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Reef-World, the team behind Green Fins, has created these guidelines to help Green Fins members deal with chemical cleaning agents in an environmentally friendly way. These recommendations are a consolidation of known best practice around the safe management and disposal of hazardous waste and chemicals.

The Gender Mainstreaming Guidelines for the Public Sector in Tourism contain tools to support national, regional, local and other tourism institutions apply an approach to tourism planning, programming and implementation that integrates gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.

The business case for advancing gender equality are well documented. In tourism, the benefits are further amplified due to the high proportion of women working in the sector. The "Gender Inclusive Strategy for Tourism Businesses" contains tools to support private sector tourism enterprises of all types and sizes achieve effective and consistent strategies and programmes for gender equality across their operations.

This comprehensive set of principles aims to help maximize the tourism sector’s benefits while minimizing its potentially negative impact on the environment, cultural heritage and societies across the globe.

In order to support the efforts taken by Member States in the recovery of the tourism sector from the Covid-19 pandemic, the “International Code for the Protection of Tourists” (ICPT) aims at restoring consumers’ confidence by developing and harmonizing minimum international standards for the protection of tourists in emergency situations, including but not limited to pandemics, and consumer rights of tourists in the post COVID-19 world.

This UNESCO World Heritage manual is intended as a tool for capacity-building for the effective management of heritage, and for World Heritage properties in particular. It is designed to equip people involved in heritage conservation and management, and empower policy makers through improved institutional structures.

This UNWTO and One Planet Network repository aims to inspire further action from governments and the private sector in addressing issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic by highlighting tools and initiatives from stakeholders which are leading by example, as well as providing reflections of thought and opinion leaders on the challenges and opportunities for the responsible and sustainable recovery of tourism.

This CBD document shows the origins of the Convention on Biological Diversity with 3 main objectives of: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of the components of biological diversity, and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources.