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This article disusses the rapid growth of the coastal urban centres in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa, and the impact of the coastal tourism sector including the producing vast quantities of pollution from untreated domestic sewage and posing a threat to the near-shore habitats such as coral reefs.

The Ecotourism Australia Ecotourism Standards certifies tourism products (tours, accommodations, attractions) with a primary focus on nature through a well managed commitment to sustainable practices that provides high quality nature-based tourism experiences.

This Nature Conservancy manual provides a set of criteria to ecotourism planners and managers at conservation NGOs to facilitate decisions with respect to eco-tourism management and development.

This set of guidelines was developed by the UNWTO Ethics, Culture and Social Responsibility Department, in collaboration with Indigenous leaders, with OECD input. The recommendations suggest specific solutions for the empowerment of Indigenous Peoples through tourism such as transitioning from “assisting” towards “enabling” indigenous entrepreneurship, fostering digital literacy for tourism businesses, and acknowledging the relevance of indigenous people and culture by the tourism sector.

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.

This WWF toolkit provides the background, tools and resources a hospitality property of any size needs to prevent food waste from occurring at their properties, donate what cannot be prevented but is still safe for people to eat, and divert the rest away from landfills.

This webinar presents information on how the City Nation Place Global 6th Annual Conference partnered with the Travel Foundation to offer destinations the opportunity of a COVID-19 pandemic recovery plan review through auditing plans for sustainability.

This article takes a holistic approach to considering the consequences of marine plastic pollution through a literature review of 1191 data points to determine the global ecological, social and economic impacts. The reduction in ecosystem service provision found in the study is expected to have implications for human health and wellbeing, linked particularly to fisheries, heritage and charismatic species, and recreation.

This Green Destinations Standard is a set of criteria to measure, monitor and improve sustainable tourism policies and management of destinations and regions.

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.