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This year’s World Tourism Day theme, ‘Tourism and jobs: A better future for all’, serves to highlight the critical role tourism, and ultimately nature, plays in job creation.

Ticino, Switzerland: where the Swiss eat carpaccio

As Switzerland bundles up for the cooler months, there is a sun-drenched part of this country that offers scores of Italian history and culture. Here is how you can make the most of Ticino

Tourism and biodiversity :how to achieve common goals towards sustainability

The UNWTO side-event will present the work undertaken by the organization on tourism and biodiversity such as a UNWTO background paper on tourism and biodiversity, the activities developed within the framework of the YDB and World Tourism Day (WTD) and other global initiatives relevant for bio ...

Tourism and climate change threaten Lake Baikal, a unique global treasure

Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia is one of the world’s natural wonders. Deeper than the Grand Canyon, older than the Amazon Rainforest, as voluminous as all the U.S. Great Lakes combined, Lake Baikal is home to more species than any other lake on Earth, many of which are found nowhere else. Baikal ...

Tourism and the Natural Environment Symposium: Interrelationships, Impacts & Management Issues

23 - 25 October 2002, Brighton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Tourism concessions and partnerships in parks

CBD and SEMEIA are launching a publication on tourism concessions and partnerships in parks. The side-event and publication aim to mobilize stakeholders (park agencies and relevant networks) at the global level and to develop their capacity to work with the tourism sector, from training to tech ...

Tourism desperately wants a return to the ‘old normal’ but that would be a disaster

With each passing day, the grave future of Earth becomes more stark. The disruption of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) has not been enough to shift the trajectory, nor has it prompted polluting sectors of the economy to reconsider the harms they inflict on the planet.

Tourism is central to economies around the world.

Tourism is damaging the ocean. Here’s what we can do to protect it

What does the big blue mean to you? Is it a holiday destination, a source of income, as for the 60 million people working in the marine fishing industry, a vital protein source of 151 million tonnes for human consumption, or a home to millions of species? The ocean has a different meaning for ev ...

Tourism or permanent settling: Study shows different consequences for coastal fauna

Coasts are habitats for many endangered species and are therefore of great ecological value. They are also of great economic value, as humans use them in very different ways: for instance as areas of permanent settling or as tourist destinations. Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have no ...

Tourism zones in Pirin National Park threaten chamois population

WWF-Bulgaria is alarmed that the new draft management plan for Pirin National Park is further endangering the habitat of the chamois. The draft plan foresees an expansion of sport infrastructure that would be allowed on an area 12.5 times greater than what is currently allowed, or 7.5% of the Pa ...

Tourists are flocking to locations threatened by climate change. That only makes things worse.

“Last-chance tourism” is hastening the decline of destinations like the Florida Reef and the Galapagos Islands.

Traditional communities rally behind ecotourism to conserve their forests

When she was a child, Cruz Ávila used to walk through the forest as part of her daily routine. She would pick wood or medicinal plants. She learned to find birds hidden in the branches and to identify the different trees. She also found that walking among the pines and listening to a waterfall i ...

Travel Tourism Must Transform to Survive, Thrive

MADRID, Dec 4 2019 (IPS) - The travel and tourism sector, with its significant economic and social benefits, has no choice but to transform to survive and thrive in the face of climate change, said UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa at COP25 to industry representatives.

UNEP/CBD/ WSTOURIDG/1/1

Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/ WSTOURIDG/1/1/ADD1

Annotated Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/ WSTOURIDG/1/2

Report of the Arctic Workshop in the Indigenous Communities, Tourism and Biodiversity Workshop Series: New Information and Web-Based Technologies

UNEP/CBD/COP/11/INF/52/REV1

Tourism and Biodiversity: Review of the Implementation of the Guidelines on Biodiversity and Tourism Development

UNEP/CBD/COP/12/24/ADD1

Biodiversity and Tourism Development

UNEP/CBD/COP/12/24/ADD1/CORR1

Biodiversity and Tourism Development (Corrigendum)

UNEP/CBD/COP/12/INF/23

Biodiversity and Tourism Development - Additional Information on Tools to Apply the CBD Guidelines

