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This research paper proposes models and guidelines for defining and evaluating coastal cultural heritage to be included in marine spatial planning and integrated coastal zone management as a resource, learning from the experiences in management of other coastal resources.

This post presents the Travel Foundation united industry stakeholders in a ‘Destination Council’, empowering them to create a shared vision and actions for sustainable tourism following a tourism impact assessment of two Cabo Verde islands.

This article describes a community-based framework for combining different types of knowledge to address climate change. It builds on earlier work to develop and pilot a framework for addressing disaster risk reduction in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and looks at community participation in disaster risk reduction activities with a focus on Papua New Guinea.

This Routledge book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to review issues surrounding coral reef tourism management. It incorporates coral reef science, management, conservation and tourism perspectives and takes a global perspective of coral reef tourism issues covering many of the world’s most significant coral reef destinations.

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 book provides an overview of the cruise industry covering topics and issues including economics, corporate social responsibility, passenger health and wellbeing, cruise workforce, marketing, the social and natural environment, planning and management, infrastructure, risk management, and the future of the industry.

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.

This article disusses the rapid growth of the coastal urban centres in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa, and the impact of the coastal tourism sector including the producing vast quantities of pollution from untreated domestic sewage and posing a threat to the near-shore habitats such as coral reefs.

This Nature Conservancy manual provides a set of criteria to ecotourism planners and managers at conservation NGOs to facilitate decisions with respect to eco-tourism management and development.