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Community Participation For Environment-friendly Tourism

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This paper examines the ways to enhance local peace through environment-friendly tourism. It identifies linkages among environment, tourism and local peace, looks at the trend of the tourism sector's role in peace-building and explores potentials and challenges of its engagement in building local peace in Nepal. The paper also presents two examples of community participation in tourism. It argues that peace, environment and tourism are all vulnerable to local conditions. In addition to meeting more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 19, 2012

Development Challenges, South-South Solutions: February 2012 Issue

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Development Challenges, South-South Solutions is the monthly e-newsletter for the United Nations Development Programme’s South-South Cooperation Unit (www.southerninnovator.org). It has been published every month since 2006. Stories in this issue: - African Afro Beats Leads New Music Wave to Europe- Venture Capital Surge in Africa to Help Businesses- Business Leads on Tackling Violence in Mexican City- Africa's Tourism Sector Can Learn from Asian Experience- Designed in China to Rival 'Made in more...

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David South on March 17, 2012

Guidelines for community-based ecotourism development

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Tourism is the world’s largest industry. It accounts for more than 10% of total employment, 11% of global GDP, and total tourist trips are predicted to increase to 1.6 billion by 2020. Inappropriate tourism development and practice can degrade habitats and landscapes, deplete natural resources, and generate waste and pollution. In contrast, responsible tourism can help to generate awareness of and support for conservation and local culture, and create economic opportunities for countries and more...

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D C on November 13, 2011

The role of sport tourism in employment, income and economic development

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Sport tourism is a new concept in the world having the most growth in tourism industry. Many countries enjoy an appropriate status with respect to sport tourism and, accordingly, contribute directly to their nation’s economic prosperity. Hence, the goal of this research is to compare and survey tourism managers, interest managers and tourisms’ ideas about creation of sport tourism-induced employment and income in Mazandaran-Iran. When compared with other studies, the present research indicates more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 07, 2012

Identifying ecological sustainability assessment factors for ecotourism and trophy hunting operations on private rangeland in Namibia

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Trophy hunting and ecotourism are important forms of sustainable utilisation in the human-impacted, working landscapes outside of formal parks and reserves. Research on the sustainability of such tourism operations, however, has focused on the financial viability of tourism operators, rather than environmental effects. This paper examines the sustainability strength of wildlife utilisation on private rangelands in Namibia in terms of ecological impact. Using grounded theory, 43 members of more...

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D C on July 03, 2011

Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2011

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The World Economic Forum has for the past five years engaged key industry and thought leaders through its Aviation, Travel & Tourism Industry Partnership Programme to carry out an in-depth analysis of the Travel & Tourism competitiveness of economies around the world. The aim is to provide a platform for multi-stakeholder dialogue to ensure the development of strong and sustainable national Travel & Tourism industries capable of contributing effectively to international economic more...

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Moushumi Biswas on March 07, 2011

Rwandan Tourism as Key To Mobilize Revenue And Investment

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Tourism provides the best alternative for economic development to Rwanda which does not have other potential resources unlike most other countries in this globalized world. The development of tourism can contribute a lot to this country through attraction of foreign investment and tourists, creation of job opportunities as well as contributing to the national income. Now Rwanda is recognized among the known tourist destinations in Africa; it is believed to be a developed place for tourists.

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Sonia Hossain on November 20, 2011

Linking communities, tourism & conservation

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According to the World Tourism Organization, “The development of sustainable tourism requires the informed participation of all relevant stakeholders, as well as strong political leadership to ensure wide participation and consensus building.This manual effectively combines standard market-based analyses with socio-cultural, natural resource use and environmental assessments. It not only gives you ready-to-use tools like worksheets and questionnaires, it clearly outlines how to use these tools more...

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D C on November 15, 2011

Global Report on Women in Tourism 2010: Preliminary Findings

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Women are almost twice as likely to be employers in tourism as compared to others sectors. Tourism also offers leadership possibilities, with women accounting for one in five tourism ministers worldwide; more than in any other branch of government. Nevertheless, women are often “concentrated in low-skill, low-paid and precarious jobs,” typically earn “10% to 15% less than their male counterparts,” and tend to perform jobs such as cooking, cleaning and hospitality, states the report.“This report more...

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D C on March 20, 2011

Antarctic cruise tourism: the paradoxes of ambassadorship, “last chance tourism” and greenhouse gas emissions

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This paper examines a paradoxical issue in tourism's adaptation to climate change and emissions reduction demands. Operators increasingly take tourists to destinations threatened by climate change, with Antarctica and other polar regions as favourites and cruise ship and aircraft as main transport modes. The selling point is to see a destination before it disappears, a form of last chance tourism. This has been claimed to increase the environmental awareness of tourists and make them more...

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D C on July 03, 2011

Tourism and biodiversity: more significant than climate change?

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2010 was the United Nations International Year of Biological Diversity. One of the goals of the international year was to gain a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss. This has not been achieved. Instead, biodiversity is continuing to decline at genetic, species and ecosystem levels while the ecological footprint of humanity exceeds the biological capacity of the Earth by a wider margin than at the time the 2010 target was agreed. Tourism is a factor in biodiversity loss and more...

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D C on July 03, 2011

The Grass is Greener on the Other Side

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This research explores why backpackers decide to leave home and why they choose New Zealand specifically as a destination. While there has been some prior research focusing on backpacker motivations, very little has looked at both the backpacker‘s decision to leave home and his/her destination choice. Furthermore, almost no previous research has looked at both aspects together within a New Zealand context. New Zealand is a popular backpacker destination and has a well-established backpacker more...

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Sonia Hossain on July 20, 2011

Utilising Tourism Potential in Combating the Spread of HIV/AIDS through Poverty Alleviation in Rural Areas of Botswana

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This paper analyses the potential of tourism in contributing towards poverty alleviation from a collaborative approach. Tourism is a viable sector in minimising the spread of HIV/AIDS and in combating poverty. This paper concludes that tourism has the potential to alleviate poverty among people living in poverty in rural areas of Botswana. This paper also concludes that poverty alleviation is imperative in the fight against HIV/AIDS.Tourism is an important economic activity in Botswana and it more...

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Sonia Hossain on June 12, 2011

Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals

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Maximizing tourism’s contribution as a main driver of economic growth and development, UNWTO is currently implementing numerous programmes to reduce poverty, fight gender inequality and foster sustainable development. The Sustainable Tourism-Eliminating Poverty (ST-EP) is UNWTO’s long-term programme aimed at reducing poverty through developing and promoting sustainable forms of tourism. To date, UNWTO has implemented over 90 ST-EP projects in 31 countries. UNWTO is also actively involved in more...

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Moushumi Biswas on June 29, 2010

Inhambane Tourism Integrated Development

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This case study describes the innovative mainstream approach used by SNV Mozambique to link the tourism sector closer to the local economy and basic service provision. It also examines how the tourism growth can be made more pro-poor and subsequently involves and increase the income and well-being of local people.

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Sonia Hossain on March 01, 2011

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