The Global Tourism Plastics Initiative (GTPI), co-led by UNEP, requires national and local governments, private companies and supporting organizations in the tourism sector to commit to reducing plastic pollution and shift towards circularity by 2025. This guide shows governments how they can make tourism more sustainable. It sets out 12 aims for sustainable tourism and their implications for policy, and describes the collaborative structures and strategies that are needed at the national and local level.

Travellers on holiday can also take steps to reduce the amount of waste they generate while saving costs:

• Refuse what you can’t reuse
• Pack reusable and refillable items with you
• Spend and stay with businesses championing sustainability 
• This can gradually reduce local economies’ dependency on single-use plastic products.