Blue Bonds: An Audacious Plan to Save the World’s Ocean
The Nature Conservancy’s Blue Bonds for Conservation model helps governments unlock funding for conservation—and could benefit millions of people in coastal regions. Demonstrated by successful projects in Barbados, Belize and the Seychelles. The Blue Bonds strategy combines conservation finance with TNC’s science and marine planning expertise to help governments unlock funds at a scale that […]
Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry: Principles of Sustainable Operations
This foundational textbook investigates the economic, environmental and social sustainability issues facing the hospitality industry today, and explores ideas, solutions and strategies of how to manage operations in a sustainable way. This updated fourth edition features: nature-based solutions and zero-carbon approaches, DEI and employee wellbeing, over 100 case studies, practical exercises, discussions questions and research project […]
Climate Action Corps 2021 Progress
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 […]
Calculate Your Travel Carbon Footprint
Use the Sustainable Travel International carbon footprint calculator to calculate travel emissions and purchase carbon offsets.
Tourism Killed Thailand’s Most Famous Bay – Here’s How it was Brought Back to Life
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.
Adventure for All: Adapting to Accessibility in Adventure Travel
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 […]
The Ecotourism Master Class Series
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 […]
Homestay and Community Based Tourism Toolkit
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.
TIDE Toolkit: Tourism Toolkit for European Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
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, […]
Reimagining Resilience: COVID-19 and Marine Tourism in Indonesia
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 […]