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Tourism's role in poverty alleviation highlighted.
Byline: Imtiaz Muqbil
May 2--The disasters that have affected the region recently appear to have awakened the economists at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (Escap) to the importance of tourism to poverty alleviation.
In Escap's annual state of the Asia-Pacific economic report, released last week, tourism is mentioned 64 times in assessing the conditions of countries, considered in UN classification as being "least developed economies".
This is a big change from the past, when tourism was frivolously treated in the report as a fringe industry. But the recent Sars and tsunami disasters showed how dependent these countries are on tourism for both jobs and export earnings.
Indeed, the report takes resolute notice of the fact that Nepal, Maldives, Sri Lanka, ...
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