UNEP/CBD/COP/4/INF/21

Biological Diversity and Sustainable Tourism: Preparation of Global Guidelines

UNEP/CBD/COP/5/20

Item 22 of the provisional agenda <br> Sustainable Use Including Tourism

UNEP/CBD/COP/5/INF/13

Sustainable Use including Tourism<br>Tourism and the Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity

UNEP/CBD/COP/6/12/ADD2

Results of the electronic consultation on the draft international guidelines for activities related to sustainable tourism development

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/4/11

Item 4.8 of the Provisional Agenda <br> Development of Approaches and Practices for the Sustainable Use of Biological Resources, Including Tourism

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/4/INF/9

Sustainable Tourism as a Development Option - Practical Guides for Local Planners, Developers and Decision Makers

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/8/11

Biological diversity and tourism: draft guidelines for activities related to sustainable tourism development and biological diversity and case-studies on the implementation of the guidelines

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/8/INF/8

Synopsis of existing case-studies on the implementation of the draft guidelines on sustainable tourism development in vulnerable ecosystems

UNEP/CBD/WG8J/2/INF/3

Draft guidelines for activities related to sustainable tourism development in vulnerable terrestrial, marine and coastal and mountain ecosystems

UNEP/CBD/WG8J/6/INF/4

Information Received from Non-governmental Organizations in Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council

UNEP/CBD/WG8J/6/INF/6

Report of the Arctic Workshop in the Indigenous Communities, Tourism and Biodiversity Workshop Series: New Information and Web-Based Technologies

UNEP/CBD/WG8J/6/INF/7

Report of the Pacific Islands Workshop on Indigenous Communities, Tourism and Biodiversity Workshop Series: New Information and Web Based Technologies

UNEP/CBD/WS-TOURIDG/1/2

Report of the Arctic Workshop in the Indigenous Communities, Tourism and Biodiversity Workshop Series: New Information and Web-Based Technologies

UNEP/CBD/WS-TOURIDG/2/1

Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/WS-TOURIDG/2/1/ADD1

Annotations to the Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/WS-TOURIDG/2/2

Report of the Pacific Islands Workshop on Indigenous Communities, Tourism and Biodiversity Workshop Series: New Information and Web-Based Technologies

UNEP/CBD/WS-TOURIDG/2/2

Report of the Pacific Islands Workshop on Indigenous Communities, Tourism and Biodiversity Workshop Series: New Information and Web-Based Technologies

UNEP/CBD/WS-TOURIDG/3/1

Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/WS-TOURIDG/3/1/ADD1

Anotaciones al programa provisional

UNEP/CBD/WS-TOURIDG/3/2

Report of the Latin American and Caribbean Forest Workshop in the Indigenous Communities, Tourism and Biodiversity Workshop Series: New Information and Web-Based Technologies

UNEP/CBD/WS-Tourism/1

Provisional agenda

UNEP/CBD/WS-Tourism/1/ADD1

Annotations to the provisional agenda

UNEP/CBD/WS-Tourism/2

Framework for the development of guidelines for activities related to sustainable tourism development and biological diversity in vulnerable terrestrial, marine and mountain ecosystems

UNEP/CBD/WS-Tourism/3

Overview of tourism and biodiversity issues, and appropriate management approaches

UNEP/CBD/WS-Tourism/4

Report of the workshop on biological diversity and tourism

UNEP/CBD/WS-Tourism/INF/1

Compilation and analysis of existing codes, guidelines, principles and position papers on sustainable tourism

Uganda’s mountain gorilla population increases

The global population of mountain gorillas has increased to over 1,000. According to a survey conducted between May and December 2018, the Bwindi-Sarambwe Nature Reserve, had 459 gorillas divided into 50 groups and 13 solitary individuals.

United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation 2020

12 September 2020, New York, United States of America

Uttarakhand Tourism to organise first-ever snow leopard tours; details here

Uttarakhand Tourism is all set to organise winter-special snow leopard tours for the first time in February. The snow-leopard tours are being organised in Harsil, a picturesque village on the banks of the Bhagirathi river, to promote wildlife conservation. Harsil is also dubbed the “mini Switzer ...