Draft International Guidelines on Sustainable Tourism Guidelines which seek to assist policy and decision makers and managers responsible for tourism and bidiversity, prepared under the aegis of UNEP and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

The guidelines cover a wide range of tourism activities -- including conventional mass tourism, ecotourism, culture-based tourism, cruise tourism, leisure and sports tourism – and make explicit reference to the biosphere reserve concept and the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, as well as to World Heritage sites. And in turn, a number of individual biosphere reserves and World Heritage sites are using the guidelines in promoting sustainable tourism projects at the field level. Website (URL) http://www.biodiv.org/programmes/socio-eco/tourism/guidelines.asp Publication Year 2003