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Bangkok Post, Thailand, travel column.
Byline: Imtiaz Muqbil
Jul. 5--UN HELPS FUNNEL TOURISM REVENUE TO POOR: The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap) has begun to develop methodologies and indicators to help governments and other stakeholders understand and measure how tourism benefits the poor.
Although tourism, both international and domestic, is recognised as a major contributor to poverty alleviation worldwide, it has long lacked a uniformly acceptable means of measuring this impact in quantifiable terms.
Last week, Escap released a revised edition of a manual for evaluating the impact of targeted poverty reduction programmes.
It documents the major issues associated with evaluation of such programmes, develops simple indicators to measure success, shows way to compute these indicators and specifies the data needed for doing so.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Bangkok Post, Thailand, travel column.