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“Community-Based Creative Tourism” as a Strategy for Poverty Reduction

This paper has been extracted from a thesis research proposing a new tourism model for rural communities: Community-Based Creative Tourism. It includes a review of the existing literature concerning Community Tourism and Creative Tourism. Without compromising the identity, tourism provides an important impulse of enhancing culture and creating income which can support and strengthen cultural heritage, cultural production, and […]
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Banking on Protected Areas: Promoting sustainable protected area tourism to benefit local economies

While governments see protected areas as key to addressing biodiversity loss, protected areas are often overlooked in economic development plans and economic recovery strategies. One reason for this is that data gaps make it difficult to demonstrate protected area tourism’s far-reaching stimuli to national and local economies, especially in developing countries.
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Community-based and pro-poor tourism: Initial assessment of their relation to community development

Alternative forms of tourism development from its conventional approach such as community-based tourism (CBT) and pro-poor tourism (PPT) are proposed to be specifically relevant to alleviate poverty and facilitate the development of disadvantaged community members.
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Guidelines for community-based ecotourism development

These guidelines identify some general principles, and highlight some practical considerations for community-based ecotourism. They seek to provide a reference point for field project staff, and to encourage a consistent approach.
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Manual on Tourism and Poverty Alleviation – Practical Steps for Destinations

The purpose of this manual is to outline some practical steps, in simple language, that can be taken in tourism destinations to shape and manage tourism in ways which deliver more benefits to disadvantaged individuals and communities. It is not a general guide to tourism development but focuses on how to channel tourism income more effectively to the poor.
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Responsible Community Tourism Development Manual

What this project aims to do is combine the cumulative experience of decades of community tourism development from the international development sector with the experience from the private sector to provide advice and guidance with additional practical elements that are not included in other manuals.
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Toolkit on Poverty Reduction through Tourism

The theme of this toolkit is different ways in which tourism can contribute to poverty reduction. The toolkit outlines the foundation for poverty reduction approaches and how the International Labor Organization is involved in the context of employment stability and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Action on CBT is working to break the cycle of poverty by empowering communities through sustainable tourism.

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“Community-Based Creative Tourism” as a Strategy for Poverty Reduction

Banking on Protected Areas: Promoting sustainable protected area tourism to benefit local economies

Community-based and pro-poor tourism: Initial assessment of their relation to community development

Guidelines for community-based ecotourism development

Manual on Tourism and Poverty Alleviation – Practical Steps for Destinations

Responsible Community Tourism Development Manual

Toolkit on Poverty Reduction through Tourism

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