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  Building Nepal's private sector capacity for sustainable tourism operations: a collection of best practices and resulting business benefits

  UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, 2008

  This report introduces the Marketing Assistance to Nepal for Sustainable Tourism Products (MAST-Nepal) project and provides case studies outlining the actions of project companies to integrate sustainable tourism principles.
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  Tourism and sustainability in Brazil - tourism value chain in Porto de Galinhas, Northeast Brazil

  Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006

  This report focuses on the tourism industry in Brazil. Using the case study of Porto de Galinhas, a small village in Brazil’s Northeast, the authors analyse sustainability issues in the tourism industry and map the value chain of tourism of Brazil.
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  Engaging neoliberal conservation

  Conservation and Society, 2008

  The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broader context of neoliberalism. This latest edition of Conservation and Society journal explores what can be gained by seeing conservation through a neoliberal lense.
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  Tourism and sustainability in Brazil: the tourism value chain in Porto de Galinhas, Northeast Brazil

  Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006

  How can financial ‘leakages’ from tourism be limited in order to maximise the value for local economic development? This report maps the value chain of tourism in Brazil, and in a case study of Porto de Galinhas, a small village in Brazil’s northeast, to identify leakages and sustainability issues in the tourism industry.
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  Making tourism more sustainable: a guide for policy makers

  UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, 2005

  The purpose of this document is to provide governments with guidance and a framework for the development of policies for more sustainable tourism as well as a toolbox of instruments that they can use to implement those policies.The Guide contains five chapters:Tourism and sustainability looks closely at what sustainability means for tourism and why governments need to address it;
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  ICT Welcomgroup hotels: a green model for eco-tourism

  World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2005

  This case study presents a green model for eco-tourism as it is currently in place at the Welcomgroup Bay Island (WGBI) hotel in Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
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  Developing countries and the tourist industry in the Internet age: the case of Namibia

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003

  UNCTAD claims that the development of tourism may be one of the most valuable avenues for reducing the marginalisation of least developed countries (LDCs) in the global economy and that the use of internet technology and e-commerce represents a further opportunity for developing countries to improve their economic position relative to the developed world. Through a case study of the Namibian to
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  Parks beyond Parks: Genuine community-based wildlife eco-tourism or just another loss of land for Maasai pastoralists in Kenya?

  Drylands Programme, IIED, 2002

  This paper provides an analysis of the Kenyan ‘Parks beyond parks’ programme which attempts to introduce a community based social component to their parks management policies by allowing locals to establish eco-tourism projects adjacent to parks.
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  Community-based eco-tourism on the Wild Coast, South Africa: the case of the Amadiba Trail

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  This paper investigates the origins and current operation of the Amadiba Horse and Hiking Trail, a community-based initiative located on South Africa's Wild Coast. The trail project presents itself as a people-centred, designed to involve the Amadiba people in all aspects of running a project including planning, implementation, management and decision making.
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  Report on the institutional development of the Ecotourism Initiative Groups in the pilot regions of the BCEG Project

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This document reports on a pilot project of the Central Balkan and Rila National Parks, that aimed to create business opportunities for local entrepreneurs offering eco-tourism services.

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