webpage USAID AND SUSTAINABLE TOURISM: MEETING DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES

USAID has undertaken a varied portfolio of tourism projects — 123 projects in 72 countries since 2000 — that directly focus on tourism development or else use tourism as a means to support and achieve other Agency objectives. These projects have been catalogued and documented in a searchable database that provides links to project descriptions and associated documents. This information was analyzed to produce the document USAID and Sustainable Tourism: Meeting Development Objectives (3.077MB PDF), which describes the range of tourism programs and activities supported by the Agency.

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.