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The Power of Tourism to Fight Poverty

Blog post, March 2010

Authors: Jonathan Mitchell, Caroline Ashley
This blog summarises findings of a recent book written by the ODI Tourism Programme, on ways tourism can reduce poverty in the developing world.
Published by Business Fights Poverty.

Tourism and Poverty Reduction: Pathways to Prosperity

Book, March 2010

Authors: Jonathan Mitchell and Caroline Ashley
This book provides an overview of a broad array of analyses of how tourism affects poor people. First, it pulls these together to identify three main pathways by which impacts on poverty can be delivered. Second, it reviews the empirical evidence on the scale and significance of impacts within each pathway, exploring where comparisons can be made and where they cannot. Finally, it considers the different methods used to gather and collect data, and implications for how we should work in the future.
Paperback, 192pp
Price: £22.95 + shipping
ISBN: 9781844078899
Published by Earthscan.
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Tourism in poor places – who gets what?

ODI Blog Posts, January 2010

Authors: Jonathan Mitchell
ODI research looks at who gets what from international tourism.
Published by ODI.

Enhancing private sector and community engagement in tourism services in Ethiopia

Report, October 2009

Authors: Jonathan Mitchell, Christopher Coles
This report assesses how tourism can reduce poverty in Ethiopia.
Published by ODI. This resource was an output of the following ODI project: Enhancing private sector and community engagement in tourism services in Ethiopia .
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‘Can the private sector reduce poverty at scale? - evidence from the tourism value chain’ in Commonwealth Ministers Reference Book 2009

Book chapter, July 2009

Authors: Jonathan Mitchell, Caroline Ashley
This chapter argues that the need - and opportunity - to harness markets for poverty reduction is evident in tourism.
Published by Henley Media Group on behalf of the Commonwealth Secretariat.
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Six priorities for business and development

ODI Blog Posts, March 2009

Authors: Caroline Ashley
This blog summarises six priorities that are emerging from a meeting series on Harnessing the Power of Business for Development Impact.

Value chain analysis and poverty reduction at scale

ODI Briefing Papers 49, March 2009

Authors: Jonathan Mitchell and Caroline Ashley
Experience in tourism shows that value chain analysis can help to make markets work for the poor.
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Making success work for the poor - Package tourism in Northern Tanzania

Report, January 2009

Authors: Jonathan Mitchell, Jodie Keane and Jenny Laidlaw
This report assesses whether, and how much, international tourism is benefiting the poor in two of Tanzania’s premier tourism attractions – Mount Kilimanjaro and the Northern Safari Circuit.
This resource was an output of the following ODI project: Tracing the tourism dollar in Northern Tanzania .
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ODI Annual Report 2008 - Digital Edition

ODI Annual Reports, September 2008

Authors: ODI
The ODI Annual Report 2008 captures a remarkable year for the Institute.

ODI Annual Report 2008 - PDF version

ODI Annual Reports, September 2008

Authors: ODI
The ODI Annual Report 2008 captures a remarkable year for the Institute.
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Tourist Development in Cape Verde: The policy challenge of coping with success

Report, June 2008

Authors: Jonathan Mitchell
This report constitutes the tourism component of the Diagnostic Trade Integration Study conducted in Cape Verde.
Published by ODI. This resource was an output of the following ODI project: Tourist development in Cape Verde: The policy challenge of coping with success .
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Doing the right thing approximately not the wrong thing precisely: Challenges of monitoring impacts of pro-poor interventions in tourism value chains

ODI Working Papers 291, June 2008

Authors: Caroline Ashley and Jonathan Mitchell
The IFC, SNV, ODI and other organisations are addressing the challenging question of how to scale up impacts of tourism (and their interventions) on poor people. They are increasingly adopting a 'value chain' (VC) approach, seeking to intervene at key points in the tourism value chain that can significantly expand income and opportunities for the poor, while working effectively within a highly commercial and sophisticated service sector.
Paperback
Price: £10 + shipping
ISBN: 978 0 85003 874 3
This resource was an output of the following ODI project: Doing the right thing approximately not the wrong thing precisely: Challenges of monitoring impacts of pro-poor interventions in tourism value chains .
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Creating pro-poor linkages around Rwandan tourism

Report, June 2008

Authors: Caroline Ashley and SNV Rwanda
This brief gives an overview of where poor people participate in Rwanda's business tourism and gorilla-viewing tourism.
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Measuring the impact of business on development

Article - ODI Opinions 101, April 2008

Authors: Caroline Ashley
More work is needed to find ways to measure the development impact of doing better business. The best examples of business impact on development use corporate investment as a springboard for local enterprise.
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The Gambia tourism value chain and prospects for pro-poor tourism

ODI Working Papers 289, March 2008

Authors: Jonathan Mitchell and Jojoh Faal
This study examines the current state of tourism in The Gambia, West Africa, and proposes a series of practical measures to enhance the flow of benefits to the poor.
Paperback
Price: £10 + shipping
ISBN: 978 0 85003 858 3
This resource was an output of the following ODI project: The Gambia Tourism Value Chain and it's Pro-Poor Impact .
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The Davos Question: Fight poverty by going on holiday in a developing country

Video blog - The Davos Debates, January 2008

Authors: Pam Muckosy
Pam Muckosy discusses how individuals can help to make poor people in developing countries through tourism.

The Role of the Tourism Sector in Expanding Economic Opportunity

Report, December 2007

Authors: Caroline Ashley, Peter De Brine, Amy Lehr, and Hannah Wilde
Drawing on several case studies, this Corporate Social Responsibllity Initiative report looks at what tourism business can do to expand economic opportunity in developing countries.
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Holiday package tourism and the poor in the Gambia

Article - Development Southern Africa Vol 24, No 3, September 2007

Authors: Jonathan Mitchell and Jojoh Faal
This paper analyses the tourism value chain in order to understand and encourage pro-poor growth of the tourist sector in The Gambia.
This resource was an output of the following ODI project: The Gambia Tourism Value Chain and it's Pro-Poor Impact .
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Participatory Tourism Value Chain Analysis in Da Nang, Central Vietnam

Report, September 2007

Authors: Jonathan Mitchell and Le Chi Phuc
This report describes an innovative approach to tourist development – a participatory pro-poor value chain analysis.
This resource was an output of the following ODI project: Vietnam Private Sector Support Programme: Final Report on Participatory Tourism Value Chain Analysis in Da Nang, Central Vietnam .
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ODI Annual Report 2007 - Transitions in international development

ODI Annual Reports, July 2007

Authors: ODI
"ODI is currently thinking about its own future, in our latest five-year review. We need to identify emerging themes and reflect on our place in the world..."
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