Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals
Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals
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TIES New Publication: Tourism and Sustainable DevelopmentThe new publication "Sustainable Tourism & the Millennium Development Goals: Effecting Positive Change" by The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) discusses tourism's roles in addressing the key challenges and opportunities for sustainable development, and offers case studies, best practice examples and industry insights focusing on:
The practice of ecotourism and sustainable tourism has the potential to assist in conserving natural areas, alleviating poverty, empowering women, enhancing education, and improving the health and well being of local communities. The text discusses how ecotourism and sustainable tourism can assist in supporting and meeting this potential by drawing on case studies and examples. It takes a historical perspective looking at the development of ecotourism and sustainable tourism over the past twenty years, from where TIES and other associations began, and in particular the key landmarks and events that have brought ecotourism and sustainable tourism to the present day.
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Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the largest gathering of world leaders in history, adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets, with a deadline of 2015, that have become known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs are the world's time-bound and quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions-income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and exclusion-while promoting gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability. They are also basic human rights; the rights of each person on the planet to health, education, shelter, and security.
Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty
Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality
Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
Source: http://www.unmillenniumproject.org
More about the Book
Editors: Dr. Kelly S. Bricker, Dr. Rosemary Black, and Dr. Stuart Cottrell
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Forward: Dr. David Western, African Conservation Centre
Contributors:
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Ms Ayako Ezaki |
Dr. Anna Spenceley |
Dr. Carl Cater |
Photo credits (from left): Lucky Chhetri and Wendy Brewer Lama; Jeremy Schultz and Nathan Bricker; Brad Nahill and Chris Pesenti
