As Onga e o Turismo Costeiro e Marinho: Contribulicoes para uma Gestao Participativa na ilha de Santa Maria, Acores
This case study analyses the role of environmental NGOs in managing sustainable coastal and marine tourism on Santa Maria island in the Azores.
Adventure Tourism: The New Frontier
This Routledge book, created for tourism academics and for professionals involved in managing adventure tourism enterprises, examines the adventure tourism product, the adventure tourist profile, and provides a deeper analysis of issues including supply, geography and sustainability through a variety of case studies.
Compendium of Best practices and Recommendations for Ecotourism in Asia and the Pacific
This UNWTO compendium for public, private, and civil tourism stakeholders, provides specific case studies demonstrating ecotourism in practice and illustrates how tourism operators are aiming to meet the principles of sustainable tourism in Asia and the Pacific
Community Nature-Based Tourism Development
This Institute for Outdoor Recreation and Tourism article presents a five-step process and other general principles for nature-based tourism project development.
Guidelines for Community-Based Ecotourism Development
These guidelines identify general principles and highlight some practical considerations for community-based ecotourism development.
Best Practice Ecotourism Development Guidelines
These Queensland Government guidelines provide background information and tools and key considerations that must be addressed as a first step in achieving best practice for ecotourism in Queensland’s national parks. Featuring case studies from Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia, Victoria, Costa Rica, and Namibia.
Tourism Revenue as a Conservation Tool for Threatened Birds in Protected Areas
Many bird populations worldwide are at risk of extinction, and rely heavily on protected area networks for their continued conservation. Tourism to these areas contributes to conservation by generating revenue for management. Here we quantify the contribution of tourism revenue for bird species in the IUCN Red List, using a simple accounting method. Relevant data […]
World Heritage and Tourism in Changing Climate
This webinar addresses the issue of the climate change and the tourism activities impacts of the World Heritage Sites. The report ‘Destinations at risk, World Heritage & Tourism in a Changing Climate’ provides an overview of the increasing vulnerability of World Heritage sites to climate change impacts and the potential implications for and of global […]
Big Data for Better Tourism Policy, Management, and Sustainable Recovery from COVID-19
This report discusses the trends, opportunities, and challenges in using big data and digitalization in the tourism sector. It highlights how big data is being leveraged for COVID-19 recovery and examines its relationship with statistical frameworks to better measure the economic, social, and environmental impact of tourism. Case studies of partnerships in Asia and the […]
Blue Natural Capital : Enhancing Business Outcomes and Sustainability of Coastal Tourism Markets
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic hit the tourism industry particularly hard, affecting livelihoods and exacerbating some pressures on the natural capital resource base. Supporting the tourism sector recovery is an opportunity to build back better, ensuring that business investments lead to a sustainable and resilient shared-growth pathway that is good for tourism and the natural capital […]