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The coffee crisis
Danish Institute for International Studies, 2002This document briefly analyses the factors behind the coffee crisis, and highlights some of the options available to farmers, producing country governments and the donor community.The author promotes the short-term solution of withdrawing low-quality coffee beans from the international market and asserts that solving the current crisis requires:improving coffee qualityraising the reDocumentTourism certification: an analysis of Green Globe 21 and other tourism certification programmes
WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2000The report examines a number of tourism certification programmes in order to explore whether certifications can contribute to sustainable tourism.The authors base their analysis on the WWF concept of sustainable tourism and the commission on sustainable development's guidelines on certification programmes for tourism.DocumentEnvironmental implications of the tourism Industry
Resources for the Future, 2000This report analyzes the environmental impacts of the tourism industry in the United States, where it is the third largest, behind only automotive dealers and food stores. In 1998, travel and tourism contributed $91 billion to the U.S. economy, supporting 16.2 million jobs directly and indirectly.DocumentFacilitating market access for South Africa’s disadvantaged communities and population groups through “fair trade in tourism”
World Conservation Union, 2002The report claims that the design, implementation and management of current community-based tourism initiatives in South Africa do not pay adequate attention to market access which, along with natural and cultural resource management, is ultimately the key to sustainable tourism.Tourism projects - guest houses, camping sites, lodges, tourist routes, shebeen tours, cultural villages and the likeDocumentCoastal tourism in the wider Caribbean region: impacts and best management practices
United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 1997The present report was carried out as part of the baseline information needed to guide the implementation of the Caribbean Environment Network (CEN) Project’s activities. The CEN project aims at improving environmental quality and the conservation of natural resources of the coastal and marine environment.DocumentTourism conservation and sustainable development
Department for International Development, UK, 1997This is the first, introductory volume of a report and case studies looking at the benefits and costs of tourism to national parks.DocumentClimate change and its impacts on tourism
WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 1999This study explores the potential impacts of climate change on tourism in a number of destinations.DocumentGetting the lion's share from tourism: private sector-community partnerships in Namibia.
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001In a number of developing countries, partnerships between the private sector and local communities are becoming more and more common, especially as communities are increasingly gaining rights to wildlife and other valuable tourism assets on their land through national policy changes on land tenure.DocumentPro-poor tourism: harnessing the world's largest industry for the world's poor.
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001In most countries with significant levels of poverty, tourism is significant or growing, which makes the industry a fact of life for many of the world's poor.This paper outlines the concept of pro-poor tourism and its potential contribution to poverty alleviation.DocumentThe tourism industry and poverty reduction: a business primer
Overseas Development Institute, 2002Millions of poor people live in places that are also tourism destinations. But many tourism companies claim that poverty reduction is not their business.Pages
