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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.

The Climate Neutral Now Initiative is one of several initiatives launched by the UNFCCC secretariat to increase climate action by engaging non-Party stakeholders (sub-national governments, companies, organizations, individuals). This tool is used for awareness-raising, capacity building, partnership developing, promoting and facilitating the estimation of carbon footprints, the reduction of those footprints, and voluntary compensation (offsetting).

This research article provides a report on research assessing the extent to which tourism contributes towards biodiversity financing for Protected Areas management in southern African countries.

This Routledge book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to review issues surrounding coral reef tourism management. It incorporates coral reef science, management, conservation and tourism perspectives and takes a global perspective of coral reef tourism issues covering many of the world’s most significant coral reef destinations.

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.

This PATA compendium of tools and resources provides guidance to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic including case studies, communication strategy, a crisis communication planner, aviation kit, hospitality kit, tour operator kit, SME kit, and printable COVID-19 signage.

This book provides an overview of the cruise industry covering topics and issues including economics, corporate social responsibility, passenger health and wellbeing, cruise workforce, marketing, the social and natural environment, planning and management, infrastructure, risk management, and the future of the industry.

This book considers the limited economic benefits of cruise tourism, its environmental and social impacts, and the effects of climate change and overtourism.

This IFC report evaluates ecolodges to determine whether the environmental impacts and financial performance are sufficiently positive to justify IFC’s investing in them as part of its sustainable development mission. The report also provides potential ecolodge business models.

This CABI book uses case studies and regional overviews to understand the impact of ecotourism on communities and ecosystems in the United States and Latin America through the perspective of scholars, practitioners, tour operators, and policy makers.