This important tourism and protected areas publication was launched at the World Parks Congress event on Monday 17 November 2014. The event was hosted by the IUCN WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group and UNDP

1. Book Presentation
The 2015 IUCN Sustainable Tourism
Best Practice Guidelines (ST-BPG)
Editorial Team
Dr. Yu-Fai Leung (Editor-in-Chief)
Dr. Anna Spenceley
Dr. Glen Hvenegaard
Dr. Ralf Buckley
IUCN WCPA Tourism and Protected
Areas Specialist (TAPAS) Group

2. The Need for Sustainable Tourism BPG
Tourism and protected area goals
Sustainable tourism in practice
Collaborative learning
Proactive and adaptive
management in face of changes

3. Past Editions of ST-BPG
First Edition: 1992
 McNeely, J. A., Thorsell, J. W., & Ceballos-
Lascurain, H. (1992). Guidelines: Development
of National Parks and Protected Areas for
Tourism (UNEP-IE/PAC Technical Report Series
No. 13). Madrid: WTO and UNEP, 53p.
Second Edition: 2002
 Eagles, P. F. J., McCool, S. F., & Haynes, C. D. A.
(2002). Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas:
Guidelines for Planning and Management.
Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 183p.

4. The 2015 Sustainable Tourism BPG
Tourism and Visitor Management in Protected Areas:
Guidelines for Sustainability
Goals
To provide a major update from the
last edition
To provide a key reference and training
guide for protected area managers
To engage TAPAS members and other
stakeholders in knowledge sharing

5. A Global Collaboration
58 section and case study contributors from 23 countries and
territories
James Barborak, Rajiv Bhartari, Maria Ana Borges, Kelly Bricker, Ian Bride,
Ralf Buckley, Robyn Bushell, Giulia Carbone, Lee Cerveny, Chih-Liang Chao,
Jorge Chavez, Mei-Hui Chen, Ivana Damnjanović, Sandra de Urioste-Stone,
Paul F. J. Eagles, Elizabeth Halpenny, Donald Hawkins, Kurt Holle, Anna
Hübner, Glen Hvenegaard, Delphine M. King, Lisa M. King, Lincoln Larson,
Yu-Fai Leung, Dau-Jye Lu, Robert Manning, Peter J. Massyn, Stephen
McCool, Kamal Medhi, Anna B. Miller, Mark Milstein, Luis Monteiro,
Jasmine Moreira, Debbie Mucha, Dani Ndebele, David Newsome, Young
Ng, Marcello Notarianni, Dan Paleczny, Jake Paleczny, Midori Paxton,
Mohammad Rafiq, Jianghua Ran, Sibylle Riedmiller, Therese Salenieks,
Erin Seekamp, Susan Snyman, Anna Spenceley, Richard Tapper, Andy
Thompson, Dashpurev Tserendeleg, Erik Val, Alexandra Vishnevskaya,
Chelsey Walden-Schreiner, Megan ElperWood, Dilya Woodward,
ChengzhaoWu, Xiaoping Zhang

6. A Global Collection of Best Practices
 Case studies on 45
countries &
territories
 Diversity of
examples across –
 Governance types
 IUCN categories
 Ecosystem types

7. The 2015 ST-BPG: Chapters
1. Introduction
2. Historical, cultural and geographic contexts
3. Governance, legislation and policy issues
4. Positive impacts of protected area tourism
5. Negative impacts of protected area tourism
6. Management principles and process
7. Management and monitoring strategies
8. Tools for tourism and visitor management
9. Capacity building for tourism management
10. Tools for sustainable financing of protected
areas through tourism
11. Future outlooks and conclusions

8. ST-BPG Online Resource Directory
http://iucn.oscar.ncsu.edu/

9. The 2015 ST-BPG
Project Website/Online Resource Directory
http://iucn.oscar.ncsu.edu/
Download the Review Copy of the 2015 ST-BPG NOW!
(feedback by 1 December 2014)
Published in early 2015
(English, German, French and Spanish)

10. Project Sponsors