Tourism, microfinance and poverty alleviation.
Material type: TextPublication details: Madrid, Spain : World Tourism Organization, c2005.Description: 62 p. : maps ; 30 cmISBN:- 9284408083
- 9789284408085
- 338.4791 WTO
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This publication, produced by the World Tourism Organization and PlaNet Finance, examines the impact of tourism in relation to poverty reduction strategies in developing countries through the use of microfinance options in tourism projects. The report considers seven different approaches for promoting benefits for the poor from tourism development (including employment options, provision of services and products and tourism taxation); the role of small and medium sized businesses; and financing tourism through microcredit schemes, using the example of rural tourism development in Morocco.
International year of microcredit 2005.
Recommendations to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and to microfinance institutions (MFIs)--T.p. verso.
PlaNet Finance.
Eugenio Yunis, World Tourism Organization ; Arnaud Ventura, PlaNet Finance.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-62).
Foreword -- Introduction -- Tourism in the world and in developing countries -- Tourism and poverty -- SMEs in the tourism sector -- Financing tourism SMEs and the role of microcredit -- Recommendations.