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Ecotourism – model of sustainable tourist development

Stefanica, Mirela; Vlavian-Gurmeza, Maria - In: Studies and Scientific Researches. Economics Edition (2010) 15

cultural values. Among all the forms of tourism, ecotourism distinguishes itself through the strongest connection with the … fastest growth rhythm worldwide. Integrated in the sustainable development, ecotourism involves activities that directly …

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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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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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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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Protected Areas and Tourism in Lao PDR : Policy Note

World Bank Group - 2021

Conservation and tourism contribute to greener economic growth in many countries. Although protected areas have often been viewed as land excluded from economic development for the purposes of environmental conservation, many countries have realized their powerful economic potential through...

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Colaborarea transfrontalieră Moldova - România : materialele proiectului "Dezvoltarea durabilă a communităţilor din valea râului prut"

Jigău, Gh. (contributor) - 1999

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Conservation and community-based development through ecotourism in the temperate rainforest of southern Chile

McAlpin, Maria - In: Policy Sciences 41 (2008) 1, pp. 51-69

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Le modèle vertueux de l’écotourisme : mythe ou réalité ? L’exemple d’Anakao et Ifaty-Mangily à Madagascar

Chaboud, Christian; Méral, Philippe; Andrianambinina, … - In: Mondes en développement 125 (2004) 1, pp. 11-32

Ecotourism is an activity considered by most stakeholders as a means to achieve conservation and valorisation of … to confirm the presumed virtues of ecotourism, based on a study conducted in the southwest of Madagascar. The adopted … ecotourism activities observed in the southwest of Madagascar. …

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Spread and backwash effects in ecotourism: implications for sustainable development

Cater, Erlet - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 5 (2002) 3, pp. 265-281

Increasingly, ecotourism is advocated not only as a form of sustainable tourism, but also for the contribution that it … ecotourism can make towards sustainable livelihoods, and it is being advocated as a pro-poor strategy in the developing countries …. Ecotourism must not, however, be considered in a vacuum, isolated from all other forms of economic activity. It is vital to set …

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