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Proyecto

Tourism as an engine of gender-inclusive and sustainable development in Bolivia
 

Bolivia
Identificador del Proyecto
109776
Total del financiamiento
CAD 973,000.00
Funcionario del IDRC
Carolina Robino
Estado de Proyecto
Active
Fecha de finalización
Duración
30 meses

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Líder del proyecto:
Lykke E. Andersen
Bolivia

Resumen

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism was one of the most dynamic sectors in Bolivia, with an annual growth rate more than double the rate of the country’s overall GDP growth. By 2019, international tourism had become the fourth most important export product in the country.Más información

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism was one of the most dynamic sectors in Bolivia, with an annual growth rate more than double the rate of the country’s overall GDP growth. By 2019, international tourism had become the fourth most important export product in the country. It has generated more jobs than the mining and natural gas industries combined. However, while more than 75% of the population employed in tourism are women, the jobs in which women are employed are more precarious than those of men, and women are underrepresented in tourism enterprise leadership. The COVID-19 pandemic struck the tourism industry severely. This project proposes to foster sustainable tourism for a low-carbon transition, women’s economic empowerment, and the involvement of local communities in COVID-19 recovery in Bolivia.

The project will provide empirical evidence to guide public and private investment in the tourism sector and foster tourism as a key engine of gender-inclusive and sustainable development in Bolivia. The research will explore the potential of the tourism sector for a low-carbon and more inclusive development model for Bolivia. It will dig deeper into how this alternative economic activity may become viable and scalable; identify the main private and public actors; and explore what specific actions should be taken to promote this transition. It will test and explore the impacts of various interventions on women-led businesses in the sector, on the surrounding communities, and on the environment.

The project will develop a Bolivian Tourism Observatory, which will work at the intersection of the private and public sector, gather data about tourism, promote research, generate evidence about its impact, and build academic-public-private alliances to strategically boost the transition to a more gender-inclusive and sustainable development model for the country. It will test innovations and training for women-led small- and medium-sized businesses and build the capacity for the Observatory to become self-supporting.

A woman wearing a hat sits on a beach
Reynaldo San Martín/ORBITA Project
Susibilica Apasa, head of tourism development in the Lake Titicaca region
Impact story

Orbita: An observatory designed to stimulate responsible tourism

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Resumen

This project set out to investigate whether tourism could become an engine of sustainable development and female empowerment in Bolivia. Our flagship report “Tourism with a Purpose and the 2030 Agenda in Bolivia” distilled the knowledge generated from the various project components. The report demonstrated that tourism has the potential to become the main export product of Bolivia in just 5 or 6 years, generating much-needed foreign currency revenues and hundreds of thousands of high-quality jobs, especially for women and young people, with minimal environmental harm. This can be achieved if we prioritize five particularly beneficial types of tourism and overcome a few obstacles to unleash this potential.

Autores
Andersen, Lykke
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SDSN Bolivia
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