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This comprehensive set of principles aims to help maximize the tourism sector’s benefits while minimizing its potentially negative impact on the environment, cultural heritage and societies across the globe.

This UNWTO document provides a background on tourism and the COVID-19 pandemic, priorities for tourism recovery, and a set of global guidelines.

This UNWTO report is the first global assessment of sustainable consumption and production policy instruments in national tourism and aims to inspire stakeholders and encourage them to advance the implementation of the SDGs through sustainable tourism.

This is a compilation of data at the country, regional and global level on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism, alongside an impact assessment on the economic impact of COVID-19 crisis on tourism.

This UNWTO and One Planet Network repository aims to inspire further action from governments and the private sector in addressing issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic by highlighting tools and initiatives from stakeholders which are leading by example, as well as providing reflections of thought and opinion leaders on the challenges and opportunities for the responsible and sustainable recovery of tourism.

This UNWTO guide offers a collection of tools and methodologies paired with step-by-step systems that show local product developers and tour operators how to develop sustainable biodiversity-based tourism products intended for immediate implementation.

This UNWTO white paper provides high-level overview of recommendations by the Task Force on COVID-19 for recovery.

This Global Tourism Plastics Initiative report offers five recommendations that address tourism stakeholders with the aim of supporting them to continue fighting plastic pollution during the COVID-19 pandemic recovery.

The aim of these recommendations is to encourage tourism enterprises to develop their operations in a responsible and sustainable manner, while enabling those indigenous communities that wish to open up to tourism to take full grasp of opportunities that come along, following a thorough consultation process. The recommendations also target tourists that visit indigenous communities, and whose numbers are steadily increasing given the growth of tourism motivated by the interest to experience indigenous cultures and traditional lifestyles.

These UNWTO report recommendations aim to support governments, the private sector and the international community in navigating the COVID-19 emergency. The recommendations are divided into three key areas: managing the crisis and mitigating the impact, providing stimulus and accelerating recovery, and preparing for the future.