Tourism In Belize Ensuring Sustained Growth

Author : Mr.Julian T Chow
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513522937

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Tourism In Belize: Ensuring Sustained Growth by Mr.Julian T Chow Pdf

Belize’s tourism sector has witnessed impressive growth in recent years with overnight tourist arrivals registering double digit annual growth rates since 2016. To guide the development of the tourism sector from 2012 to 2030, the government endorsed a National Sustainable Tourism Master Plan in 2011, setting various initiatives and targets for the immediate and medium terms. Using a panel regression analysis on twelve Caribbean countries, this paper finds that accelerating structural reforms, fortifying governance frameworks, reducing crime, and mitigating the impact of natural disasters will help sustain tourism growth in Belize and contribute to economic well-being. This is in addition to tackling infrastructure bottlenecks and mitigating concerns relating to the “shared economy”.

Author : Mr.Julian T Chow
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513521268

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Tourism In Belize: Ensuring Sustained Growth by Mr.Julian T Chow Pdf

Belize’s tourism sector has witnessed impressive growth in recent years with overnight tourist arrivals registering double digit annual growth rates since 2016. To guide the development of the tourism sector from 2012 to 2030, the government endorsed a National Sustainable Tourism Master Plan in 2011, setting various initiatives and targets for the immediate and medium terms. Using a panel regression analysis on twelve Caribbean countries, this paper finds that accelerating structural reforms, fortifying governance frameworks, reducing crime, and mitigating the impact of natural disasters will help sustain tourism growth in Belize and contribute to economic well-being. This is in addition to tackling infrastructure bottlenecks and mitigating concerns relating to the “shared economy”.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513522173

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Belize by International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept. Pdf

This Selected Issues paper provides an overview of Belize’s tourism sector and main achievements and discusses the country’s comparative advantages and bottlenecks in tourism. It also analyzes the impact of structural and institutional reforms on tourist arrivals. The outturns in tourism have significantly exceeded targets set in the authorities’ National Sustainable Tourism Masterplan (NSTMP). The implementation of the NSTMP reforms has supported the tourism sector’s expansion. In order to guide the development of the tourism sector, the NSTMP 2011 proposes reforms and targets to propel Belize into an internationally recognized tourist destination by 2030. The emergence of the shared economy business model has also brought new challenges, in addition to opportunities. The benefits of the peer-to-peer accommodation available to customers on digital platforms include the expansion of tourism product, service, and sector offerings; improved access to market; and opportunities for income generation. It is imperative that reforms in the near term should focus on addressing the impact of recurring natural hazards, infrastructure bottlenecks, fortifying the institutional and governance framework, reducing crime, and mitigating concerns relating to the shared economy.

Author : Rosaleen Duffy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136572678

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A Trip Too Far by Rosaleen Duffy Pdf

Environmentally-sustainable tourism or ecotourism has become a major area of interest for governments, the private sector and international lending institutions. It is regarded as a way of allowing economic development whilst protecting against environmental degradation, especially in those countries with fragile ecosystems. However, despite the beneficial intentions of ecotourism, it tends to be regarded uncritically by environmental organizations, governments and the private sector alike. Rosaleen Duffy presents this analysis of ecotourism, linking it with environmental ideologies and the politics of North-South relations. By the extensive use of case study and interview material, she formulates ideas and proposals that should be important for the development of ecotourism around the globe.

Author : David L. Edgell, Sr.,Jason R. Swanson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781040039243

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Tourism Policy and Planning by David L. Edgell, Sr.,Jason R. Swanson Pdf

Tourism Policy and Planning: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow offers an introduction to the tourism policy process and how policies link to the strategic tourism planning function as well as influence planning at the local, national, and international levels. This fourth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the many important developments in the travel and tourism industry and subsequent new policies and present planning process issues in relation to crises – in particular, COVID-19. The fourth edition features: New content on the impact of COVID-19 on tourism policy and planning. New content on the effects of the pandemic on the tourism industry more generally, including topics such as degrowth, common good economy, post-growth economy, tourism lobbies and lobbying, tourism policy/planning and SGDs citizens’ engagement in tourism policy and planning, strategic directions, monitoring, and evaluation of tourism policy. New case studies throughout to illustrate real-life applications of planning and policy at the international, regional, national, and local levels. New case studies across a variety of issues related to flora and fauna, landscapes and geographies, and global destinations such as Ecuador, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and Belize. New enhanced companion website with chapter assignments and quizzes. Accessible and up to date, Tourism Policy and Planning provides students with an essential introduction to and examination of important policy and planning issues in tourism globally.

Author : Martin Mowforth,Ian Munt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134123247

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Tourism and Sustainability by Martin Mowforth,Ian Munt Pdf

"If unequal opportunities are large within many countries they are truly staggering on a global scale", so concludes the World Bank’s 2006 World Development Report. It is a global unevenness within which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy first world nations go ever higher, whilst the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct. So how exactly can tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring inequality and gap between the rich and the poor? Are ever expanding tourism markets – and the new, responsible, forms of tourism in particular – a smoke free, socio-culturally sensitive form of human industrialisation? Is alternative tourism really a credible lever for lifting poverty stricken countries out of the mire of global inequality, setting them on the right track to ‘development’, and making poverty history? Tourism and Sustainability critically explores and challenges what have emerged as the most significant universal geopolitical norms of the last half century – development, globalization and sustainability – and through the lens of new forms of tourism demonstrates how we can better understand and get to grips with the rapidly changing new global order. This third edition has been extensively updated and includes new material on: poverty reduction, livelihoods and pro-poor tourism new forms of tourism in cities continuing growth of the fair trade movement tourism’s contribution to climate change volunteer and ‘gap’ tourism affect of disasters on new tourism. Drawing on a range of examples from across the Third World, Tourism and Sustainability illustrates the social, economic and environmental conditions for the growth of new tourism. The book is original in its assessment of tourism through the lens of power – who holds it; how it is used; and who benefits from the exercise of power in the tourism industry. Additionally, the analysis is an interdisciplinary one and the book will therefore be useful to students of Human Geography, Environmental Sciences and Studies, Politics, Development Studies, Anthropology and Business Studies as well as Tourism itself.

