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The purpose of this document is to provide governments with guidance and a framework for the development of policies for more sustainable tourism as well as a toolbox of instruments that they can use to implement those policies.

The Guide contains five chapters:

• Tourism and sustainability looks closely at what sustainability means for tourism and why governments need to address it; it introduces some key principles and an agenda for more sustainable tourism, framed around a set of 12 Aims
• Policy implications of a sustainable tourism agendaThe 12 Aims for more sustainable tourism are discussed in turn and policy areas relevant to each of them are identified
• Structures and strategies for more sustainable tourism looks at the right structures through which governments can work with others towards more sustainable tourism, and about the strategies that are required to develop and drive policies and actions; particular attention is paid to the relationship between national and local structures and strategies for sustainable tourism
• Shaping sustainable tourism looks at the process of developing a tourism strategy that embraces sustainability and identifies some of the strategic choices that need to be made. It looks at product and market selection,and introduces the tools that may be used to influence tourism development, the operation of tourism enterprises and the behaviour of visitors.

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