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This report provides an analysis of the road to recovery for the global travel and hospitality industry based on extensive quantitative survey and site behavioral data. It presents five distinct stages to recovery and includes business planning and marketing strategies for hospitality businesses, destinations, brands, and advertisers.

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.

This CDIA plan serves as a case study that includes a Project Preparation Study for the closure of dumpsites and the subsequent construction of a new sanitary landfill as well as a solid waste transfer station. This project in Cagayan de Oro City in the Philippines also resulted in the City Local Environmental and Natural Resource Office to prepare a 10-year solid waste management plan which including budgeting resources.

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 National Parks Service toolkit provides a list of solutions and tools that can be applied to address specific traffic congestion problems and issues in national park settings and uses a step-by-step process to solve congestion, based on adaptive management.

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.

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.

This report examines how the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded and its devastating impacts on the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. Packed with international case studies, it takes the reader from the very outset of the crisis, how the industry reacted and its message to the market, through to its impacts and a possible future.

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.