This book reviews the important interrelations between the World Heritage Sites industry, local communities, and conservation work, bringing together the various opportunities and challenges for different destinations. It contains case studies and reviews new areas of development such as Historic Urban Landscapes, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Memory of the World and Global Geoparks.

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 tourism. The report stresses the importance of sound site management practices.

This United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization report contains case studies to highlight the intersection of World Heritage sites and SIDS.

This National Geographic article provides insight to the economic impact of wildlife tourism on marine mammals around the world and its growing popularity.

Tour operators in Australia are giving back to the Great Barrier Reef by repurposing their idle vessels and staff for coral restoration missions.

A partnership with a main commitment to create a transnational strategy for all year-round tourism in Mediterranean Island Destinations. The strategy aims to lead for sustainable tourism development in a collaborative manner, fostering dialogue, ownership, growth, innovation, and action and to help protect Mediterranean island destinations for future generations.

This includes components of inclusivity, sustainability, gender equality, safety, high quality, competitiveness, and digital applicability.

This analysis supports the coupling of existing frameworks on wildlife tourism and socio-ecological systems to identify strategies likely to maximize positive conservation outcomes of wildlife-based ecotourism (WBE) sites. These findings support the development of project and policy guidelines for WBE as a sustainable conservation-development strategy.

Wilderness Safaris sees itself as a conservation company that is built on a business model of providing high-end, premium-priced wildlife safaris in various locations in Africa. Dependent on functioning, healthy ecosystems for its long-term survivability as a business, it invests heavily in conservation efforts, both directly, with communities and governments, and with partners and competitors. It may be reaching saturation of the high-cost, high-priced, low-volume, luxury travel product in its existing locations; so to continue its growth, it is now trying to expand into East Africa, where the traditional safari approach by most providers has been a high-volume, low-cost, low-priced product. As a publicly listed company, can Wilderness Safaris find a sustainable growth path that will allow it to profitably expand its business and meet its shareholders’ interests while still achieving its priority purposes of protecting and investing in the ecosystems and communities on which its services are based?

This Routledge book provides an in-depth analysis of the rights and welfare of humans and wild animals as the two relate to one another within the sphere of leisure studies. This book provides a forum for future considerations of wild animals and leisure and a voice for animal welfarist agendas that seek to improve the conditions under which wild animals interact with and are engaged with by humans.

This collaborative One Planet, IUCN WCPA TAPAS Group, and PUP Global Heritage Consortium webinar brings awareness to the challenges of high levels of visitors in protected areas, reviews what has lead to this challenge and provides forward looking solutions to over tourism in protected areas.