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This Marine Insight article describes the different types of pollution caused by ships including: ballast water pollution, air pollution, noise pollution, greywater pollution, blackwater/sewage pollution, chemical pollution, oil/bilge oil pollution, and solid waste pollution.

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 IUCN guide helps owners and managers of small and large hotels in the Caribbean to conserve nature through day-to-day hotel operations. This guide is meant to complement the many tools that are already available to help reduce environmental impacts in hotels, by using appropriate siting, design and construction practices, and by improving management of energy and water consumption, and disposal of wastewater and solid wastes.

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.

This UN resource offers an interactive tool to view COVID-19 Funding for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) around the world.

This study examines the terrestrial impacts – economic, social and environmental – of cruise tourism as they are viewed in Belize. It is based on field research, carried out in 2005 using academic protocols, involving over 600 surveys with cruise passengers and over 100 interviews with a range of stakeholders in Belize.

This research paper highlights fourteen wetland case studies to illustrate effective approaches in managing tourism for the wetland sector and is designed for wetland management authorities.

The Ecotourism Australia Ecotourism Standards certifies tourism products (tours, accommodations, attractions) with a primary focus on nature through a well managed commitment to sustainable practices that provides high quality nature-based tourism experiences.

This SPREP publication provides general guidance on the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process for coastal tourism development in the Pacific Island countries and territories. These guidelines are a practical instrument for measuring impact to coastal areas, coral reefs, marine and other terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity with the goal to support sustainable and resilient development goals.

This webinar presents information on how the City Nation Place Global 6th Annual Conference partnered with the Travel Foundation to offer destinations the opportunity of a COVID-19 pandemic recovery plan review through auditing plans for sustainability.