Barbados Tourism Mater Plan 2014-2023: Report II.
White Paper on the Development of Tourism in Barbados is the national guide for the sustained growth of the Barbados tourism sector to ensure that the sector leads economic growth, social progress and environmental sustainability.
WTO has been promoting the use of sustainable tourism indicators since the early 1990s, as essential instruments for policy-making, planning and management processes at destinations.
The study has explored how the local community’s involvement in the tourism activities under Community Based Ecotourism (CBET) can be increased through small interventions and partnerships.
The 'ProEcoServe' project assessed ecosystem services such as the provision of soil retention, shoreline protection, carbon sequestration and pollination, identifying almost US$1 billion of benefits in the four pilot countries of Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa and Viet Nam.