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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 World Bank report presents the main achievements and lessons learned during the 15 years of implementation of the Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCA) Program in Mozambique and how they led to the 2015 launch of the new MozBio Program. The main themes of this project include economic growth and rural development, landscape approach, innovative partnerships, legal frameworks, and engaging communities.

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.

This Green Destinations Standard is a set of criteria to measure, monitor and improve sustainable tourism policies and management of destinations and regions.

The GSTC Destination criteria presents a comprehensive list of certification standards, indicators, criteria, and best practices for tourism stakeholder to use as basic guidelines for sustainable destination development and management. The GSTC criteria is organized into four main categories: management, socioeconomic, culture, and the environment.

The GSTC criteria for hotels and tour operators provides business owners with standards and indicators to effectively conduct sustainable planning while maximizing social and economic benefits for the local community, enhancing cultural heritage, and reducing negative impacts to the environment, as a basis for certification for sustainability.

This article examines residents' perceptions of sociocultural impacts in the North Cape community in Norway, finding that residents believe the benefits of tourism outweigh the costs.

These UNGC Sustainable Ocean Principles provide a framework for responsible business practices across sectors and geographies focusing on ocean health and productivity, governance and engagement, and data and transparency.

This UNFCC agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels. Implementation of the Paris Agreement requires economic and social transformation, based on the best available science and works on a 5- year cycle of increasingly ambitious climate action carried out by countries.

These UNESCO "how-to" guides present best practice approaches to sustainable economic development through tourism which offer direction and guidance to managers of World Heritage tourism destinations and other stakeholders to help identify the most suitable solutions for circumstances in their local environments and aid in developing general know-how for the management of each destination.