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Small island developing states and small tourism-dependent coastal states have been the most gravely impacted by global climate and Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic crises and are expected to face even greater economic and social challenges in the years to come. While information and research on sustainable and blue tourism in small island developing states (SIDS) does exist, it is hard to find, difficult to analyze, and challenging to turn into policy guidance. This guidance note is a synthesis of findings from a literature review of the inventory of blue tourism resources, consumer market research, and tourism trend monitoring undertaken by the World Bank global tourism team since the start of COVID-19.

This roundtable presentation enabled experts in sustainable tourism governance to present in detail how tourism can improve its governance, and how tourism can be more responsive to the issues related to both sustainability and the recovery of destinations hit hard by the spread of COVID 19.

The Portugal Ministry of Tourism developed a Clean and Safe stamp to recognize tourism infrastructures or providers that comply with the guidelines of the health authority to avoid risk of COVID-19 contamination.

This WRI report makes the economic and security case for the development of resilient coastlines, and examines trade-offs between coastal protection and infrastructure development. The paper illustrates that practical solutions exist which can be implemented to allow economic and infrastructure development, without compromising the integrity and benefits of coastal ecosystems or disadvantaging the people who rely upon them.

This CREST report highlights case studies to see how various tourism sectors both contribute to and are impacted by climate change and presents innovative tourism businesses that are providing solutions to addressing climate change with a focus in the Caribbean.

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.

During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a systemic change to the travel sector. Between April 2020 and February 2022, a diversity of studies, articles and think-pieces were published on this topic. In this resource, over 1500 sources are provided which are organized in 4 sections: Ideas to help resilience and recovery; Market research and intelligence; Impacts on tourism and destination; and Virtual tours and ideas to keep us inspired.

This checklist is designed as a practical and participatory tool to help implement and continuously improve practical action to prevent and mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in accommodation and food service activities.

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 briefing focuses on what we know about the short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our environment, approximately six months after large parts of the world went into some degree of lockdown. It considers what can be learnt from these effects and how they might help shape decision-making in the future.