Facilitating pro-poor tourism with the private sector Lessons learned from 'Pro-Poor Tourism Pilots' in Southern Africa
Caroline Ashley
Working Paper 257, Nov 2005, £8.00, ISBN 0 85003 778 6
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This paper draws on the three year experience of PPT Pilots to identify what was learnt about how companies can increase linkages with the local economy. It analyses the benefits and costs to businesses, the impacts on the local economy, lessons learnt about how companies can implement local linkages, and findings on the effectiveness of a linkages approach.

End of project monitoring and evaluation report By Douglas McNab. With contributions from Caroline Ashley, Gareth Haysom, Zeph Nyathi and Clive Poultney. (September 2005)

Summary
This paper attempts to measure the impact of the three year PPT pilot project in South Africa that ended in March 2005 and to draw conclusions from it.

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UK Tour Operators Opinions of Pro-Poor/ Transformational/ Responsible Tourism. by Nina Jackson, Gareth Haysom and Zeph Nyathi (December 2004)

Summary
In late 2004 the PPT Pilots programme undertook a short survey of some tour operator attitudes on pro-poor/ responsible/ transformational tourism. The aim was to get UK tour operators’ opinions on how the development of linkages and partnership at South African properties affect both themselves and their clients, and to feed these responses back into its work in South Africa.

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Business Implementation of Pro-Poor Tourism: Case Study Briefs by Dorothea Meyer, Caroline Ashley and Clive Poultney (first versions produced May 2004, revised versions uploaded January 2005).

Summary
These briefs were produced by the Pro Poor Tourism Pilots (Southern Africa) Programme, as a way to share practical
international examples of pro poor actions with programme partners and others.There are eight briefs so far in the Business Implementation of Pro-Poor Tourism Series. They cover a diverse range oftopics from branding to supply chains and tourism-agriculture linkages.

Brief No. 1 Pro-Poor Tourism Strategies for Business: Creating Linkages
Brief No. 2 Boosting Local Input into the Supply Chain
Brief No. 3 Tourism-Agricultural Linkages: Boosting Inputs from Local Farmers
Brief No. 4 Using 'Local Branding' to Enhance Local Product Sales to Tourists
Brief No. 5 Developing Local Excursions for Tourists
Brief No. 6 Tourism Investment in Local Capacity Building and Training
Brief No. 7 Ethical Consumerism and Tourism
Brief No. 8 Making Responsible Travel a Marketing Feature and a Business Plus

A Different Way of Doing Business, by Caroline Ashley and Gareth Haysom, 2004.

Summary
This paper argues that the tourism sector needs to go much further in shifting from philanthropic approaches to community benefit to pro-poor approaches that entail doing business differently. It goes beyond generalisations about what companies should do to look at some of the nitty gritty of how they can implement changed practice and illustrates that there is much that ‘mainstream’ commercial tourism can do to embrace pro-poor approaches.

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Partners Workshop Report May 2004, by Caroline Ashley, 2004.

Summary
This workshop was organised to bring together partners involved in the programme: 'Pro-Poor Tourism Pilots in Southern Africa. The aim was for participants to exchange ideas and learn from each other by discussing progress and challenges, and to identify key issues for the year ahead.

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PPT Facilitation Format

Summary
PPT facilitation is a service provided to a tourism company and its local stakeholders, to assist in building linkage(s) between them. The support facilitates the process of developing a joint vision, exploring mutually beneficial linkages, planning tasks, and achieving successful implementation. The facilitation format is a generic tool that can be adapted to each site to facilitate the creation of a very specific linkage concerning one product, or to building a long-lasting partnership with many components.

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Summary Partner Scoping Reports

Summary
Initial scoping reports have been prepared for each partner site
in order to provide background information for prioritisation and implementation of PPT actions. These cover
1. stakeholder analysis (identification of needs and assets of company and community);
2. assessment of existing linkages between stakeholders;
3. discussion of potential linkages.
These reports are summaries of the full scoping reports (which are available upon request).

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Southern Sun
Sun City
Spier
Wilderness Safaris
Ker & Downey

Routes and Gateways: Key issues for the development of tourism routes and gateways and their potential for Pro-Poor Tourism, by Dorothea Meyer, 2004

Summary
The report briefly discusses ideas of dispersal and concentration strategies to increase the positive inpacts of tourism to 'poor' stakeholders.

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Township Tours, by Dorothea Meyer, 2004

Summary
This short papers discuss the potential township tours have for Pro-Poor Tourism.

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Pilots Partners Leaflet, April 2004

Strategies, Impacts and Costs of Pro-Poor Tourism Approaches in South Africa by A. Spenceley and J. Seif, PPT Working Paper N.11, 2003, ODI

Summary
This paper compares the approach of five South African lodges in terms of their approach to corporate social responsibility and community benefits.
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Transforming or Tinkering? New Forms of Engagement
between Communities and the Private Sector in Tourism
and Forestry in Southern Africa, by C. Ashley and W. Wolmer, SLSA Research Paper N.18, 2003, IDS.

Summary
This report outlines the many new types of arrangements between communities and operators from the perspectives of the poor and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of these arrangements.
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Tourism, local livelihoods and the private sector in South Africa: Case studies on the growing role of the private sector in natural resources management, by A. Spenceley, SLSA Research Paper N. 8, 2003, IDS Summary
This paper reviews a variety of community-private sector arrangements developed by tourism lodges in South Africa. It assesses them in terms of the pro-poor benefits they deliver.
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South African Tourism Industry Empowerment and Transformation, Annual Review 2002, TBCSA

Summary
This review looks at the Charter of Empowerment and Transformation adopted by TBCSA in June 2001, in terms of ownership, affirmative procurement and SMME development, internal transformation, community development and market development. The paper also examines the role of Government as well as the Trade Associations.
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The Tourism Industry and Poverty Reduction: A Business Primer Dilys Roe, Harold Goodwin and Caroline Ashley. Pro-Poor Tourism Briefing No.2., 2002, ODI, IIED, ICRT.

Summary
This brief explains why poverty does matter to tourism businesses and describes what companies – both in the originating and destination countries – can do to contribute to the global effort on poverty reduction.
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Pro-Poor Tourism Strategies: Making Tourism Work For The Poor. A review of experience, by C. Ashley, D. Roe and H. Goodwin, 2001, ODI, IIED, and ICRT

Summary
This paper reviews practical strategies for pro-Poor Tourism by assessing half a dozen case studies undertaken by businesses, NGOs, governments and communities to increase the benefits from tourism to the poor. Three case studies are located in South Africa.
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