This chapter reflects primarily on the supply-side issues and on the reality of successfully harnessing tourism and achieving desired impacts in developing countries. Specifically, drawing on the experiences of the past three decades as well as a cohort of over 80 World Bank Group tourism-related...

The purpose of this chapter is to reflect on over 50 years of observation, engagement and practice of designing, implementing and monitoring tourism projects in developing countries. The focus of this activity was to use tourism to facilitate development objectives in these countries. Some...

This chapter examines the positioning of nautical tourism in the economies of Europe, as well as other development characteristics contributing to general economic development. It looks at the classification of the nautical tourism market, and explains sustainable development and the legislative...

This chapter illustrates the origins and ideas behind pro-poor tourism (PPT) by briefly illustrating issues and discussions related to tourism and development in less economically developed countries (LEDCs). This is followed by specifying the meaning of PPT and its origins; and showing the PPT...

This chapter establishes the centrality of community participation in the advocacy of tourism integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) (essentially ecotourism projects that explicitly aim to bring limited development opportunities on the basis of conservation) as sustainable...

Making an empirical contribution to the understanding of tourism as a development mechanism in poor regions and countries, this book looks at the successes and paradoxes of tourism in this role and considers why tourism as a catalyst for economic development can be a controversial device. It offers ...

This chapter concentrates on the development lessons for the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It discusses several characteristics that distinguish these countries from the other low-income countries and least developed countries and that affected their economic growth in the last two...

This chapter reviews the development policies that have been promoted by the Washington Institutions and implemented in developing countries within the framework of the structural adjustment programmes. It examines the lessons from the experience with these policies in light of the very successful...