Author : Sophia Rolle,Jessica Minnis,Ian Bethell-Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000079883

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Tourism Development, Governance and Sustainability in The Bahamas by Sophia Rolle,Jessica Minnis,Ian Bethell-Bennett Pdf

This book focuses on the complex issues of tourism development, governance and sustainability in the long-standing popular island destination, The Bahamas, where tourism remains one of the primary fiscal industries. The book achieves this by looking at the impacts of mass tourism development from social, economic and environmental perspectives; panarchy and resilience; assessing sustainability; moving towards a blue economy; impacts of climate change and innovative alternative tourism offerings to ensure sustainable tourism – a welcomed but challenging essential contemporary focus of the tourism industry. It further looks at how development, governance and sustainability come together in the aftermath of a recent natural disaster, hurricane Dorian, which proved to be a strong catalyst for action, innovation and change in The Bahamas. Given the complexity of these key concepts and The Bahamas as an established popular tourism destination archipelago which relies so heavily on the industry, this book offers significant insight for other tourism regions and will therefore be essential reading for upper-level students and academics in the field of Tourism research.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : IND:30000088125855

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Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs appropriations for 1991 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Pdf

Author : International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513522142

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Belize by International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept. Pdf

This Selected Issues paper provides an overview of Belize’s tourism sector and main achievements and discusses the country’s comparative advantages and bottlenecks in tourism. It also analyzes the impact of structural and institutional reforms on tourist arrivals. The outturns in tourism have significantly exceeded targets set in the authorities’ National Sustainable Tourism Masterplan (NSTMP). The implementation of the NSTMP reforms has supported the tourism sector’s expansion. In order to guide the development of the tourism sector, the NSTMP 2011 proposes reforms and targets to propel Belize into an internationally recognized tourist destination by 2030. The emergence of the shared economy business model has also brought new challenges, in addition to opportunities. The benefits of the peer-to-peer accommodation available to customers on digital platforms include the expansion of tourism product, service, and sector offerings; improved access to market; and opportunities for income generation. It is imperative that reforms in the near term should focus on addressing the impact of recurring natural hazards, infrastructure bottlenecks, fortifying the institutional and governance framework, reducing crime, and mitigating concerns relating to the shared economy.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264626881

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OECD Tourism Trends and Policies 2020 by OECD Pdf

The 2020 edition analyses tourism performance and policy trends across 51 OECD countries and partner economies. It highlights the need for coherent and comprehensive approaches to tourism policy making, and the significance of the tourism economy, with data covering domestic, inbound and outbound tourism, enterprises and employment, and internal tourism consumption.

Author : Rachel Dodds,Sonya Graci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136530548

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Sustainable Tourism in Island Destinations by Rachel Dodds,Sonya Graci Pdf

Many of the world's islands are dependent on tourism as their main source of income. It is therefore imperative that these destinations are managed for long-term viability. The natural appeal of a destination is typically one of its main tourism related assets, yet the natural environment is also the feature most directly threatened by potential overexploitation. Sustainable Tourism in Island Destinations builds on existing literature in the subject by providing innovative discussions and practical management structures through the use of the authors' various island project work. An original feature is the focus on islands which are part of larger nations, rather than just on island sovereign states. Through an illustrated case study approach, the book focuses on the successes and challenges islands face in achieving sustainable tourism. The authors put forward innovative mechanisms such as multi-stakeholder partnerships and incentive-driven non-regulatory approaches as ways that the sustainability agenda can move forward in destinations that face specific challenges due to their geography and historic development. The case studies - from Canada, St Kitts, Honduras, China, Indonesia, Spain, Tanzania and Thailand - provide the foundation which suggests that alternative approaches to tourism development are possible if they retain sustainability as a priority.

Author : Deryck R. Brown
Publisher : Studies in Caribbean Public Po
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9768125284

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Evaluation, Learning and Caribbean Development by Deryck R. Brown Pdf

A significant development for the Consortium Graduate School, these papers represent the first results of a programme of training in multidisciplinary policy-oriented research provided to graduate professionals from Caribbean countries through the MSc Development Studies degree.

Author : David Timothy Duval
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415303621

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Tourism in the Caribbean by David Timothy Duval Pdf

This book brings together a high calibre team of international researchers to provide an up-to-date assessment of the scope of tourism and the nature of tourism development in the Caribbean; past, present and future.

Author : Dunstan Christopher James
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Tourism
ISBN : CORNELL:31924079982173

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Tourism Planning for the Eastern Caribbean States by Dunstan Christopher James Pdf

Author : Andrew Price,A. P. Heinanen
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Coastal zone management
ISBN : 9782831701134

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Guidelines for Developing a Coastal Zone Management Plan for Belize by Andrew Price,A. P. Heinanen Pdf