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TOOLKIT - with Recommended Actions for Creating a Sustainable Tourism Destination

Management
2008
This CREST toolkit summarizes the key issues to be considered, identifies actions to prioritize for action planning, and provides examples to inspire small communities to become more sustainable visitor destinations. The toolkit is designed for local community workers in cooperation with tourism organizations, and policy makers.

Tools and resources for implementing the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative

Environment
This One Planet Network repository of tools and resources supports the Signatories of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative to implement their commitments on elimination of single-use plastics, introduction of reusable models, engagement and collaboration with value chain stakeholders, etc., as well as at enabling additional tourism businesses and organizations to take action on plastic pollution.

Tourism and Biodiversity: Achieving common goals towards sustainability

Environment
2010
This UNWTO report looks at the relationship between tourism and biodiversity, and assesses the way that tourism can contribute to the protection of biodiversity and enhance its role as a main resource for tourism destinations.

Tourism and Conservation – Sustainable Models and Strategies

Environment
This Solimar International toolkit includes two different publications developed with support of USAID aimed at linking tourism and conservation in a sustainable way including six conservation models that link sustainable tourism, biodiversity conservation, and community development and a framework for responding rapidly to crises originating for tourism and visitation.

Tourism and Environmental Health in a Changing Climate

Environment
2018
This ISTI report presents an overview of the indicators framework for sustainable tourism to help destinations measure tourism’s demand for resources and climate change-related impacts, as well as monitor efforts towards transitioning to a greener economy. This research helps to measure the Invisible Burden in Tunisia, with a framework to be applied at the local and national level globally.

Tourism and protected areas: Comparing the 2003 and 2014 IUCN World Parks Congress

Environment
2016
This article presents a synthesis of cutting-edge issues, best practices, and inspiring initiatives relating to sustainable tourism. The paper highlights the role of different stakeholders from different corners of the world in promoting sustainable tourism practices.

Tourism and visitor management in protected areas: guidelines for sustainability

Management
2018
These IUCN sustainability guidelines provide information on key issues to help managers achieve sustainable tourism in protected areas, particularly in destinations facing large tourism numbers or overtourism.

Tourism and visitor management in protected areas: guidelines for sustainability

Environment
2018
These IUCN sustainability guidelines provide information on key issues to help managers achieve sustainable tourism in protected areas, particularly in destinations facing large tourism numbers or overtourism.

Ted Talk: Why aren't there more Native American restaurants?

Social & Cultural
Chef Sean Sherman serves up an essential history lesson that explains the absence of Native American culinary traditions across the continent, highlighting why revitalizing Indigenous education sits at the center of a better diet and healthier relationship with the planet.

Text of the Convention

Environment
2014
This CBD document shows the origins of the Convention on Biological Diversity with 3 main objectives of: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of the components of biological diversity, and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources.