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This CRC report presents a design and assessment model to assist tourism operators to manage low-impact nature-based sustainable tourism facilities in remote areas. Derived by studies conducted in Australia and informed by indigenous groups, the report provides design guidelines for facility infrastructure, and a framework for environmentally sustainable technology for energy, water and waste management systems.

This World Bank report outlines the importance of data and tools in Marine Spatial Planning (MSP), examines different aspects data and tools, general challenges and identifies how project managers, planners and implementers can support and add value to MSP projects. The report further presents MSP data categories, data gaps, various MSP tools and data services, and opportunity areas for engagement.

This IUCN report highlights the importance of biodiversity in hotels, and provides principles to integrate biodiversity-friendly actions into the design of hotel and resort buildings and in their daily operations.

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.

This CREST film presents the importance and practical steps to approach green travel for tourism businesses in the Caribbean.

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.

This UNWTO report gives an overview of tourism in SIDS and provides policy orientations, guidelines and other tools to the various tourism stakeholders in SIDS on how to address tourism challenges.

This WRI report makes the economic and security case for the development of resilient coastlines, and examines trade-offs between coastal protection and infrastructure development. The paper illustrates that practical solutions exist which can be implemented to allow economic and infrastructure development, without compromising the integrity and benefits of coastal ecosystems or disadvantaging the people who rely upon them.

This USAID and OAS training resource for public and private sector planners, aims to reduce the long-term vulnerability of coastal infrastructure in the Caribbean region by expanding the capacity for appropriate design, construction and maintenance of coastal infrastructure works, through series of training courses.

This CREST report highlights case studies in the Caribbean to see how various tourism sectors both contribute to and are impacted by climate change and presents innovative tourism businesses that are providing solutions to addressing climate change.