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This UNWTO report gives an overview of tourism in SIDS and provides policy orientations, guidelines and other tools to the various tourism stakeholders in SIDS on how to address tourism challenges.

This report surveyed 30 tourism operators globally using the IUCN NbS Global Standard to assess how NbS are enabling destinations to take proactive climate action. The paper outlined 5 Principles for Effective Nature-based Solutions in the Tourism Sector with practical guidelines, action steps, and case studies highlighting action taken by industry leaders. With over 17 affiliate partners joining to amplify the important message behind the white paper, the research has been well-received by an industry that to date has little practical guidance for increasing investment in NbS at scale. Blue tourism operators in coastal destinations and the NbS they are using were heavily featured in this report.

This research paper proposes models and guidelines for defining and evaluating coastal cultural heritage to be included in marine spatial planning and integrated coastal zone management as a resource, learning from the experiences in management of other coastal resources.

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 National Parks Service guide provides detailed procedures to implement current laws, regulations, Executive Orders, Department of the Interior policies and guidance, NPS Management Policies 2006, and other NPS policy and guidance related to commercial services.

This UNWTO compendium for public, private, and civil tourism stakeholders, provides specific case studies demonstrating ecotourism in practice and illustrates how tourism operators are aiming to meet the principles of sustainable tourism in Asia and the Pacific

This UN report is a compendium of best practices for promotion of sustainable (eco)tourism which consists of 18 best practices in sustainable (eco)tourism initiated by governments, NGOs, and private sectors, in developing countries, including SIDS, with potentials for replication elsewhere.

This World Bank report presents the main achievements and lessons learned during the 15 years of implementation of the Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCA) Program in Mozambique and how they led to the 2015 launch of the new MozBio Program. The main themes of this project include economic growth and rural development, landscape approach, innovative partnerships, legal frameworks, and engaging communities.

Diversification into tourism is often suggested as a potential solution for the increasing concerns over globally declining fishing opportunities, particularly for small-scale fishers. Through the lens of psychosocial identity, qualitative data analysis from interviews with current and previous fishers in Cornwall shows how people are deconstructing and reconstructing their identities in the transition from fishing to tourism work, and that experiences of marine tourism diversification are dynamic, multifaceted, and embedded in social encounters. This article expands current discussions on work transitions by giving insight into the lived experiences of marine tourism operators from a psychosocial perspective, to go beyond the dominant economic narrative of diversification and social change, which has implications on how transitions into tourism work are facilitated.

This report examines how the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded and its devastating impacts on the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. Packed with international case studies, it takes the reader from the very outset of the crisis, how the industry reacted and its message to the market, through to its impacts and a possible future.