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This CBD, UNEP, and UNWTO report provides stakeholders with the tools to make the tourism sector more biodiversity friendly and more socially just. It addresses the links between tourism development, biological diversity conservation, and development / poverty reduction.

This manual was compiled to provide a comprehensive reference document on traditional and non-traditional careers in tourism and where education/training can be obtained within the Caribbean region.

This USDA Forest Service guidebook is intended to help designers and recreation professionals apply the Forest Service Outdoor Recreation Accessibility Guidelines (FSORAG) and Forest Service Trail Accessibility Guidelines (FSTAG) to help agencies and organizations develop accessible outdoor recreation and accessible trails.

ATTA has publicly recognized the importance of increased accessibility in adventure travel since at least 2008, when the Adventure Travel World Summit in Sao Paulo, Brazil featured a concurrent session on Innovation & Best Practices: Serving Specialty Needs – Accessibility and Adventure. Although the travel industry is beginning to understand this and accommodate a wider range of people, there is more work to be done to understand how to make destinations and businesses most accessible. This post provides key insights through about accessibility in the full visitor experience cycle.

This book for private sector and academic stakeholders, provides a basic background of commercial adventure tourism products across a range of adventure tourism sectors.

This book provides case studies, good practices and guidance for private sector companies and industry practitioners to understand how to deliver a profitable and sustainable product for adventure tourism companies, with specific insights into technology, corporate social responsibility, climate change, and environmental impacts.

This Routledge book, created for tourism academics and for professionals involved in managing adventure tourism enterprises, examines the adventure tourism product, the adventure tourist profile, and provides a deeper analysis of issues including supply, geography and sustainability through a variety of case studies.

This one-year training programme supports individuals to become adventure guides in the Arctic region.

This book is an exploration of Arctic tourism, focusing on tourist experiences and industry provision of those experiences. Useful for destination managers and tour guide operators.

The primary goal of this study is to investigate the present coastal management plans for blue carbon ecosystem management strategies using content analysis of the local plans of select municipalities in the Philippines. The analysis generated eight (8) clusters based on keywords focusing on mangrove and seagrass ecosystems, namely: ecological profile, ecosystem services, carbon sequestration, tourism, natural threats, anthropogenic threats, laws, policies, & ordinances, and management activities. The results of this study can serve as a benchmark for local policy-makers in updating their present management plans particularly in branching their focus on integrated management of seagrass ecosystems and advancing technical capacity and knowledge on blue carbon ecosystems.