Handbook for Sustainable Tourism Practitioners: The Essential Toolbox
With over 50 international expert contributors, this Handbook provides a user-friendly toolkit and step-by-step guide for investigating and addressing realistic challenges with modest timeframes and resources in sustainable tourism development and management.
Sustainable Tourism Implementation Framework and Toolkit
This ETC handbook provides European National Tourism Organisations (NTOs) at all levels with resources, toolkits and an implementation framework to support the development of national approaches that advance sustainable tourism development and management.
Ocean Solutions That Benefit People, Nature and the Economy
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.
Adventure Tourism and Outdoor Activities Management
This book provides case studies, good practices and guidance for private sector companies and industry practitioners to understand how to deliver a profitable and sustainable product for adventure tourism companies, with specific insights into technology, corporate social responsibility, climate change, and environmental impacts.
Commercial Services Guide: National Parks Service Commercial Services Program
This National Parks Service guide provides detailed procedures to implement current laws, regulations, Executive Orders, Department of the Interior policies and guidance, NPS Management Policies 2006, and other NPS policy and guidance related to commercial services.
Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet: Environmental, Business and Policy Solutions
This Routledge book provides an analysis of travel and tourism supply chains and business models for hotels, tour operators, cruise lines, airlines and airports and proposes environmental management techniques. A pragmatic set of solutions are offered to support the transition to lower impact tourism development worldwide.
Tourism in Protected Areas: Developing Meaningful Standards
This article evaluates “The Green List for Protected Areas”, a system of certification that has resulted from recognition of the need for global standards for protected area management and the relationship between conservation and tourism.
Sun-and-Beach Tourism and the Importance of Intra-Destination Movements in Mature Destinations
This study based in Mallorca (Spain), one of the Mediterranean’s leading sun and beach destinations, focuses on the spatial behaviour of visitors within mature destinations to provide useful information to destination decision makers in regards to tourist flow, visitor management and destination planning.
Status Report on Socio-Economic Aspects When Linking Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage to Blue Economy Sectors
This report gives an overview of socioeconomic aspects and other management issues when linking maritime and underwater cultural heritage with other Blue Economy sectors.
Coastal Capital: Economic Valuation of Coral Reefs in the Dominican Republic
This working paper looks at the benefits that coastal ecosystems provide to the Dominican Republic. The studies highlight the contribution of coastal ecosystems to the economy and the need for greater investment in protecting coastal and marine ecosystems, including better management of marine fisheries, protection of existing reserves, and enforcement of coastal development guidelines.