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Tourism development
Improving the tourism potential of Atauro Island, Timor-Leste
Atauro is a small island close to Dili, the capital city of Timor-Leste. The country is located in the Coral Triangle known for its rich and abundant marine life. The pristine natural environment is its biggest draw. With rugged mountains and a long...
Sustainable tourism: A driving force of job creation, economic growth and development
On the eve of the T20 Ministers’ meeting in China, ILO Tourism Specialist Lucie Servoz explains how sustainable tourism can be a driving force for decent work, economic growth and sustainable development.
SCORE in the Tourism Sector gathers pace
An update on the outreach of SCORE Training in tourism enterprises in South Africa, Kenya with some good news from Indonesia
Press Release
Tourism in need of skills reboot in the wake of ASEAN Economic Community
Viet Nam needs a skills council for tourism sector to best seize opportunities from the accelerated regional and global integration
Poverty reduction
How tourism makes a difference in poor areas of Viet Nam
Over the last three years, an International Labour Organization (ILO) project in Viet Nam has developed tourism-boosting jobs and reduced poverty in neglected areas.
Indonesia
Taking tourism beyond natural beauty
The ILO’s JOY project is changing residents’ lives in Nongkojajar, East Java and transforming the once quiet town into an agrotourism destination.
Emerging technologies in tourism sector could offer new employment opportunities in the Caribbean
The findings are the result of a 7-month virtual training Programme, a South-South joint collaboration between the International Labour Organization (ILO) Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean, Inter-American Centre for Knowledge Development...
ILO, ILO/CINTERFOR, ACS and SENAI to review results of Anticipating Skills Requirements in Tourism Programme
The Programme has equipped participants to anticipate future skills requirements, focusing on the Tourism sector, in order to design training programmes to match labour market opportunities
ILO, UNWTO to promote reliable and comparable statistics on tourism employment
Improving the measurement of employment in tourism is critical to support decision making in a sector which represents nine per cent of global GDP and is a proven tool to advance sustainable development.
Worst forms of child labour
Battling commercial sexual exploitation of children in Madagascar
The ILO and the EU join forces in an innovative project which uses education to help kids build new lives.
Tourism and employment
ILO Viet Nam Director's Speech at Hue Festival 2014
ILO Viet Nam Director, Gyorgy Sziraczki, addresses an event in the framework of the Heritage Festival organized in Hue on 12 April 2014.
Zimbabwe
Moving from marginalization through apprenticeships
An ILO project in Zimbabwe is helping improve the quality of apprenticeships in the informal economy. The programme helps young people, particularly those living with disability, find decent work and escape the vicious circle of marginalization and...
Int'l Day for Persons with Disability
Corporate Social Responsibility – “Promote Disability Inclusion, Expand Businesses”
Promoting job opportunities for People with Disabilities is not only the key for people with disability to participate in the community but also contribute to businesses to expand.
Projects
New projects to touch tourism, unemployment and sex work
The ILO in Viet Nam gets resources from One UN Fund
Poverty Reduction through Tourism in Africa
More than 50 million people visit Africa yearly. That's about 5% of all international travel, but on World Tourism Day, these low figures do not reflect the vast role tourism plays in many African economies. One out of every 20 jobs in Africa is in...
World Tourism Day
Tourism, poverty reduction and gender equality
On the occasion of World Tourism Day (27 September), ILO Senior Tourism Specialist Wolfgang Weinz and ILO Senior Gender Specialist Susan Maybud talk about the role that tourism can play in achieving poverty reduction and gender equality.
ILO to Launch Toolkit on Poverty Reduction through Tourism
ILO will launch its toolkit on poverty reduction through tourism at the Chef’s Guild awards ceremony to be held at the BMICH, Colombo. The launch will be followed by a workshop carried out by ILO in collaboration with the Chefs Guild of Sri Lanka to...
Public-private dialogue to promote Quang Nam tourism
The ILO project “Strengthening Inland Tourism in Quang Nam Province”, in coordination with the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), has supported Quang Nam Tourism Association to develop an action plan with a focus on essential...
Hoi An Tourism Information Centre opens, highlighting ILO-UNESCO partnership
A new tourism information centre in Viet Nam’s ancient town of Hoi An was open to tourists on 22 June as a result of the partnership between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...
Community-based tourism brings additional income to Quang Nam ethnic groups
Two villages of Co Tu ethnic group in the western mountainous part of Quang Nam Province on 23 June inaugurated their community-based tourism services with the support of the International Labour Organization (ILO).