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This Failte Ireland ecotourism handbook provides practical steps and guidance and resources for ecotourism businesses development and management.

This technical paper addresses the growth of private standards and certifications for fisheries and aquaculture businesses to meet current good practices and prepare for emerging issues in the marine industries.

This GAdventures tool provides information on the Ripple Score, a tool used for tour operators and destination managers to calculate and evaluate economic leakages from tour operator led trips.

The GSTC Destination criteria presents a comprehensive list of certification standards, indicators, criteria, and best practices for tourism stakeholder to use as basic guidelines for sustainable destination development and management. The GSTC criteria is organized into four main categories: management, socioeconomic, culture, and the environment.

The GSTC criteria for hotels and tour operators provides business owners with standards and indicators to effectively conduct sustainable planning while maximizing social and economic benefits for the local community, enhancing cultural heritage, and reducing negative impacts to the environment, as a basis for certification for sustainability.

This Government of Malawi set of guidelines focus on the creation and management of tourism concessions within Protected Areas with the development of a progressive relationship between co-management partners including local communities and tour operators.

This book provides an overview of scientific approaches to understanding the impact of tourist interactions with marine wildlife, consumer demand and management and legislative implications for marine conservation and tourism researchers and practitioners to achieve sustainable marine wildlife tourism.

This Green Destinations Standard is a set of criteria to measure, monitor and improve sustainable tourism policies and management of destinations and regions.

This High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy Report builds on the latest scientific research, analyses and debates from around the world, to showcase a balanced model for ocean management that achieves effective ocean protection, sustainable production and equitable prosperity.

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.