Dicho sencillamente, el turismo sostenible puede ser definido como:

“El turismo que tiene plenamente en cuenta las repercusiones actuales y futuras, económicas, sociales y medioambientales para satisfacer las necesidades de los visitantes, de la industria, del entorno y de las comunidades anfitrionas”.
 

• Tourism cannot be singled out of the global response to climate change.‎
• The sector must be transparent and coherent and not forget the dual relationship between tourism and global warming, both as its victim and contributor‎
• While rising sea levels, desertification, deforestation or the melting of snow and glaciers hurt the tourism economy, the sector also contributes through its very existence to the warming process.

• Climate Change & Tourism
• Programme
• UNWTO
• Sustainable Development of Tourism

Wetlands are home to some of the richest biodiversity on the planet and the ecosystem services they provide play an essential role in sustainable development impacting directly the lives of millions of people worldwide, most especially the poor, who depend on the essential ecosystem services wetlands provide.