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This Institute for Outdoor Recreation and Tourism article presents a five-step process and other general principles for nature-based tourism project development.

This collection of country protocols by the CTO includes COVID-19 protocols for Barbados, Belize, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Maarten, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, and Turks and Caicos. The resource includes guidelines and checklists for safely resuming business operations and resorting tourism to the region.

This article uses the example of the Diamond Princess, the only cruise ship where the spreading of the COVID-19 virus could be traced, to analyze the impacts of infectious diseases in cruises and how to prevent cases.

This UNWTO resource offers three series guides and good practices to outline steps that the tourism sector should take to build back better, becoming more accessible and more competitive after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The CTO and the George Washington University (GWU) developed a Destination Dashboard for Recovery Template and Guide to support destination management organizations easily find, organize, and present timely information about COVID-19 pandemic health updates, industry performance indicators, and traveler sentiment data.

The CTO and the George Washington University (GWU) developed a Digital Toolkit for Tourism SMEs which provides guidance on how businesses can utilize digital resources to help in their recovery planning during and after the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.

This UN resource offers an interactive tool to view COVID-19 Funding for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) around the world.

This KPMG article reviews how the cruise industry has been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis and actions taken by the private and public sector to protect the cruise industry.

This UNWTO package offers guidance to both public and private tourism sector stakeholders in their COVID-19 pandemic crisis response by outlining UNWTO’s range of technical assistance and detailing potential areas of intervention, including impact assessment, roles and responsibilities.

This updated map presents country travel restrictions related to the COVID-19, updated regularly as the health crisis continues to unfold.