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This IUCN guide helps owners and managers of small and large hotels in the Caribbean to conserve nature through day-to-day hotel operations. This guide is meant to complement the many tools that are already available to help reduce environmental impacts in hotels, by using appropriate siting, design and construction practices, and by improving management of energy and water consumption, and disposal of wastewater and solid wastes.

This CDIA plan serves as a case study that includes a Project Preparation Study for the closure of dumpsites and the subsequent construction of a new sanitary landfill as well as a solid waste transfer station. This project in Cagayan de Oro City in the Philippines also resulted in the City Local Environmental and Natural Resource Office to prepare a 10-year solid waste management plan which including budgeting resources.

This book analyzes over 170 global case studies and shows what ecotourism can achieve and what constraints it faces, and provides a convenient and comprehensive reference for ecotourism enterprises, development agencies and university teaching.

This UNWTO white paper explores the need for a sustainable Circular Economy and provides a framework to guide a more sustainable, resilient and future-proof tourism development in line with the UNWTO One Planet vision.

Coastal Areas Sustainable Tourism Water Management in the Mediterranean is the first Interreg MED project supporting sustainable tourism policies & practices on water efficiency in coastal areas, has the overall objective to support sustainable tourism water management in Med coastal areas, by improving the monitoring and assessment of the water sustainability performance of the tourism sector.

This WRI report makes the economic and security case for the development of resilient coastlines, and examines trade-offs between coastal protection and infrastructure development. The paper illustrates that practical solutions exist which can be implemented to allow economic and infrastructure development, without compromising the integrity and benefits of coastal ecosystems or disadvantaging the people who rely upon them.

This USAID and OAS training resource for public and private sector planners, aims to reduce the long-term vulnerability of coastal infrastructure in the Caribbean region by expanding the capacity for appropriate design, construction and maintenance of coastal infrastructure works, through series of training courses.

This post presents the Travel Foundation united industry stakeholders in a ‘Destination Council’, empowering them to create a shared vision and actions for sustainable tourism following a tourism impact assessment of two Cabo Verde islands.

This briefing focuses on what we know about the short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our environment, approximately six months after large parts of the world went into some degree of lockdown. It considers what can be learnt from these effects and how they might help shape decision-making in the future.

This UN resource offers an interactive tool to view COVID-19 Funding for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) around the world.