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threats are recognized and addressed. Four main characteristics of Caribbean tourism provide the rationale for this study: 1 …) Tourism is the single most common industry in the region; 2) Tourism is the fastest growing industry in virtually every … Caribbean country; 3) Tourism also is the most important and sometimes the only productive sector in some of these economies; 4 …
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This report includes the proceedings of the Seminar on Climate Change and Severe Weather Events in the Caribbean and Asia, held in Barbados at the Grand Barbados Beach Resort on July 24-25, 2003. The seminar provided a forum in which experts from the Southeast Asian and Caribbean regions...
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In this technical note, the authors present the effects of climate change on tourism development in the Caribbean … decision makers in the tourism sector, climate change is a new strategic reality. Increasingly, institutional investors, banks …
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The key question the research in this paper tries to answer is whether those four activities truly represent a viable economic alternative in Latin America's environmentally fragile hinterlands. Several cases in each line of activity are analyzed to determine the level and distribution of the...
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As part of a collaborative effort between the IDB's Environment Division and the World Resources Institute, this document discusses environmental mainstreaming considerations in the context of the four pillars of the Bank's Institutional Strategy: Modernization of the State, Social Development,...
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This presentation discusses the cost of impacts of climate change on the Caribbean. The response of adaptation will need to be applied towards an integral strategy to build on disaster risk reduction best practices and climate risk management. The response of the IDB to the climate change needs...
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This paper analyzes the trends and challenges of competitiveness and innovation in the tourism and telecommunications …
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The purpose of this guideline is to make practitioners aware of simulation approaches for the evaluation of tourism … feasible. For example, it usually is not possible to roll out a tourism-promotion program for a randomly chosen "treatment … simulation approach is useful for tourism impact analysis, what a simulation model for the economic analysis of tourism impacts …
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