Created in November 2016 within the framework of the Interreg MED Programme under the name of BleuTourMed, the MED Sustainable Tourism Community has been renewed for a three-year period until June...

This Global Mangrove Alliance (GMA) report building on the inaugural 2021 report to highlight the GMA members and describes the revised goals of our Alliance. We describe important new research...

Open access, free resources by the Journal of Tourism Futures for this Special Issue of transformation and the regenerative future of tourism. Articles in this issue cover topics including regenerative...

The Nature Conservancy’s Blue Bonds for Conservation model helps governments unlock funding for conservation—and could benefit millions of people in coastal regions. Demonstrated by successful projects in Barbados, Belize and...

This CNN article presents the history of the famous Maya Bay, Thailand and the visitor management strategies and regulations  implemented to rehabilitate local ecosystems and develop infrastructure and systems for...

Resilience issues are explored in the context of different forms of tourism in a marine national park in eastern Indonesia. This paper uses an agency-based livelihood resilience framework to examine...

This review describes the main challenges preventing the tourism sector from achieving its development potential. We propose a framework to steer tourism in protected areas as a green recovery initiative,...

This report on Marine spatial planning (MSP) offers coastal countries a tool to address current challenges. MSP provides spatial mapping of BES and the threats they face, bringing together diverse...

Iberostar’s Coastal Health Roadmap responds to the third of Wave of Change’s five long-term commitments: ecosystems improving in ecological health. It establishes clear goals in critical areas of the tourism...

The Intrepid Foundation is supporting the Blue Carbon Lab to help restore natural coastal wetland areas around Port Philip Bay near Melbourne. The Blue Carbon Lab uses cutting-edge blue carbon...