Determinants for tourism and poverty alleviation

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Autor(a) principal: Lima, Susana
Data de Publicação: 2011
Outros Autores: Eusébio, Celeste, Partidário, Maria do Rosário
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/47803
Resumo: In the last decade, commitment to tourism as a development strategy for the developing world has gained a renewed interest by governments and development organizations in the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals. This was established as a major priority by donors, governments, NGOs, national and international tourism bodies, bilateral and multilateral institutions, like the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). The purpose of this paper is to identify the main determinants that should be integrated in the international cooperation for development programs that use tourism as a tool for poverty alleviation. By way of a case study it is analyzed the role played by the UNWTO.Volunteers Program in this context examining if it integrates the determinants previously identified in the literature review. To accomplish the research objectives, data collection included: documental analysis, participant observation, and semi-structured interviews with UNWTO participants. While no evidences exist yet due to the recent implementation of the UNWTO.Volunteers, the findings suggest that if these programs manage to have a positive influence on all, or at least in some of the dimensions, then it is possible that it responds to some of the main determinants for poverty alleviation in order to reinforce the local communities capacity-building.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Determinants for tourism and poverty alleviation
title Determinants for tourism and poverty alleviation
spellingShingle Determinants for tourism and poverty alleviation
Lima, Susana
Tourism
Poverty Alleviation
International Cooperation for Development
UNWTO. Volunteers Program.
Turismo
Redução da pobreza
Cooperação Internacional para o Desenvolvimento
Programa UNWTO.Volunteers
title_short Determinants for tourism and poverty alleviation
title_full Determinants for tourism and poverty alleviation
title_fullStr Determinants for tourism and poverty alleviation
title_full_unstemmed Determinants for tourism and poverty alleviation
title_sort Determinants for tourism and poverty alleviation
author Lima, Susana
author_facet Lima, Susana
Eusébio, Celeste
Partidário, Maria do Rosário
author_role author
author2 Eusébio, Celeste
Partidário, Maria do Rosário
author2_role author
author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Lima, Susana
Eusébio, Celeste
Partidário, Maria do Rosário
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Tourism
Poverty Alleviation
International Cooperation for Development
UNWTO. Volunteers Program.
Turismo
Redução da pobreza
Cooperação Internacional para o Desenvolvimento
Programa UNWTO.Volunteers
topic Tourism
Poverty Alleviation
International Cooperation for Development
UNWTO. Volunteers Program.
Turismo
Redução da pobreza
Cooperação Internacional para o Desenvolvimento
Programa UNWTO.Volunteers
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