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This series of UNWTO Investment Guidelines outlines how to enhance coordination and cooperation and mobilize global investment mechanisms to respond to a global crisis. "Enabling Frameworks for Tourism Investment" provides insights for understanding and enabling the conditions and barriers to mobilize tourism investment and so build a competitive, sustainable and inclusive tourism sector beyond the attraction and promotion approaches.

In accordance with Component 3 of the Improving Climate Data and Information Management Project, this report outlines in detail updates to observed variability and future climate scenarios for Jamaica since 2012. This report is a companion to several key reports produced within the last 10 years, including the 2012 State of the Jamaican Climate Report, the 2015 State of the Jamaican Climate Report, the State of the Caribbean Climate and the Third National Communication on Climate Change.

A tool for ecosystem valuation based on small payments made by marine tourists for each animal sighting and transferred directly to coastal communities. Project piloting in Morotai, Indonesia to help make a new marine protected area (MPA) by working with three local dive operators and three communities that are located in the centre of the MPA, at the most critical areas. By financially rewarding the communities for wildlife sighted, the communities are committed to work in monitoring of the MPA, environmental restoration, education and development of women enterprises.

The Towards a Future Tourism Strategy: Economic Recovery Tool for a Sustainable World Beyond the Pandemic meeting aimed to gather experts and actors of the sector to discuss strategies, collaborations and priorities on the vision of Tourism of the Future. The session engaged city governments and stakeholders to collectively discuss recovery focusing as much on social cohesion as economic recovery.  The main objective of the meeting concerned the implementation of sustainable practices to ensure that recovery is done with the good of the planet in mind.

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.

A description of sustainable tourism in the context of the blue economy as part of the Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals book series (ENUNSDG) in the Life Below Water section.

This study examines the implications of rising sea level on coastal tourism in Cape Town, South Africa. Making use of mean sea level data from permanent sea level markers, remote sensing and field observations, supported by key informant interviews, the study found that coastal tourism is under threat from rising sea level as well as other extreme weather events such as the increased storm intensity trigger massive waves and tides that result in storm surges, which overtop and encroach into the land surface area.

Using a case study of Olbia, a port of call on the island of Sardinia (Italy), this article shows the relation between cruise activity and urban regeneration process, namely the effects on city planning after the arrival of this type of tourism in port cities.

Tourism development has been promoted as an alternative livelihood to reduce the dependence of small island communities on declining marine resources. It is often central to emerging agendas around marine planning and the blue economy. However, relatively little is known about how communities perceive tourism development as an alternative and potentially sustainable livelihood in their area and its implications. This qualitative study tracks a governance system in transition and analyzes the factors perceived by stakeholders to be driving and hindering the adoption of tourism-based livelihoods on small islands in UNESCO’s Taka Bonerate Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve (Indonesia). The findings indicate that, despite a series of tourism-enhancing investments and initiatives and the positive attitudes of local communities towards it, tourism is not a direct route towards sustainability for small island communities. The benefits of tourism are perceived to be unequally distributed. The lack of education and skills limits participation in new job opportunities, and the incentives to continue destructive fishing inhibits livelihood transition to tourism. The article concludes that tourism cannot be assumed to generate simultaneous benefits for conservation and development without more equitable benefit sharing, the meeting of basic needs in communities, and addressing the drivers of unsustainable livelihoods.

This peer-reviewed article presents the bioluminescent “Blue tears” of Pingtan Islands, Fujian Province of China, as a focal point to analyze the interactions of local government and tourists and the responses of the tourism sector in co-creating Pingtan as a tourism destination.