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ETHIOPIA: Tourism to be harnessed for poverty alleviation |
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Written by Author Unknown
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Wednesday, 17 November 2004 |
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Ethiopia is to become one of the first countries to be targeted under a United Nations scheme harnessing the country’s tourism potential in order to tackle entrenched poverty. Francesco Frangialli, secretary general of the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) announced on Tuesday that Ethiopia would benefit from a WTO-led, development-friendly, tourism scheme. The Sustainable Tourism Eliminating Poverty initiative focuses on encouraging sustainable tourism – social, economic and ecological – to ease poverty.
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Source: IRINnews.org
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