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USAID is currently evaluating this tourism portfolio to see where it can replicate and/or improve upon results achieved, and is developing guidelines and tools to assist Missions and Bureaus with the design and implementation of successful sustainable tourism programs that will further Agency objectives. Highlights of the Agency's tourism sector portfolio were presented to the global tourism community by USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios (33KB PDF) in October of 2004 at the UN-WTO’s Sustainable Tourism Policy Forum.

USAID’s development work focuses on the promotion of economic growth and improvements to livelihoods by assisting and empowering local populations. Sustainable Tourism often offers broad-spectrum opportunities that enable economic growth to be integrated within cluster-based activities that also address natural resource management and biodiversity conservation, together with cross-cutting objectives such as poverty reduction, gender equity, health, and local governance.

Four particularly successful USAID initiatives are highlighted below. Project summaries provide hyperlinks to PowerPoint presentations made by USAID staff at the UN-WTO Sustainable Tourism Policy Forum in October 2004, as well as to more detailed project profiles.

Projects:

• Country Profile: Bulgaria

• Country Profile: Egypt

• Country Profile: Jamaica

• Country Profile: Namibia