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This blog describes the need of a healthy ocean to increase ocean wealth, and shares how increasing sustainability-focused investments in tourism can contribute significantly to the long-term wealth generated by oceans.

This World Bank Group article identifies different examples of Nature-Based Tourism Solutions being employed by the World Bank Group.

This guide provides nine tips for all actors involved in community joint ventures in tourism, including governments, the private sector, communities, banks, and nongovernmental organizations, to reduce risk and greatly improve joint ventures access to commercial finance.

This book examines the causes and effects of over tourism and provides insight on visitor education, traffic planning, and redirection to lesser-known sites for a variety of destination economies.

This report expands the socioeconomic benefit analysis of coral reefs and defines the role of reef adjacent tourism activities in tourism visits and expenditure.

This paper specifically looks at the role of private sector stakeholders in local ecotourism development in southern Africa. Recommendations are put forward as to how the private sector can further effect positive change in the areas where it is operating and ensure long-term sustainability.

This report synthesizes assessment findings and offers considerations and recommendations on next steps to determine when parametric insurance could provide a new source of funds to contribute to the repair of coral reefs in Florida and Hawai‘i.

This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on tourism development in a selected group of 17 small island economies during 1995-2018.

In this peer reviewed article, coral reef tourism is defined and the valuation of the of the sector is defined in both traditional financial metrics as well as tourist trip equivalents.

This peer reviewed paper analyzes the protection of marine ecosystems and the socioeconomic benefits provided by investment.