1. BIODIVERSITY AND TOURISM
DEVELOPMENT:
Updates from the CBD
15 November 2014
Montreal, Canada
David Steuerman
Programme Officer, Business and Biodiversity
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

2. TOURISM AND SUSTAINABLE USE
Tourism Event at COP 12
• Meeting on Biodiversity and Tourism Development (12 October) as part
of larger Business and Biodiversity Forum
• 30 participants from 12 Parties
• Participants included park managers, CBD National Focal Points,
various tourism and conservation interests, NGOs, researchers,
academics, and project managers and officials
• Four discussion sessions including:
• Panel 1 – Tourism Financing Protected Areas Systems
• Panel 2 – Integrating biodiversity into the development of critical tourism and
conservation hotspots: identifying criteria for priority-setting
• Panel 3 – Biodiversity and the challenge of blue/green tourism development
• Panel 4 – Tourism as an alternative livelihood for indigenous and local communities:
threats and opportunities

3. TOURISM AND SUSTAINABLE USE
Revision of CBD User’s Guide
• Discussion on CBD Guidelines and the User’s Manual and proposals for the
renewal of the latter:
• Manual should reflect previous and existing material and initiatives
• Be clear about the audience (local authorities)
• Who will be the users?
• Whose responsibility is it to implement the Guidelines?
• Take into account practical issues that affect tourism development and the private sector
• Give priority to improved communication and feedback
• Facilitation of voluntary reporting on implementation of the Guidelines
• Identify a small number of priority actions for CBD Parties to take
• Invite a wider range of players to cooperate on biodiversity and tourism development

4. TOURISM AND SUSTAINABLE USE
Revision of CBD User’s Guide
Proposed contents of the revised User’s Manual:
I.Status and purpose of the Guidelines
II.Tourism and biodiversity in context
III.Governance and management structures
IV.Baseline information
V.Plan formulation – vision, goals, objectives
VI.Tools/instruments for control and management
VII.Impact assessment
VIII.Management and mitigation activities
IX.Monitoring, reporting and adaptive management
X.Capacity building and communication

5. THANK YOU
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
413 Saint Jacques Street, Suite 800
Montreal, QC, H2Y 1N9, Canada
Tel: +1 514 288 2220
Fax: + 1 514 288 6588
Email: secretariat@cbd.int
www.cbd.int/business

6. THANK YOU
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
413 Saint Jacques Street, Suite 800
Montreal, QC, H2Y 1N9, Canada
Tel: +1 514 288 2220
Fax: + 1 514 288 6588
Email: secretariat@cbd.int
www.cbd.int/business