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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 the results and recommendations of a cruise ship tourism study in Central America with emphasis on Honduras and Costa Rica. The report includes a variety of tools to help destinations address over tourism through strategic planning, good management, and impact monitoring.

This CTO compendium includes tourism disaster and crisis management resources for the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean regions.

Reef-World, the team behind Green Fins, has created these guidelines to help Green Fins members deal with chemical cleaning agents in an environmentally friendly way. These recommendations are a consolidation of known best practice around the safe management and disposal of hazardous waste and chemicals.

The objectives of the “Ecoblue tourism” project are to increase entrepreneurship opportunities in blue ecotourism in coastal countries through an innovative training methodology (within the framework of EntreComp) to improve the entrepreneurial skills of long-term unemployed youngsters who wish to develop their own ideas and businesses in this sector.

This article addresses the economic and social implications of the COVID-19 health crisis in the coastal community of Mahahual, Mexico. Dependent on cruise tourism, this community has to adapt workers and new spaces for exchange and community solidarity are created.

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.

The Gender Mainstreaming Guidelines for the Public Sector in Tourism contain tools to support national, regional, local and other tourism institutions apply an approach to tourism planning, programming and implementation that integrates gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.

The business case for advancing gender equality are well documented. In tourism, the benefits are further amplified due to the high proportion of women working in the sector. The "Gender Inclusive Strategy for Tourism Businesses" contains tools to support private sector tourism enterprises of all types and sizes achieve effective and consistent strategies and programmes for gender equality across their operations.

This comprehensive set of principles aims to help maximize the tourism sector’s benefits while minimizing its potentially negative impact on the environment, cultural heritage and societies across the globe.