Training Package for the Toolkit on Poverty Reduction through Tourism

The training package is a set of PowerPoint presentations with Teaching Notes to enable trainers to conduct workshops with the target audience and bring them through the content of the Toolkit on Poverty Reduction through Tourism.

Instructional material | 01 July 2013
The Toolkit for Poverty Reduction outlines approaches to poverty reduction and how the ILO is involved within the context of decent work and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Recent developments in tourism and a vision for an inclusive, pro-poor tourism industry are summarized.

The training package is a set of PowerPoint presentations with Teaching Notes to enable trainers to conduct workshops with the target audience and bring them through the content of the Toolkit. Participants to the workshop will be guided by the trainers to
  • Explore how tourism can help their economies
  • Understand possible positive and negative consequences of tourism development
  • And reflect on their own operations to develop concrete ideas or actions that can be taken to enhance the positive impacts and minimize the negative impacts

The training package is organized into the following seven modules: