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Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods through Wildlife Tourism
Twining-Ward, Louise - 2018
Tourism is an engine for jobs, exports, and investments. The tourism sector is also the largest, global, market-based contributor to financing protected area systems. Nature-based tourism (NBT) is a sub-component of the tourism sector that includes wildlife-based tourism. NBT is a powerful tool...
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Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Urban Regeneration : Capturing Lessons and Experience from Japan with a Focus on Kyoto
World Bank Group - 2018
The World Bank Group (WBG) has long recognized that the restoration and preservationof cultural heritage, urban regeneration, and sustainable tourism can play a vital role in developing countries' efforts to promote local economic development, accelerate social integration, and alleviate...
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Tourism and the Sharing Economy : Policy and Potential of Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Accommodation
Bakker, Martine - 2018
Technology and digital platforms are disrupting the way the tourism sector operates from end to end affects low-income markets striving to leverage tourism for development impacts. Digital platforms, in particular, provide both opportunities and challenges for World Bank Group client countries...
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Developing Nature-Based Tourism as a Strategic Sector for Green Growth in Lao PDR : Synthesis Report
World Bank Group - 2019
Lao PDR faces a great opportunity to develop its tourism sector, in particular nature-based tourism (NBT), to create greener, more resilient economic growth and good jobs from its attractive landscapes and wildlife. Throughout the world, NBT is the fastest growing segment of tourism, and the...
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Enabling Ecotourism Development in Cambodia
Rawlins, Maurice - 2020
the ecotourism industry can create jobs and provide stimulus for rural economies and building livelihoods in rural areas … especially important now due to the impacts of COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Developing ecotourism can produce the revenues needed to … forests in the PAs. This report has been structured around the important issues and challenges that relate to the ecotourism …
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Twenty Reasons Sustainable Tourism Counts for Development
International Finance Corporation - 2017
The focus of this paper is on sustainable tourism's wider benefits, it is important to acknowledge that there are tradeoffs involved. Like other economic activities, tourism both gives and takes from communities and travelers. When it is poorly planned, tourism can negatively impact cities,...
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Opportunities for Environmentally Healthy, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula
Sanchez-Triana, Ernesto - 2019
Mexico to the world-renowned beaches of Cancun, just north of the second-largest barrier reef in the world. The peninsula … Environmentally Healthy, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula explores selected topics that aim to inform …
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Who Decides Social Policy? : Social Networks and the Political Economy of Social Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean
Bonvecchi, Alejandro - 2020
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Learning from the Mexican Experience with Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Energy-Dense Foods of Low Nutritional Value : Poverty and Social Impact Analysis
Bonilla-Chacin, Maria Eugenia - 2016
prevent and control it. In October 2013, Mexico's Congress passed legislation imposing taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages …
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The Importance of Safety Nets : Mexico's Leadership
Kim, Jim Yong - 2014
countries provide to their citizens. He announces supporting for Mexico's second-generation safety net program PROSPERA, which … economic growth. He talks about Mexico that played a crucial role in sharing lessons learned from its leadership in the sector …
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