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Best Practice for Tourism Concessions in Protected Areas; Cases from Latin America

Management
2010
This report offers best practices and case studies for concessions in protected areas in Latin America.

Best practice model for low-impact nature-based sustainable tourism facilities in remote areas

Environment
2005
This CRC report presents a design and assessment model to assist tourism operators to manage low-impact nature-based sustainable tourism facilities in remote areas. Derived by studies conducted in Australia and informed by indigenous groups, the report provides design guidelines for facility infrastructure, and a framework for environmentally sustainable technology for energy, water and waste management systems.

Biodiversity: my hotel in action - A guide to sustainable use of biological resources in the Caribbean

Environment
2012
This IUCN guide helps owners and managers of small and large hotels in the Caribbean to conserve nature through day-to-day hotel operations. This guide is meant to complement the many tools that are already available to help reduce environmental impacts in hotels, by using appropriate siting, design and construction practices, and by improving management of energy and water consumption, and disposal of wastewater and solid wastes.

Biodiversity: My hotel in action. A guide to sustainable use of biological resources

Environment
2008
This IUCN publication is designed to guide the sustainable use of biological resources in the day-to-day operations of hotels and to complement the many tools already available to help reduce environmental impacts in hotel operations.

Building a Native Agritourism Ecosystem

Social & Cultural
2021
In this webinar, learn from the owner of DX Beef and The DX Ranch, Kelsey Ducheneaux (Cheyenne River Sioux), and how their passion to help their consumers reconnect with their food source has driven them to build DX Beef into a Native Agritourism Ecosystem and how their willingness to share their skills and culture with guests resulted in The DX Ranch.

Building and operating biodiversity-friendly hotels

Environment
2012
This IUCN report outlines guidelines and principles for building and operating biodiversity-friendly hotels around the world.

¿Indígenas transnacionales o nacionales? Tensiones entre el Carnaval Andino de Arica y el desarrollo turístico en la frontera

Management
2019
El presente artículo tiene como objetivo describir los conflictos que han emergido en el desarrollo turístico y las expresiones culturales ransfronterizas de base indígena que se manifiestan en la urbanidad de la zona fronteriza. Tomando como caso el Carnaval Andino de Arica, se observa que las prácticas indígenas reinventadas y reterritorializadas tensionan la identidad y la cultura dominante nacional. Para los organizadores, el desarrollo del carnaval debe alinearse con los intereses turísticos establecidos por las autoridades centrales a través de la estructura institucional y de planificación. Basado en un proceso de observación de las diferentes versiones del carnaval entre 2013 y 2019, junto con ntrevistas a diversos actores, los resultados demuestran que el desarrollo turístico del evento ha contribuido a la negación implícita de los vínculos de los indígenas de Arica con los países vecinos

‘Innovate’ Reconciliation Action Plan

Management
2020
The ‘Innovate’ Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) was officially endorsed by Reconciliation Australia in early 2020 and guides Intrepid in ramping up their commitment to reconciliation. The RAP is built around the four key pillars of: Opportunities, Relationships, Governance, and Respect. Each of these four pillars is broken down into individual actions, all of which are set against timelines, so the tour operator can make gradual progress towards a common goal and be held accountable every step of the way.

‘It’s a part of my being’: West Coast Trail guardians keep cultural history at the forefront

Social & Cultural
2022
The guardians of the West Coast Trail (four or five from each nearby nation) are there to help maintain the trail, and to protect and share their culture and the history of the land.

A 10- Step Quick Start Guide to Decarbonize Your Travel Business

Environment
2020
This quick start guide provides an easy-to-follow action plan on carbon reduction and offsetting, with practical examples and tips for other tourism businesses to follow.