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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 Aquaculture Stewardship Council Farm Standards include eleven robust marine farming standards for over 17 marine species groups and an additional standard for seaweed. This resource is useful for anyone working in coastal agritourism.

The Enhancing COVID-19 Preparedness for Tourism Recovery project will strengthen the capacity and readiness of Fiji to safely reopen to tourists and rebuild the country's economy following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The project will support Nadi International Airport to reopen with COVID-19 measures and Fiji Airways to deliver a testing facility for tourists and those working in the tourism industry to reduce the risk of transmission and facilitate international travel under the 'new normal'.

The GSTC Destination criteria presents a comprehensive list of certification standards, indicators, criteria, and best practices for tourism stakeholder to use as basic guidelines for sustainable destination development and management. The GSTC criteria is organized into four main categories: management, socioeconomic, culture, and the environment.

The GSTC criteria for hotels and tour operators provides business owners with standards and indicators to effectively conduct sustainable planning while maximizing social and economic benefits for the local community, enhancing cultural heritage, and reducing negative impacts to the environment, as a basis for certification for sustainability.

This IUCN guide offers a user-friendly framework for the verification, design and scaling up of Nature-based Solutions through the utilization of the IUCN Global Standards for Nature-based Solutions.

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.