To demonstrate best practices and strategies for sustainable tourism development so as to reduce the degradation of marine and coastal environments of trans-boundary significance.

The project has FOUR main objectives:

1. To capture Best Available Practices and Technologies (BAPs and BATS) for contaminant reduction & sustainable collaborative tourism  investments. This objective has three sub themes.

• Develop eco-tourism initiatives to alleviate poverty through sustainable alternative livelihoods, and generate revenues for conservation of biodiversity and for the benefit of local communities
• Implement and Evaluate eco-certification and environmental management systems for use by private sector and community lead investments.
• Improved reef recreation, management and monitoring mechanisms
  

2. To develop and implement mechanisms for sustainable governance and management that measurably reduce degradation of coastal ecosystems from land-based tourism sources of pollution and contamination

3. To assess and deliver training and capacity requirements emphasising an integrated approach to sustainable reduction in coastal ecosystem and environmental degradation within the tourism sector

4. To develop and implement information capture, information processing and management mechanisms to promote information dissemination & sharing.