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This IUCN publication is designed to guide the sustainable use of biological resources in the day-to-day operations of hotels and to complement the many tools already available to help reduce environmental impacts in hotel operations.

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 collaborative IUCN, WCPA, TAPAS Group, and GSTC webinar provides an overview of certification tools and standards for managing protected areas.

This collaborative IUCN, WCPA, TAPAS Group, and GSTC webinar describe the guidelines for tourism concessions and partnerships in protected areas including examples of good practice.

This IUCN and Kuoni Group book is designed to help conservation organizations, community-based organizations and protected area managers plan and run effective ecotourism businesses based on results from workshops and interviews with tourism professionals, and business leader presentations.

This IUCN report provides guidance on key issues to help managers achieve sustainable tourism in protected areas.

This presentation explains The Mediterranean Experience of Ecotourism (MEET) group that acts as a Destination Management Organization and includes a target-oriented network of people and organizations managing ecotourism products built around the natural and cultural attractions of protected areas and local communities. Featured countries include: Italy, France, Spain, Jordan, Lebanon, ROWA, Malta, Cyprus, Greece and Tunisia.

This DestiMed and IUCN report provides a global review of current and past tourism monitoring and certification programs for tourism in protected areas and outlines the structure of a new monitoring tool to meet the needs of managers of protected areas in the Mediterranean.

This PAPACO course teaches about the sustainable use of natural resources and conservation as it relates to tourism in protected areas in Africa, introducing commonly-used methods to sustainably manage protected areas and their resources by considering the benefits and costs of resource use.

These IUCN sustainability guidelines provide information on key issues to help managers achieve sustainable tourism in protected areas, particularly in destinations facing large tourism numbers or overtourism.