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This CRC report presents a design and assessment model to assist tourism operators to manage low-impact nature-based sustainable tourism facilities in remote areas. Derived by studies conducted in Australia and informed by indigenous groups, the report provides design guidelines for facility infrastructure, and a framework for environmentally sustainable technology for energy, water and waste management systems.

The Better Travel & Tourism, Better World Report was produced by Systemiq in partnership with the Sustainable Tourism Global Centre, and in consultation with members of the travel and tourism (T&T) industry to explore how travel and tourism could accelerate its transition to a net-zero, nature and community-positive future. The work received invaluable, extensive inputs from individual industry players as well as from industry aggregators, allowing Systemiq to develop an independent vision, objective fact-base and prioritized action plan for the industry. The Better Travel & Tourism, Better World report is part of a series of system transformation reports produced by Systemiq, including Better Business, Better World and Better Finance, Better Built Environment.

This IUCN publication is designed to guide the sustainable use of biological resources in the day-to-day operations of hotels and to complement the many tools already available to help reduce environmental impacts in hotel operations.

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 World Bank report outlines the importance of data and tools in Marine Spatial Planning (MSP), examines different aspects data and tools, general challenges and identifies how project managers, planners and implementers can support and add value to MSP projects. The report further presents MSP data categories, data gaps, various MSP tools and data services, and opportunity areas for engagement.

This Norwegian Government plan presents an updated strategy for blue opportunities to build upon the government's ocean strategy while engaging the private sector for a sustainable ocean economy.

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.

Small island developing states and small tourism-dependent coastal states have been the most gravely impacted by global climate and Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic crises and are expected to face even greater economic and social challenges in the years to come. While information and research on sustainable and blue tourism in small island developing states (SIDS) does exist, it is hard to find, difficult to analyze, and challenging to turn into policy guidance. This guidance note is a synthesis of findings from a literature review of the inventory of blue tourism resources, consumer market research, and tourism trend monitoring undertaken by the World Bank global tourism team since the start of COVID-19.

This toolkit, developed by Blue Ventures, provides practical guidance in setting up and maintaining Locally Managed Marine Areas.

This National Association of Recreation Resource Planners paper presents known information on the carrying capacity of the environment to handle human use including planning agreements, and issues in capacity consensus.