• Climate change
• Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI)
• Marine Protected Area (MPA)
• Tourism Management

• English, Filipino

Joselito Costas is a sustainable tourism practitioner, trainer, and consultant specializing in communitybased ecotourism, sustainable marine tourism, destination resilience, and tourism governance. He has worked with local governments, communities, development partners, and conservation organizations in designing tourism programs that link biodiversity conservation, community livelihoods, visitor management, and enterprise development. He has served as facilitator and resource person for capacity-building programs on sustainable marine tourism, including initiatives involving marine protected areas and coastal communities around Southeast Asia. His work draws from practical field experience in community-based tourism, disaster risk and crisis management, gender-responsive livelihood development, and nature-based destination planning. Joselito is also a newspaper columnist and holds an Executive Master in Disaster Risk and Crisis Management from the Asian Institute of Management. His professional work emphasizes that tourism should not only generate income, but also strengthen local governance, protect ecosystems, build community ownership, and improve resilience in vulnerable destinations.