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Open access, free resources by the Journal of Tourism Futures for this Special Issue of transformation and the regenerative future of tourism. Articles in this issue cover topics including regenerative tourism, transformational tourism systems, leadership, reciprocity, circular economy, gender, climate, and community development. Case studies from New Zealand, Canada, and Thailand.

The Nature Conservancy’s Blue Bonds for Conservation model helps governments unlock funding for conservation—and could benefit millions of people in coastal regions. Demonstrated by successful projects in Barbados, Belize and the Seychelles. The Blue Bonds strategy combines conservation finance with TNC’s science and marine planning expertise to help governments unlock funds at a scale that delivers against their conservation goals while also supporting the well-being of their communities and economies. The strategy is aligned with global goals to protect 30% of the world’s ocean, lands and freshwater by 2030.

This foundational textbook investigates the economic, environmental and social sustainability issues facing the hospitality industry today, and explores ideas, solutions and strategies of how to manage operations in a sustainable way. This updated fourth edition features: nature-based solutions and zero-carbon approaches, DEI and employee wellbeing, over 100 case studies, practical exercises, discussions questions and research project ideas based on real-life sustainability scenarios.

The Outdoor Industry Association founded the Climate Action Corps in 2020 to harness the power of collaboration to address the threat of climate change to the outdoor industry. Understanding that employees, shareholders, customers, and – most importantly – the next generations are expecting businesses to be the change. To date, 100 and growing Climate Action Corps members have demonstrated tremendous progress on measuring, setting targets, reducing emissions, and showed up in unprecedented numbers to demand equally bold policy action. Annual Progress Reports and collective highlights from 2021 are included in this progress update.

Use the Sustainable Travel International carbon footprint calculator to calculate travel emissions and purchase carbon offsets.

This CNN article presents the history of the famous Maya Bay, Thailand and the visitor management strategies and regulations  implemented to rehabilitate local ecosystems and develop infrastructure and systems for better visitor management.

ATTA has publicly recognized the importance of increased accessibility in adventure travel since at least 2008, when the Adventure Travel World Summit in Sao Paulo, Brazil featured a concurrent session on Innovation & Best Practices: Serving Specialty Needs – Accessibility and Adventure. Although the travel industry is beginning to understand this and accommodate a wider range of people, there is more work to be done to understand how to make destinations and businesses most accessible. This post provides key insights through about accessibility in the full visitor experience cycle.

The master class program has been developed to offer a practical training and skills development opportunity for tourism business leaders, conservation and development professionals, and other industry stakeholders engaged in tourism and community development.
An online learning series on sustainable tourism, including marketing, development, interpretation, education and development and management criteria. Each course is a concise expert talk on specific subjects.

This Blue Ventures, Seventy Three, Yayasan Barunasta and WWF Malaysia toolkit sets out a number of key strategic considerations that local communities, and their partners in government and civil society, might wish to take into account when deciding whether and how to develop a community based tourism venture.

This guide aims to help identify underwater cultural heritage, its potential, needs and threats, providing tools both for the evaluation of these aspects and for the responsible and sustainable activation of this heritage. The focus will be on the maritime heritage shared by the Atlantic regions and, in particular heritage related to the Napoleonic Era, the Spanish Armada, the World Wars and the migrations of the 19th century.