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This toolkit, developed by Blue Ventures, provides practical guidance in setting up and maintaining Locally Managed Marine Areas.

This UNWTO white paper explores the need for a sustainable Circular Economy and provides a framework to guide a more sustainable, resilient and future-proof tourism development in line with the UNWTO One Planet vision.

This report presents an overview of climate-informed marine spatial planning (MSP), a participatory process that considers current and future climate risks and opportunities during design, planning, and implementation. Climate considerations in MSP harness the economic opportunities of the decarbonization pathway, while responding to the growing challenges of climate change through adaptive and integrated ocean management.

The Coastal Capital series provides decision-makers in the Caribbean with information and tools that link the health of coastal ecosystems. WRI and its partners have conducted economic valuation studies of coral reefs and mangroves at national and subnational levels in 5 countries: Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, Belize, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica and are using the results to identify and build support for policies that help to ensure healthy coastal ecosystems and sustainable economies.

This working paper looks at the benefits that coastal ecosystems provide to the Dominican Republic. The studies highlight the contribution of coastal ecosystems to the economy and the need for greater investment in protecting coastal and marine ecosystems, including better management of marine fisheries, protection of existing reserves, and enforcement of coastal development guidelines.

This toolkit provides a handbook and training materials, market research, and other resources for building a community based tourism model.

Compete Caribbean developed a toolkit useful for potential tour operators considering developing community-based tourism experiences or any product that relies on community engagement. Discussions range from quality assurance to determining market readiness.

Diversification into tourism is often suggested as a potential solution for the increasing concerns over globally declining fishing opportunities, particularly for small-scale fishers. Through the lens of psychosocial identity, qualitative data analysis from interviews with current and previous fishers in Cornwall shows how people are deconstructing and reconstructing their identities in the transition from fishing to tourism work, and that experiences of marine tourism diversification are dynamic, multifaceted, and embedded in social encounters. This article expands current discussions on work transitions by giving insight into the lived experiences of marine tourism operators from a psychosocial perspective, to go beyond the dominant economic narrative of diversification and social change, which has implications on how transitions into tourism work are facilitated.

This research article provides a report on research assessing the extent to which tourism contributes towards biodiversity financing for Protected Areas management in southern African countries.

This checklist is designed as a practical and participatory tool to help implement and continuously improve practical action to prevent and mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in accommodation and food service activities.