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This chapter approaches overtourism as a means to analyse the impacts and limits of late capitalistic tourism development in and around the wilderness protected areas of the Galápagos Islands. Qualitative content analysis points towards three emergent themes: (i) rapid diversification of the land-based tourism economy of the Galápagos; (ii) political ambivalence towards the governance of tourism growth and conservation rationale; and (iii) radical shifts in online representation patterns of the Galápagos as a tourist destination occurring through branding and advertisements. Finally, a discussion is opened over the foreseeable outcomes of tourism saturation narratives implanted far beyond metropolitan localities and European urban tourism hotspots.

The 2020 State of the Cruise Industry report takes an in-depth look at the impact of cruising and the trends
we are witnessing across the industry, including environmental sustainability, responsible tourism and unique passenger offerings.

This UNGC report produced in consultation with over 300 stakeholders, identified five tipping points for a healthy and productive ocean that represent a set of tangible objectives to address ocean sustainability challenges.

This WRI article highlights 8 ways to build back with a stronger blue economy post-COVID including bluer blue tourism, reducing shipping emissions, avoid squandering a post-COVID-19 fish bounty, supporting mariners, stay the course on ocean parks, farming the sea to feed billions, digitizing the ocean, and not preying on the moment.

This CBD, UNEP, and UNWTO report provides stakeholders with the tools to make the tourism sector more biodiversity friendly and more socially just. It addresses the links between tourism development, biological diversity conservation, and development / poverty reduction.

This manual was compiled to provide a comprehensive reference document on traditional and non-traditional careers in tourism and where education/training can be obtained within the Caribbean region.

This report presents tools and structures that can help to reduce poverty and inequities, provide high quality local livelihoods, facilitate civic engagement, protect and enhance the environment and natural capital, and strengthen responsible tourism as an important and dynamic economic sector.

This Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia tool provides a simple online self-assessment for tourism operators to measure their own practices and work toward improvements, and includes ideas and best practices to enhance competitiveness.

This High Level Panel of a Sustainable Ocean Economy report examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ocean economy and the role of ocean-based solutions in supporting sustainable and equitable recovery to the crisis.

This WRI report examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ocean economy and the role of ocean-based solutions in supporting sustainable and equitable recovery to the crisis.