Urban and rural local development projects share common goals with tourism insofar as they aim to improve the quality of life, the attractiveness of locales and to increase economic opportunities and incomes for residents. In Santa Rosa de Copan a World Bank financed project has reinforced links...

The trend toward new tourism niches in Latin America and the Caribbean (hereafter, LAC) has brought benefits, but also costs to the region's indigenous peoples. As the World Bank social and environmental portfolios in LAC reveal, work with indigenous groups has frequently favored tourism as a...

As discussed in Hawkins and Mann (2007), the World Bank dropped its engagement in the tourism sector during the 1980s after twenty years of financing Bank's tourism projects which included infrastructure for resort sites, lines of credit for hotels, training, and some investment in hotels and...