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This UNWTO resource offers three series guides and good practices to outline steps that the tourism sector should take to build back better, becoming more accessible and more competitive after the COVID-19 pandemic.

This report presents data on the economic, social and environmental impacts of cruise tourism in Belize, assessing the rapid expansion between 2000 and 2005 and comparing these findings with the stayover tourism sector.

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 book, designed for lecturers, students and researchers in tourism and ecotourism practitioners, defines, describes and analyzes ecotourism in the less developed countries and its environmental and social impacts. Includes case studies in Costa Rica, Kenya, Nepal, Thailand, the Caribbean and the South Pacific.

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.

This EPA report aims to help local governments, water utilities, nonprofit organizations, neighborhood groups, and other stakeholders integrate green infrastructure strategies into plans that can transform their communities, and acts as a guide to develop a plan that can overcome current green infrastructure obstacles for neighborhoods, towns, cities, and regions of all sizes.

Latin American development politics include manifold interventions in rural areas, among them extractivist industry. Paradoxically, scholars have adopted the term neo-extractivism to criticise left-led governments' justification of natural resource use to provide welfare to the population. This research embraces neo-extractivism to understand socio-environmental changes introduced through tourism initiatives in Ecuadorian rural landscapes. While the case in the Pacific coast of Santa Elena relates the promotion of small-scale tourism in rural areas to enclave economies, the case in Ecuadorian highlands incorporating the Qhapaq Ñan project relates community-based tourism expectations with developmental practices. Ethnographic accounts and qualitative analysis reveal practices leading to intense use of local resources, commoditisation of material and immaterial resources at local level, and the social stress on development projects. In this way, a neo-extrativist gaze shed light on the intersection of rural studies and anthropological approaches of tourism in the Andes. 

Marine spatial planning (MSP) is a public process that should be participatory, transparent, adaptive, inclusive, and balance social, economic, and environmental needs. An MSP process that includes women and marginalized groups is important because it can help create jobs and economic opportunities in new and existing coastal and maritime sectors, and enable governments to meet their social targets and employment goals.

Marine spatial planning (MSP) is a public process that should be participatory, transparent, adaptive, inclusive, and balance social, economic, and environmental needs. An MSP process that includes women and marginalized groups is important because it can help create jobs and economic opportunities in new and existing coastal and maritime sectors, and enable governments to meet their social targets and employment goals.

Marine spatial planning (MSP) is a public process that should be participatory, transparent, adaptive, inclusive, and balance social, economic, and environmental needs. An MSP process that includes women and marginalized groups is important because it can help create jobs and economic opportunities in new and existing coastal and maritime sectors, and enable governments to meet their social targets and employment goals.