus and Clarifying Differences
This National Association of Recreation Resource Planners paper presents known information on the carrying capacity of the environment to handle human use including planning agreements, and issues in capacity consensus.
The South African Tourism Planning Toolkit
This National Department of Tourism of the Republic of South Africa toolkit was designed to provide local government agencies a framework for doing basic tourism planning at the local level with key industry and community stakeholders.
Congestion Management Support
This National Parks Service toolkit provides a list of solutions and tools that can be applied to address specific traffic congestion problems and issues in national park settings and uses a step-by-step process to solve congestion, based on adaptive management.