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The primary goal of this study is to investigate the present coastal management plans for blue carbon ecosystem management strategies using content analysis of the local plans of select municipalities in the Philippines. The analysis generated eight (8) clusters based on keywords focusing on mangrove and seagrass ecosystems, namely: ecological profile, ecosystem services, carbon sequestration, tourism, natural threats, anthropogenic threats, laws, policies, & ordinances, and management activities. The results of this study can serve as a benchmark for local policy-makers in updating their present management plans particularly in branching their focus on integrated management of seagrass ecosystems and advancing technical capacity and knowledge on blue carbon ecosystems.

The aim of these recommendations is to encourage tourism enterprises to develop their operations in a responsible and sustainable manner, while enabling those indigenous communities that wish to open up to tourism to take full grasp of opportunities that come along, following a thorough consultation process. The recommendations also target tourists that visit indigenous communities, and whose numbers are steadily increasing given the growth of tourism motivated by the interest to experience indigenous cultures and traditional lifestyles.

Sea Turtle Friendly™ Tourism acts to reduce impacts of development and recreational activities and provides new and sustainable livelihood opportunities to protect these species. Sea Turtle Friendly™ encourages the tourism sector to take pride in their role as sea turtle stewards and in securing a long-term future for a turtle-based tourism economy. Certification also empowers tourists to select hotel and excursion options with the confidence that they are truly supporting conservation efforts. The Sea Turtle Friendly™ Tourism standards include criteria on: nesting beach management, conservation of foraging habitat, beachfront lighting, guidelines for visitor behavior near sea turtles, monitoring, community involvement, and education and outreach.

From 2014 to 2017, the National Park Service (NPS) Social Science Program (SSP) worked with RSG via a contract to develop and conduct pilot implementation of an in-park Socioeconomic Monitoring (SEM) program for the National Park System. This report describes the results of the pilot SEM program and presents an implementation plan for a long-term SEM program. The NPS SEM implementation plan includes specifications and rough order of magnitude (ROM) cost estimates for a Base Model and information about potential methodological enhancements to the Base Model.

This visitor capacity guidebook, in combination with the “Visitor Use Management Framework,” provides managers with processes to collaboratively develop long-term strategies to manage the amounts and types of visitor use to protect resources, improve access, connect visitors to key experiences, and achieve desired conditions. The purpose of this guidebook is to provide cohesive guidance on identifying visitor capacity and implementing related management strategies and actions on federally managed lands and waters. Similar to the framework, the sliding scale of analysis is discussed throughout this guidebook to ensure the investment of time, money, and other resources for a project is commensurate with the complexity of the project and the consequences of the decision. Overall, this guidebook is meant to expand on the framework, guiding a professional and consistent approach to identifying and implementing visitor capacity.

This report intends to understand and define better the environmental and social footprint of coastal and maritime tourism in major global marine regions such as the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, the North East Atlantic, the South Pacific Ocean, and the Western Indian Ocean. It aims to identify and disseminate field learnings and innovative practices to propose management, policy and governance recommendations for decision-makers, tourism industry and other relevant stakeholders, with the final goal to accelerate the transition of blue tourism towards environmental and social sustainability.

Nature-based tourism (NBT) is a sub-component of the tourism sector that includes wildlife-based tourism. NBT is a powerful tool countries can leverage to grow and diversify their economies while protecting their biodiversity, and contributing to many sustainable development goals (SDG), including SDGs 12 and 15. Local communities, private sector enterprises, and governments can also benefit from investments in tourism through increased market opportunities and linkages to tourism services such as agriculture production, hoteling, restaurants, transportation, health services, etc. This report explores innovative tourism partnership and investment opportunities to help countries unlock smart investment and grow tourism sustainably. It showcases sustainable wildlife tourism models from Botswana, India, Kenya, South Africa and many other countries and promotes solutions that offer insight into the wildlife based tourism sector as a mechanism for inclusive poverty reduction and global conservation.

The Aboriginal Tourism Action Plan is designed to provide NSW Aboriginal tourism operators and the wider tourism industry with a practical guide to Destination NSW’s vision to support the development of Aboriginal tourism experiences and businesses in NSW. The new Aboriginal Tourism Action Plan 2017-2020 continues this vision and has a strong focus on trade and consumer promotion of NSW as a destination where Aboriginal culture is strong, vibrant and diverse while still continuing with the original goals of the first Aboriginal Tourism Action Plan 2013-2016, to develop a sustainable Aboriginal tourism sector.