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This CDIA article, focused on Baguio City in the Philippines, highlights improved wastewater management together with flood and drainage initiatives which are derived from a pre-feasibility study in the destinations by CDIA.

This CREST Fact Sheet considers the intersection of water and tourism to give a brief overview of the current situation, issues, and potential solutions in Grenada and the greater Caribbean.

This Ocean Conservancy article looks into greywater from cruise ships and its implications on the ocean while considering what can be done to help reduce greywater pollution.

This CDIA plan serves as a case study that includes a Project Preparation Study for the closure of dumpsites and the subsequent construction of a new sanitary landfill as well as a solid waste transfer station. This project in Cagayan de Oro City in the Philippines also resulted in the City Local Environmental and Natural Resource Office to prepare a 10-year solid waste management plan which including budgeting resources.

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 EPA report aims to help local governments, water utilities, nonprofit organizations, neighborhood groups, and other stakeholders integrate green infrastructure strategies into plans that can transform their communities, and acts as a guide to develop a plan that can overcome current green infrastructure obstacles for neighborhoods, towns, cities, and regions of all sizes.

This GEF report promotes biodiversity conservation with emphasis on biodiversity-rich coastal ecosystems through the design and implementation of innovative policies and models of sustainable tourism in Mexico at the national and the local levels.

This STI article educates about the waste and pollution resulting from tourism including its negative impacts, what's at stake from continued pollution, and steps to reduce tourism pollution. It features various case studies and resources in destinations including Mexico, Chile, Fiji, Samoa, Jamaica, Dominica, Barbados, and St. Kitts.

This IUCN report highlights the importance of biodiversity in hotels, and provides principles to integrate biodiversity-friendly actions into the design of hotel and resort buildings and in their daily operations.

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.