Inclusive tourism

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The Ogan­isa­tion for Eco­nom­ic Co-oper­a­tion and Devel­op­ment (OECD) defines inclus­ive growth as “eco­nom­ic growth that cre­ates oppor­tun­ity for all seg­ments of the pop­u­la­tion and dis­trib­utes the dividends of increased prosper­ity, both in mon­et­ary and non-mon­et­ary terms, fairly across society”.

When referred to by The “Good Tour­ism” Blog, inclus­ive tour­ism means the same as OECD’s defin­i­tion of “inclus­ive growth” as it per­tains to the tour­ism sector.

Else­where the term is often used inter­change­ably with “access­ible tour­ism”, which is con­fus­ing. The term should also not be con­fused with “all-inclus­ive tour­ism”, which relates to the prac­tice of bund­ling all (or most) of what a tour­ist might need for their hol­i­day — their trans­port, accom­mod­a­tion, meals, tick­ets, passes, et cet­era — into a single package.

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Five insights that could move tourism closer to sustainability: Lecturer

February 21, 2019

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Jason Paul Mika of Mas­sey Uni­ver­sity shares five insights on the role of tour­ism in sus­tain­able devel­op­ment: Tour­ism is New Zealand’s biggest export earner, con­trib­ut­ing 21% of for­eign exchange earn­ings. The latest data show tour­ists added NZ$39.1 bil­lion to the eco­nomy and the industry has seen a 44% increase over the past five years. But […]

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UK Aid encourages inclusive tourism in Myanmar

June 20, 2018

Inclusive tourism in Myanmar

The UK Aid-fun­­ded Busi­ness Innov­a­tion Facil­ity (BIF) pro­ject has released a high-qual­ity video about inclus­ive tour­ism in Myan­mar. The pro­ject has been work­ing with Myan­mar’s private sec­tor to intro­duce and encour­age take-up of the concept of inclus­ive tour­ism. For the past four years long time Asia Pacific sus­tain­able tour­ism advoc­ate, Steve Noakes, has been senior […]

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COMESA tourism, wildlife, heritage handbook launched

September 8, 2017

COMESA tourism, wildlife, heritage handbook launched

The Com­mon Mar­ket for East­ern & South­ern Africa (COMESA) launched The COMESA Tour­ism & Wild­life Her­it­age Hand­book; Single Mar­ket – Count­less des­tin­a­tions at the 41st World Tour­ism Con­fer­ence held in Kigali, Rwanda. The hand­book is part of the COMESA Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Devel­op­ment Stra­tegic Frame­work, which has been recog­nised by mem­ber states as a mod­el to […]

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Will a tax incentive boost inclusive tourism in the Philippines?

September 7, 2017

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The Phil­ip­pines’ old­est and largest com­mer­cial con­glom­er­ate, Ayala Cor­por­a­tion, has revealed its interest in inclus­ive tour­ism to tap into a tax incent­ive offered by the Phil­ip­pines gov­ern­ment. On the side­lines of the ASEAN Inclus­ive Busi­ness Sum­mit in Manila yes­ter­day, Ayala Corp Man­aging Dir­ect­or Paolo Bor­romeo told Busi­ness Mir­ror that his com­pany would look into inclusive […]

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Tourism growth is not the enemy: UNWTO boss

August 27, 2017

Tourism growth is not the enemy according to UNWTO Secretary General Taleb Rifai

In response to an increas­ing num­ber of reports about “tour­ism-pho­­bia”, the the World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO), August 15, released an opin­ion piece by its Sec­ret­ary Gen­er­al, Taleb Rifai, arguing that tour­ism growth is not the enemy; it’s how we man­age it that counts. As an eco­nom­ic activ­ity, travel and tour­ism is rel­at­ively young; yet it […]

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Rural tourism: Delighting tourists, developing communities

August 12, 2017
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Rural tourism in the Philippines at Banaue Rice Terraces.

At the Second Inter­na­tion­al Rur­al Tour­ism Con­fer­ence held in Anji County in Huzhou, China, July 16 – 18, 2017 the World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) released its report on Inter­na­tion­al Rur­al Tour­ism Devel­op­ment — An Asia-Pacific Per­spect­ive. The report presen­ted best prac­tices in rur­al tour­ism devel­op­ment through­out Asia Pacific and show­cased the power of tour­ism to help mil­lions escape poverty. […]

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