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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 IUCN guide offers a user-friendly framework for the verification, design and scaling up of Nature-based Solutions through the utilization of the IUCN Global Standards for Nature-based Solutions.

This IUCN global standard aims to equip users with a robust framework for designing and verifying nature-based solutions (NbS) that yield the outcomes desired, in solving one or several societal challenge(s). The Standard is designed to support users to apply, learn and continuously strengthen and improve the effectiveness, sustainability and adaptability of their NbS interventions.

As part of IUCN’s Plastic Waste Free Islands project which promotes circular economy actions that demonstrate effective, quantifiable solutions to addressing plastic leakage from Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Searious Business is launching three zero plastic waste toolkits designed for hospitality, tour and cruise companies working in SIDS. These toolkits provide practical guidance on how to prevent plastic waste in the tourism sector.

This IUCN report presents five Biodiversity Principles for siting and design which focus on how biodiversity and associated social impacts can be better addressed in the planning and construction stages of the hotel life cycle. Thirteen case studies have been developed to illustrate how these principles can be implemented.