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| New Price - Tourism to Benefit the Poor - Exclusive CPD opportunity in The Gambia |
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| Last Updated: 23rd November, 2009 |
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New Price - Tourism to Benefit the Poor - Exclusive CPD opportunity in The Gambia
By Maria Alcahuz
9th November, 2009
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Tourism to Benefit the Poor
Exclusive Continuing Professional Development opportunity
in The
Gambia
GBP350 plus flights.
International Centre for Responsible Tourism
Book on +44 (0)113 812 5880 or
icrt@leedsmet.ac.uk
29 November - 4 December 09
Accommodation: Single room B&B at the
Garden Safari Lodge - living example of responsible tourism.
15 international participants only, plus Gambian partners
GBP350 includes course, accommodation and excursions.
Flights available below GBP300 from
London
and
Manchester
More has been done in The Gambia to ensure that local communities and the economically poor benefit from tourism than anywhere else in the world.
This CPD course enables you to learn first-hand from Gambian people about pro-poor tourism initiatives they have implemented, as well as what worked and what didn't.
The course includes a series of presentations and discussions, field visits and experiences, providing a unique opportunity to explore the issues from a range of perspectives. You will hear from staff from the Ministry and The Gambia Tourism Authority hoteliers, from hoteliers, ground handlers, tour operators, craft workers and guides.
This is an intensive course and you will have the opportunity to test your ideas about how further progress in pro-poor tourism can be made - ideas that were developed during the course from previous years have in fact been implemented by the Gambians! One of the pressing issues that we will focus on this year is how this sector can respond to the recession.
More has been done in The Gambia to ensure that local communities and the economically poor benefit from tourism than anywhere else in the world.
This CPD course enables you to learn first-hand from Gambian people about pro-poor tourism initiatives they have implemented, as well as what worked and what didn't.
The course includes a series of presentations and discussions, field visits and experiences, providing a unique opportunity to explore the issues from a range of perspectives. You will hear from staff from the Ministry and The Gambia Tourism Authority hoteliers, from hoteliers, ground handlers, tour operators, craft workers and guides.
This is an intensive course and you will have the opportunity to test your ideas about how further progress in pro-poor tourism can be made - ideas that were developed during the course from previous years have in fact been implemented by the Gambians! One of the pressing issues that we will focus on this year is how this sector can respond to the recession.
On this course you will study the following:
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Securing market access and improving relationships between the formal and informal sectors
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Measuring the impact of changes in products and market access on livelihoods
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The
Gambia
is Good Initiative - growing fruit and vegetables for hotels to benefit economically poor farmers with Adama Bah
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ASSET- the development, strategy and impacts of the Association of Small Scale Enterprises in Tourism
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Juffureh and Kartong - improving the impact of tourism on local livelihoods and creating better experiences for tourists
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Two one day excursions - to the village of Kartong which is the cusp of experiencing tourism and The Gambia is Good experimental farm, and to Kotu Beach to meet with the craft market, the fruit sellers, local guides and juice pressers.
This article has the following files available for download:
CPD Gambia - Course Contents
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