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Holiday footprinting - a practical tool for responsible tourism
Best Foot Forward and WWF-UK, January 2002
This report presents ecological 'footprinting' as a means for tour operators to estimate the environmental impact of their holiday products, and as a means of communicating the environmental impacts of their products to interested stakeholders within a wider sustainability framework. The report analyses two package holidays to two destinations in the Mediterranean - Cyprus and Majorca; provides an estimate of their relative sustainability; and presents a number of scenarios for lessening the ecological footprint of the holidays. A 'live' footprint tool that allows users to input their own data and observe the effect of potential improvement scenarios, is also available.
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Guidelines for community-based ecotourism development
The Tourism Company and WWF, July 2001
Broad guidelines highlighting key issues and potential pitfalls that need to be taken into account by field project conservation staff considering an ecotourism initiative in support of conservation and local communities.
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Preliminary assessment of the environmental and social effects of trade in tourism
WWF International, 2001
This discussion paper aims to identify and assess the potential environmental and social effects of trade and trade liberalisation in the tourism sector.
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Tourism certification
Synergy and WWF-UK, 2000
This is an analysis of a selection of tourism certification schemes with a strong focus on one in particular, Green Globe 21, with recommendations for how such schemes can be improved. Readers should note that the analysis of Green Globe 21 presented here relates to the 2000 standard: both the Green Globe 21 process and standard have undergone substantial revision since this analysis was completed. However, much of the wider analysis and recommendations are generic and still highly relevant to the ongoing international debate on tourism certification.
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Tourism and carnivores - the challenge ahead
The Centre for Responsible Tourism, 2000
An examination of the potential for tourism to support the conservation of Europe's large carnivores.
To find out more, visit www.large-carnivores-lcie.org/
Climate change and its impacts on tourism
East Anglia University , 1999
An analysis of the impact that climate change is likely to have on popular tourism destinations, from the Alps to the Maldives, with recommendations for the tourism industry. The report is available in three versions: technical, summary and colour leaflet.
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A Strategic Environmental Assessment of Fiji's Tourism Development Plan
The basic objectives of the study were to:
• Inform the mid-term review of the TDP in 2003 by assessing the environmental and sustainable development impacts of the current plan. This will allow the Ministry of Tourism and its partners make future plans as sustainable as possible;
• Test the usefulness of SEA as a tool for improving the sustainability of strategies and plans in the Asia-Pacific region, with a view to using it more widely in the region.
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