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The UN Environment Programme Financial Initiative Resources shared readers with reports, publications, case studies and data for financing in tourism.

The UN Environment Programme Document Repository provides information and resources related to blue tourism.

The Reef-World Foundation – the international coordinator of the UN Environment Programme’s Green Fins initiative – has launched new resources to help dive and snorkel operators who are continuing to keep an environmental strategy high on their agenda despite the many changes taking place for travel businesses as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The charity has also waived its usual £20 fee for its dive and snorkel centre Operational Handbook (encouraging operators to instead ‘pay what you can’) and is reminding dive professionals they can still take the free Green Fins Dive Guide e-Course to improve their environmental knowledge and skills.

The UNESCO World Heritage Sustainable Tourism Toolkit contains 10 guides and a comprehensive resource library for tourism stakeholders. Topics include foundational knowledge, strategy, governance, engagement, communications, infrastructure, value, behavior, investment, and monitoring.

The United Nations Global Compact enhanced library includes resources in human rights, labor and social sustainability, global governance, action for the global goals, environment and climate, sustainable management practice, and sustainable finance.

The Ocean Literacy Portal serves as a one-stop shop, providing resources and content available to all, with the goal of creating an ocean-literate society able to make informed and responsible decisions on ocean resources and ocean sustainability. Ocean Literacy resources to develop knowledge, skills, values and behaviours needed to create an ocean literate community. A collection of education and information resources, projects, tools, methods, reports, programs and materials regarding global ocean knowledge, useful to understand ocean processes, functions and issues. The Ocean Literacy Portal is a universal sharing platform. By sharing the world’s ocean knowledge, we are committed to building a global ocean movement to protect the planet on which we live.

EPA's Global Change Explorer (GCX) is a collection of web tools that visualize, compare, and provide access to spatial data that describe potential future environmental change. These data can serve as a starting point when assessing the vulnerability of air, water, ecosystems, and human health to climate change, land use change, and other large-scale environmental stressors. The data and tools in the Global Change Explorer are relevant across multiple scientific disciplines and environmental media, providing a foundation for integrated assessments of global change.

The UNWTO Global Tourism Crisis Committee presents resources and tools to support destinations and businesses navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and industry recovery.

In June 2020, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Sommet Education launched the Hospitality Challenge. This was designed to identify ideas and individuals capable of accelerating the recovery of the tourism sector in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance (GSTA) is a partnership of leading organizations in the sustainable tourism field working together with USAID Missions to apply a holistic and market-driven approach to sustainable tourism development. This alliance enabled its members (including leading tourism development institutions, conservation organizations, the private sector, and USAID) to combine resources, expertise and reach in exciting and innovative ways.