Tourism and millennium development goals : tourism, local communities and development / edited by Jarkko Saarinen, Christian M. Rogerson and Haretsebe Manwa - London : Routledge, 2013. - viii, 241 p.

Includes index.

1. Tourism, Poverty Reduction and the Millennium Development Goals: Perspectives and Debates /Jarkko Saarinen, Christian M. Rogerson and Haretsehe Manwa -- 2. The UN Millennium Development Goals, tourism and development: the tour operators' perspective /Marina Novelli and Alexander Hellwig -- 3. The Grootberg lodge partnership in Namibia: towards poverty alleviation and empowerment for long-term sustainability? /Renaud Lapeyre -- 4. Tourism and development challenges in the least developed countries: the case of The Gambia /Richard Sharpley -- 5. Promoting gender equality and empowering women? Tourism and the third Millennium,Development Goal /Lucy Ferguson -- 6. The tourists of developmentourism - representations 'from below' /Joao Afonso Baptista -- 7. Can community-based tourism contribute to development and poverty alleviation? Lessons from Nicaragua /Maria Jose Zapata, C. Michael Hall, Patricia Lindo and Mieke Vandeschaeghe -- 8. Pro-iPoor Tourism: From Leakages to Linkages. A Conceptual Framework for Creating Linkages between the Accommodation Secfbr and 'Poor' Neighbouring Communities /Dorothea Meyer -- 9. Tourism Chains Pro-poor Tourism Development: An Actor-Network Analysis of a Pilot Project in Costa Rica /V. R. Van der Duim and J. Caalders -- 10. The effects of tourism development on the sustainable utilisation of natural resources in the Okavango Delta. Botswana /Joseph Mhaiwa -- 11. Balancing people and park: towards a symbiotic relationship between Cape Town and Table Mountain National Park /Sanettc Lacea Feneira -- 12. Can ecotourism contribute to tackling poverty? The importance of 'symbiosis' /Jim Butcher -- 13. Beyond 2015 - Rethinking the Nexus of Tourism and Poverty Reduction /Christian M. Rogerson, Jarkko Saarinen and Haretsehe Manwa

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Tourism--Government Policy
Poverty--Government Policy

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