Guidance for Best Management Practices for Caribbean Coastal Tourism

Island Resources Foundation. (1996). Guidance for best management practices for Caribbean coastal tourism. St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

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Summary
(From document) This report is designed to meet several objectives:

• To highlight the importance of tourism as an industry in the Wider Caribbean, and to illustrate the remarkably different significance of tourism among the states of the region.
• To review information relevant to the environmental effects of tourism-related practices.
• To present information on the needs for best management practices to reduce negative impacts on coastal ecosystems. This list covers a wide range of tourism services, but concentrates on design and planning issues because of their importance for the long-term.
• Guidance for achieving best management practice by governments and private sector leaders involved in planning, approving, building, operating, and maintaining tourism facilities impacting coastal areas. To provide a list of current references, biased toward coastal environmental planning and management processes.

Keywords
Caribbean, tourism facility design, operation, technology, coastal degradation, Cayman Islands, Netherlands Antilles, Anguilla, Turks & Caicos, Aruba, Montserrat, British Virgin Islands, Antigua & Barbuda, U.S. Virgin Islands, Bahamas, St. Kitts & Nevis, Barbados, St. Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Belize, Grenada, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Dominica, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Surinam, Guyana, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Cuba, Haiti, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, Columbia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, French Guyana, Guatemala, U.S. Gulf Coast, Honduras