CENTER FOR ECOTOURISM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
With offices in Washington, DC and at Stanford University, CESD was launched in 2003 as a bi-coastal institute, offering programs, conferences, courses, and research projects at both of its locations, as well as field research opportunities. CESD uses policy-oriented research to design, monitor, evaluate, and improve ecotourism, as well as to promote sustainable practices and principles within the wider tourism industry. It focuses on ecotourism as a tool for poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation. It offers many downloadable reports, including Global Trends in Coastal Tourism (2008); Cruise Tourism Impacts in Costa Rica and Honduras (2006); Cruise Tourism in Belize (2006). Read more: http://ecotourismcesd.org/resources/reports.html