Tourism and Poverty Alleviation



Following the recent emphasis on poverty alleviation as a key international Millennium goal, we were appointed to work with the World Tourism Organisation on the preparation the publication Tourism and Poverty Alleviation – Recommendations for Action, which addresses 7 ways of channelling tourism spending towards the poor, identifies good practice from around the world and sets out actions for a range of stakeholders. This was followed up by a pilot mission to Ethiopia which we conducted.