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CEPAL Review no.104

Revista CEPAL no.104

Tourism life cycle, tourism competitiveness and upgrading strategies in the Caribbean

In the 1980s Butler adapted the life cycle product model to the tourism industry and created the “Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model”. The model recognizes six stages in the tourism product life cycle: exploration, investment, development, consolidation, stagnation and followed, after stagnation, by decline or revitalization of the product. These six stages can in turn be regrouped into four main stages. The Butler model has been applied to more than 30 country cases with a wide degree of success. De Albuquerque and Mc Elroy (1992) applied the TALC model to 23 small Caribbean island States i…

Tourism in the Caribbean: competitiveness, upgrading, linkages and the role of public private partnerships (PPP) and public policy

The main purpose of this paper is to explore and analyze the contributions that publicprivate partnerships and public policy have made in the development of tourism in the Caribbean as tools for enhancing competitiveness in the Caribbean tourism industry. The paper explores these contributions mainly in the context of the upgrading strategies that Caribbean countries have pursued over the past 15 years or so and using the lens of the tourism value chain and tourism cluster approach. The paper also analyzes the potential roles that public-private partnerships and public policy will continue to …

Manual para la evaluación del impacto socioeconómico y ambiental de los desastres

Los desastres tienen un efecto negativo sobre las condiciones de vida de la población, el desempeño económico de los países o regiones en que ocurren, además de que perjudican el acervo y los servicios ambientales. Las secuelas de los desastres se prolongan más allá del corto plazo y, en ocasiones, provocan cambios irreversibles tanto en las estructuras económicas y sociales como en el medio ambiente. En el caso de los países industrializados, los desastres afectan gravemente las considerables existencias de capital acumulado, en tanto que las pérdidas de vidas humanas son limitadas gr…

Handbook for estimating the socio-economic and environmental effects of disasters

Application of the concepts of agro-tourism, agricultural diversification and food and nutrition for the development of Caribbean communities with reference to standards and priority setting

Introduction There is a renewed call for a new approach to development with emphasis on community empowerment or participation, with the belief that more sustainable activities will be undertaken in those communities. Much of that call, however, is coming not from within the communities, but primarily from advocates of change who may have little to do with those communities. What then will the new approach bring apart from a change in who are the decision-makers? And how do we ensure that the change that is called for will, in fact, bring added benefits to the communities themselves? To be sur…

CDCC - Twenty-Five Years of Cooperation and Development: 1975-2000

La economía cubana: reformas estructurales y desempeño en los noventa

Presentación La economía cubana. Reformas estructurales y desempeño en los noventa, en su segunda edición -corregida, ampliada y actualizada-, presenta una contribución más a la serie de investigaciones sobre la realidad económica y social de la región, que de manera sistemática emprende la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) por mandato de los países.      A fines de los años ochenta, la rápida disolución de la antigua Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas significó el desmoronamiento de los nexos de Cuba con los países socialistas europeos. El país se vi…

Skill WAVE: Workshop for Action, Vision and Entrepreneurship - Grenada

ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.…

Skill WAVE: Workshop for Action, Vision and Entrepreneurship - Antigua and Barbuda

ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.…