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Why the travel and tourism industry should care about the state of the ocean

Tourism

In order to develop the travel and tourism industry in a sustainable manner, a thriving ocean must be at the heart of decision-making.

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Balancing Profit And Planet In The Ocean Tourism Industry

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Balancing profit and planet in the ocean tourism industry
A guest blog by Giulio Magni, director of One Ocean Foundation.

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Amsterdam could ban cruise ships to tackle overtourism. What are other holiday destinations doing?

Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism

Amsterdam is the latest tourist destination to consider banning cruise ships in a fight against overtourism and pollution.

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3 ways hotels and tourists can work together to decarbonize travel

Tourism

The hospitality industry has an unmatched opportunity to lead decarbonization in the travel and tourism sector.

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Overtourism: coastal management key as global traveller numbers return to pre-pandemic levels

Tourism

More people are travelling, and many are visiting the same locations. The UN World Tourism Organisation says the travel industry has been caught unprepared as millions flock to hotspots.

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Aquaculture tourism: An unexpected synergy for the blue economy

Tourism

Efforts are underway in Greece to diversify and promote aquaculture tourism to educate and shift public perceptions of fish farms

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Engaging the Tropical Majority to Make Ocean Governance and Science More Equitable and Effective

Tourism

The tropics are home to most of the world’s biodiversity and the majority of directly ocean-dependent people. These perspectives and knowledge uniquely valuable for identifying and addressing accelerating threats to marine ecosystems, and for understanding the limiting effects of systemic inequities in governance.

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UNWTO and MSC Foundation to Deliver Sustainable Tourism Education at Sea

Tourism

UNWTO is working with the MSC Foundation to deliver a series of sustainability-related education courses on board the MSC Euribia cruise ship.

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Healthy And Productive Oceans For Sustainable Development

Tourism

Ocean-based natural capital valued at US$24 billion faces serious threats from pollution, global warming, mangrove destruction and overexploitation of ocean resources. 

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Trade and Environment Review 2023

Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism

The Trade and Environment Review 2023 analyses the impacts of human activities and global crises on the ocean economy, which includes traditional sectors such as fishing and shipping, as well as emerging ones like offshore wind energy and marine biotechnology.

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Countries must forge ‘Global Blue Deal’ to protect the ocean: UNCTAD

Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports Tourism

The ocean can provide vast opportunities for developing countries to build more innovative and resilient economies, but climate change, pollution and overfishing threaten the livelihoods of some three billion people who rely on it for food and income.

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Bluer horizons: Putting coastal communities before carbon markets

Fisheries & Aquaculture Tourism

Several partnerships are looking to bring businesses and governments together to start protecting mangroves and other blue carbon at scale.

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Blue cities: how the ocean can be an economic engine for sustainable urban development

Tourism

Speakers at the 10th annual World Ocean Summit explain how embedding sustainable blue economic ideas into city planning can attract innovation, investment and tourism.

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BlueInvest: new investor report features an ocean of investment opportunities in the sustainable blue economy

Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism

Today, the European Commission is unveiling a new investor report, on the occasion of the BlueInvest Day 2023.

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Biocredits to Finance Nature and People

Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism

Biodiversity is degrading at alarming rates, and people living in biodiversity-rich areas often bear the heaviest costs of biodiversity loss and inequitable conservation efforts. Biodiversity credits, or ‘biocredits’, are emerging as a tradeable unit of biodiversity that can incentivise nature conservation and restoration to benefit marginalised groups living with nature.

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Ocean Conservation: A Traveler’s Complete Guide

Tourism

Travel guide for sustainable ocean travel.

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Behavioral responses to predatory sounds predict sensitivity of cetaceans to anthropogenic noise within a soundscape of fear

Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism

Why are some species more averse to anthropogenic noise disturbances than others?

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