Assessing Bedul Mangrove Ecotourism Using Green and Fair Strategy Empowerment to Fulfill SDGs 2030 Agenda for Tourism

Sustainability of Tourism and Ecotourism

Sustainable tourism is an aspect of sustainable development which was largely ignored until the mid 1990’s. The industry is one of the world’s largest growing, and generates considerable income and employment for populations. To ensure the Australian tourism industry moves towards sustainability and has a long term future it is vital environmental factors are seriously considered along with eco...

Strengthening Peace through ‘resilience’ in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Policy Brief: Resilience and the Sdgs

In September 2015, heads of state gathered at the UN general Assembly to adopt a new global development agenda, commonly referred to as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Earlier in July 2015, Ministers of finance had met to agree on the means for financing this new development agenda which replaces the Millennium Development Goals that reflected the development priorities between 2000 a...

Ecotourism and the empowerment of local communities

This research note considers ways in which we may better understand how ecotourism ventures impact on the lives of people living in, and around, the environments which ecotourists frequent. From a development perspective, ecotourism ventures should only be considered ‘successful’ if local communities have some measure of control over them and if they share equitably in the benefits emerging fro...

New INDEPTH strategy for the SDGs using robust population data.

2. Ecotourism and Other Forms of Tourism