Social Entrepreneurship in Tourism

IUCN best practice guidelines on managing tourism in national parks and protected areas. It explains visitor impacts, adaptive management and capacity building, with case studies from around the world.

IUCN

Volume I of The Nature Conservancy manual for conservation planners. It explains what ecotourism is, its benefits and risks, and how to plan it so it actually protects the places visitors come to see.

Andy Drumm and Alan Moore

Volume II of The Nature Conservancy manual, focused on the business side: market analysis, product development, partnerships and financing ecotourism so it supports conservation over the long term.

Andy Drumm, Alan Moore and others

Case studies on overtourism in cities, events and nature parks: how residents perceive it, what it damages, and tools that ease the pressure, such as spreading visits across time and space.

Zygmunt Kruczek

A training resource kit for planning community-based tourism in mountain and rural areas. It uses a participatory method in four steps, discovery, dream, design and delivery, with exercises for facilitators.

The Mountain Institute