UNEP Announces Two New Publications

A Manual for Water and Waste Management: What the Tourism Industry Can Do to Improve Its Performance

The manual looks at solid waste and water management and provides guidelines and examples of how tourism operations can achieve positive results and minimize harm to a community's ecological and physical systems. Specific case studies highlight larger hotel chains, which have already implemented environmental management systems but the main focus is on SMEs in developing countries, Small Island Developing States and developing tourism destinations.

The publication can be ordered or downloaded as pdf at:
http://www.uneptie.org/pc/tourism/library/waste_manual.htm

Tourism and Biodiversity: Mapping Tourism's Global Footprint

The publication, jointly released by UNEP and Conservation International, illustrates the overlap between tourism development (present and forecasted) and biodiversity hotspots , and in particular highlights tourism related threats and opportunities for biodiversity conservation and improved human welfare. A series of maps that plot tourism and socio-economic data against priority biodiversity illustrate the relationship between tourism development, biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction at the global level.

The publication can be downloaded as pdf on the UNEP website at:
http://www.uneptie.org/pc/tourism/library/mapping_tourism.htm

For more information on tourism visit: http://www.uneptie.org/pc/tourism/home.htm

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