GSTA Success Stories Dominican Republic
Collection: GSTA Success Stories Dominican Republic
Title | Description | Subject |
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Community-Run Hotel Duty Greene. Draws Tourism to Pedernales | Over fifteen years ago, the Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Comunidad Integral de Pedernales (FUNDACIPE) identified ecotourism as an ideal alternative to encourage its society to actively participate in the local economy while closing the inequality gap. | ['Biodiversity', 'Eco-Tourism', 'Success Story', 'GSTA', 'Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance (GSTA) Documents', 'DSTA'] |
In Ethiopia’s Central Rift Valley, Community Conservation Areas Learn About Sustainable Forest Management | The most recent GSTA Success Story is about Community Conservation Area (CCA) committee members in Ethiopia's Central Rift Valley learning about sustainable forest management. | ['Biodiversity', 'Sustainability', 'Success Story', 'Community-based Forest Management (CBFM)', 'Ethiopia', 'Ethiopian Sustainable Tourism Alliance', 'Community Forestry', 'Conservation', 'GSTA', 'Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance (GSTA) Documents'] |
Journalists Journey | Tourism journalists recently traveled to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to promote the city as the American Capital of Culture for 2010. | ['Biodiversity', 'Success Story', 'Journalism', 'Sustainable Tourism', 'GSTA', 'Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance (GSTA) Documents', 'Dominican Republic', 'DSTA'] |
Promoting Sustainable Rice Production in the Dominican Republic | The Dominican Sustainable Tourism Alliance (DSTA) supported project, through Counterpart International, is bringing together a coalition of rice farmers, water user groups, agri-businesses, agricultural finance institutions, and government agencies. Working together, the partnership is mapping-out and implementing an overarching strategy to reduce the negative environmental impacts of rice cultivation and improve the economic competitiveness of rice farming in the region. | ['Biodiversity', 'Success Story', 'GSTA', 'Dominican Sustainable Tourism Alliance', 'Sustainable Tourism', 'Rice Production', 'Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance (GSTA) Documents', 'Dominican Republic', 'DSTA'] |
ST6. Tourism Workforce Development - A Guide To Assessing And Designing Programs | This manual consists of three major components: Introduction to Tourism Workforce Development; use of the “Guide to Assessing and Designing Tourism Workforce Development Programs” which emphasizes job and career opportunities for youth; and case studies focused on implementing tourism-related workforce development programs. This manual is from a set of nine courses on Sustainable Tourism that have been developed by George Washington University as a result of compiling the lessons and best practices from the USAID Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance (GSTA) program, and other tourism development experiences. The courses train students, practitioners, donor agency representatives, and others working in related fields to understand and develop tourism and its role in international development. All the course materials are public access and also can be found inside the USAID NRM&D Learning Management Center. Your registration in these courses will allow you to actively participate in discussions of the material, and to take quizzes to check yourself for understanding at the end of each course. Each of the nine courses are offered free on a non-academic credit basis and offer a Certificate of Completion from USAID. Participants may take these courses to build your own knowledge of the field of tourism and development. The target audience for this manual, Tourism Workforce Development - A Guide To Assessing And Designing Programs, includes professionals working on tourism-related projects in developing countries, including staff from donor and government agencies, non-governmental organizations, consulting firms, universities, businesses, and other entities. | ['Biodiversity', 'Resource Series', 'Sustainable Tourism', 'USAID', 'GSTA', 'Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance (GSTA) Documents', 'USAIDOLMS'] |
Students from US and Ethiopia Assist Communities | The latest Ethiopia Sustainable Tourism Alliance (ESTA) Success Story highlights the results of community tourism business planning activities by graduate students from George Washington University, Ethiopian tourism students from the University of Hawassa, ESTA staff and consultants, and ESTA partners SNV and EWNHS. | ['Biodiversity', 'Success Story', 'Community', 'Ethiopia', 'Ethiopian Sustainable Tourism Alliance', 'Business Planning', 'GSTA', 'Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance (GSTA) Documents', 'Tourism'] |
Sub-Marine Park Offers Employment Alternative for Local Fishermen | Since its launch in September 2007, Fundación Vida Azul has been recognized as one of the few NGOs that has succeeded in protecting the Dominican Republic’s coasts and educating citizens about marine life conservation. | ['Biodiversity', 'Eco-Tourism', 'Success Story', 'GSTA', 'Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance (GSTA) Documents', 'Employment', 'Dominican Republic', 'DSTA'] |