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Tourism and Millennium Development Goals: tourism for global development?

Current Issues in Tourism, 2011
It is estimated that tourism contributes approximately 9% to global production and employs more than 220 million people across the North and South.
Jarkko Saarinen   +2 more
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Development Tourism

2016
Tourism in Cuba - described by Fidel Castro as 'the evil we have to have' - has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of development and poverty alleviation. The result is a remarkable approach to tourism, one which often compels tourists to become agents of development through solidarity. Drawing on her experiences of working in
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NGOs, tourism and development

2019
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have taken on a prominent role within the tourism industry to generate wider sustainable development. Their foundations and purpose can be conceptualized as being located with development as opposed to purely business and market paradigms, nevertheless they are often manifestations of private initiatives.
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Tourism development assesing social gains and losses

Annals of Tourism Research, 2001
Resident attitudes toward tourism, and perceptions of its impacts, are often diverse, with development often generating gains for some and losses for others. The net effect has been discussed conceptually for many years. This study illustrates an empirical evaluation of it, as well as of gains to tourists.
Lindberg, Kreg   +2 more
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UK tourism development

Tourism Management, 1988
Abstract This article traces the rapid development of tourism in the UK through the 1970s and 1980s. Technological and social changes have given rise to increased tourism demand and provision. Competition from continental Europe has been intense and the past 10 years have been a mixture of success and disappointment, progress and decline.
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Mountain Tourism Development

This study focuses on nature based sustainable tourism development in the Himalayan region of Darjeeling and other surrounding areas of West Bengal, India that affects tourist movement, protection of natural resources, and improves socio-economic conditions of local people.
Puspanjali Mohapatra   +1 more
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Indigenous tourism development

Annals of Tourism Research, 1993
Abstract Through colonial intervention, several South Pacific countries were catapulted from a decentralized village-based society to a centralized state in which the metropolitan power imposed its own legislation in a comprehensive way. Little account was taken of prevailing traditional values and practices as the Island countries leapfrogged much ...
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Tourism development

Annals of Tourism Research, 2001
Kreg Lindberg   +2 more
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