'Practical strategies for pro-poor tourism'
'Practical strategies for pro-poor tourism' is a collaborative research project of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism (ICRT), the International Institute for the Environment and Development (IIED) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), together with in-country case study collaborators. It is funded by the Economic and Social Research Unit (ESCOR) of the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
This work is a follow-up to a desk-based review of tourism and poverty conducted for DFID in 1999 by Deloitte and Touche, IIED and the ODI. The review identified a number of strategies for developing or supporting pro-poor tourism, but noted that these strategies had not been tried or tested. The recent work attempts to do that.
The project reviewed the experience of pro-poor tourism strategies based on six commissioned case studies. The case studies used a common methodology developed within this project. The case study work was undertaken mainly between September and December 2000, and the synthesis work in January to March 2001.
The case studies have been written up as seven Pro-Poor Tourism Working Papers (the experience of two community tourism associations - NACOBTA and UCOTA in Namibia and Uganda - is covered in two reports): The case studies are:
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1. Practical strategies for pro-poor tourism, Wilderness Safaris South
Africa: Rocktail Bay and Ndumu Lodge. Clive Poultney and Anna Spenceley
Summary
of working paper 1
No 2. Practical strategies for pro-poor tourism. Case studies of Makuleke
and Manyeleti tourism initiatives: South Africa. Karin Mahony and
Jurgens Van Zyl
Summary
of working paper 2
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3. Practical strategies for pro-poor tourism. Case study of pro-poor
tourism and SNV in Humla District, West Nepal. Naomi M. Saville
Summary
of working paper 3
No 4. Practical strategies for pro-poor tourism: NACOBTA the Namibian case study. Nepeti Nicanor.
UCOTA
- The Uganda Community Tourism Association: a comparison with NACOBTA.
Elissa Williams, Alison White and Anna Spenceley
Summary
of case working paper 4
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5. Practical strategies for pro-poor tourism: a case study of the St.
Lucia Heritage Tourism Programme. Yves Renard
Summary of case working paper 5
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6. Practical strategies for pro-poor tourism. Tropic Ecological Adventures
- Ecuador. Scott Braman and Fundacion Accion Amazonia
Summary of working paper 6
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We gratefully acknowledge the support of
the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in funding this
work. DFID supports policies, programmes and projects to promote international
development. It provided funds for this study as part of that objective,
but the views and opinions expressed are those of the authors alone.
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