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.
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.
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.
This Skimmer on Marine Ecosystems and Management article provides an overview on the impacts of marine plastic on the blue economy, evaluating the economic cost of marine plastic and its impact on different sectors.
These Airbnb guidelines were created in consultation with World Animal Protection, an organization committed to improving the lives of animals. They apply to Airbnb visitor experiences involving wild animals in the wild and in captivity, as well as domesticated animals under human care.
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