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This World Bank Group report presents fourteen key characteristics displayed in most successful tourism concessioning programs.

This bibliography includes a selection of some of the core texts in the field of creative tourism from previous years, and a review of the most recent publications on creative tourism.

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.

This Travel Foundation report describes how destinations must uncover and account for tourism’s hidden costs, referred to as the “invisible burden”, to protect and manage vital destination assets worldwide, and gives insights into types of data-driven systems that can address growth issues and facilitate new forms of investment.

This set of guidelines was developed by the UNWTO Ethics, Culture and Social Responsibility Department, in collaboration with Indigenous leaders, with OECD input. The recommendations suggest specific solutions for the empowerment of Indigenous Peoples through tourism such as transitioning from “assisting” towards “enabling” indigenous entrepreneurship, fostering digital literacy for tourism businesses, and acknowledging the relevance of indigenous people and culture by the tourism sector.

Marine spatial planning (MSP) is a public process that should be participatory, transparent, adaptive, inclusive, and balance social, economic, and environmental needs. An MSP process that includes women and marginalized groups is important because it can help create jobs and economic opportunities in new and existing coastal and maritime sectors, and enable governments to meet their social targets and employment goals.

Marine spatial planning (MSP) is a public process that should be participatory, transparent, adaptive, inclusive, and balance social, economic, and environmental needs. An MSP process that includes women and marginalized groups is important because it can help create jobs and economic opportunities in new and existing coastal and maritime sectors, and enable governments to meet their social targets and employment goals.

Marine spatial planning (MSP) is a public process that should be participatory, transparent, adaptive, inclusive, and balance social, economic, and environmental needs. An MSP process that includes women and marginalized groups is important because it can help create jobs and economic opportunities in new and existing coastal and maritime sectors, and enable governments to meet their social targets and employment goals.

This comprehensive set of principles aims to help maximize the tourism sector’s benefits while minimizing its potentially negative impact on the environment, cultural heritage and societies across the globe.

This article takes a holistic approach to considering the consequences of marine plastic pollution through a literature review of 1191 data points to determine the global ecological, social and economic impacts. The reduction in ecosystem service provision found in the study is expected to have implications for human health and wellbeing, linked particularly to fisheries, heritage and charismatic species, and recreation.