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This collection of country protocols by the CTO includes COVID-19 protocols for Barbados, Belize, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Maarten, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, and Turks and Caicos. The resource includes guidelines and checklists for safely resuming business operations and resorting tourism to the region.

This article uses the example of the Diamond Princess, the only cruise ship where the spreading of the COVID-19 virus could be traced, to analyze the impacts of infectious diseases in cruises and how to prevent cases.

This briefing focuses on what we know about the short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our environment, approximately six months after large parts of the world went into some degree of lockdown. It considers what can be learnt from these effects and how they might help shape decision-making in the future.

This report examines how the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded and its devastating impacts on the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. Packed with international case studies, it takes the reader from the very outset of the crisis, how the industry reacted and its message to the market, through to its impacts and a possible future.

This UNWTO resource offers three series guides and good practices to outline steps that the tourism sector should take to build back better, becoming more accessible and more competitive after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The CTO and the George Washington University (GWU) developed a Destination Dashboard for Recovery Template and Guide to support destination management organizations easily find, organize, and present timely information about COVID-19 pandemic health updates, industry performance indicators, and traveler sentiment data.

The CTO and the George Washington University (GWU) developed a Digital Toolkit for Tourism SMEs which provides guidance on how businesses can utilize digital resources to help in their recovery planning during and after the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.

This UN resource offers an interactive tool to view COVID-19 Funding for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) around the world.

This KPMG article reviews how the cruise industry has been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis and actions taken by the private and public sector to protect the cruise industry.

This UNWTO package offers guidance to both public and private tourism sector stakeholders in their COVID-19 pandemic crisis response by outlining UNWTO’s range of technical assistance and detailing potential areas of intervention, including impact assessment, roles and responsibilities.