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This USAID and EnterpriseWorks report is a guidance tool, presenting green market trends using the language, research findings, and market segmentation of U.S. based markets.

This Parks Canada toolkit for tour operators provides practical sustainability tips and guidance to tour operators and related tourism business owners and managers with a special focus on small- and medium-size enterprises.

This self-evaluation “Scorecard” is intended to guide a proposed tourism project representative to understand the foundational funding needs of their project from design, construction, and operation of the tourism project. This can be a useful tool for project managers to understand their project's funding needs and opportunities for improvement.

This Interagency Visitor Use Management Council paper reviews the management of recreation impacts to wildlife, including discussions of influential factors, impact indicators, and the range of management responses. This information is provided to assist recreation and land managers in avoiding or minimizing visitor impact to wildlife.

From 2014 to 2017, the National Park Service (NPS) Social Science Program (SSP) worked with RSG via a contract to develop and conduct pilot implementation of an in-park Socioeconomic Monitoring (SEM) program for the National Park System. This report describes the results of the pilot SEM program and presents an implementation plan for a long-term SEM program. The NPS SEM implementation plan includes specifications and rough order of magnitude (ROM) cost estimates for a Base Model and information about potential methodological enhancements to the Base Model.

This report synthesizes assessment findings and offers considerations and recommendations on next steps to determine when parametric insurance could provide a new source of funds to contribute to the repair of coral reefs in Florida and Hawai‘i.

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.

This proposed set of guidelines from the Organization of American States provides an overview of the structure, focus, benefits, and characteristics of Community-Based Rural Tourism in countries throughout the Americas (in Spanish).

This paper focuses on the development of a systematic data collection effort that allows managers to better understand the visitors to marine resource areas managed by NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (NMS). Through the National Marine Sanctuary Visitor Counting Process (NMS-COUNT), resource managers will gain valid and reliable data and data collection methodologies to advance predictive capability and understanding of visitors. While various federal and state agencies and Coastal Treaty Tribes collaborate in the management of coastal and marine areas, there is little compatibility in methods for estimating visitation. The NMS-COUNT process offers an iterative framework that allows local management and stakeholders to contribute to the understanding of visitor use at an NMS unit throughout each phase of the process. Building off the Interagency Visitor Monitoring Framework, the NMS-COUNT process focuses on visitation estimates and direct communication with managers and researchers to develop and implement the most efficient methodology.

This app guides players to classify coral, marine envirnoment and creatures. It is used by destinations like Hawaii to educate and engage tourist to understand and appreciate the value of corals.