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The second fully virtual celebration of United Nations World Oceans Day, on 8 June 2021, will highlight the theme The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods.
Produced by the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS) of the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations, in partnership with non-profit organization Oceanic Global, and presenting partner Blancpain, supported by La Mer, this year’s annual event will shed light on the wonder of the ocean and how it is our life source, supporting humanity and every other organism on Earth.

This includes video recaps of: ocean discoveries, faces of the sea, a changing ocean, creating sustainable livelihoods, and blue economy & private sector impact

A toolkit on how to recreate responsibly around wildfires. This includes: Know before you go, plan and prepare, build a safe and inclusive outdoors, learn how to respond, respect fire, make it better, and communications tools.

Recreate Responsibly has put together a Water Safety edition, its first guideline focused primarily on safety, built collaboratively by experts in water-safety.

This toolkit describes how to recreate responsibly. This includes sections on know before you go, plan and prepare, build an inclusive outdoors, respect others, leave no trace, make it better, and communications tools.

In order to help more people #RecreateResponsibly to care for one another and the places we love, the Recreate Responsibly Coalition has partnered with  Yamaha's Outdoor Access Initiative and TreadLightly to help spread an understanding of shared stewardship while galvanizing resources to ensure equitable access to the outdoors.

Integration of sustainability labels into Mediterranean tourism policies.
LABELSCAPE partners have worked together to establish a robust - but not exhaustive - list of labels that can be applied to destinations around the Mediterranean. You can browse them online, on what is the first step of our multi-modular platform for destinations that want to work with certifications

The project aims to intervene at the peak of the growing curve of tourist flows, making sure that small towns in the Mediterranean maintain the highest tourist flows, averting any risk of alteration of their fragile ecosystems. The main expected outcomes are the planning documents to address tourism marketing to produce new methodologies and technological tools which contribute in the strategy focused on stabilizing tourism flows. Therefore, the outputs are addressed to preserve the heritage of such towns which otherwise would see their existence compromised by the effects of overtourism.

A partnership with a main commitment to create a transnational strategy for all year-round tourism in Mediterranean Island Destinations. The strategy aims to lead for sustainable tourism development in a collaborative manner, fostering dialogue, ownership, growth, innovation, and action and to help protect Mediterranean island destinations for future generations.

This includes components of inclusivity, sustainability, gender equality, safety, high quality, competitiveness, and digital applicability.

The mission of INCIRCLE is to enhance the sustainability and attractiveness of MED touristic insular and low-density areas through Circular Tourism, preserving the quality and availability of natural resources as well as improving the quality of life of residents & tourists. The INCIRCLE Knowledge Platform is an online tool that gives everyone the chance to "BE PART OF THE CIRCLE" and exchange already acquired knowledge, tools, methods and good practices in the field of circular economy applying to the tourism sector.

With the aim of supporting destinations to rebuild the European tourism sector, the European Travel Commission (ETC) commissioned a Handbook that explores mitigation and recovery strategies deployed by NTOs across Europe during the pandemic, with a focus on sustainable tourism practices.

The aim of the Handbook is to provide NTOs with strategic recommendations to follow the path to rebuild both the tourism industry and travel confidence and ultimately support the creation of a new tourism ecosystem. ETC trusts that this Handbook will foster knowledge sharing among destinations, strengthen Europe’s approach for recovery and pave the way towards a more sustainable and resilient tourism sector.