Tourism for Development Fund

Implementing the Foundation’s strategic framework, projects will particularly focus on dual vocational training for disadvantaged communities, the conservation of endangered species, sustainable agriculture, protecting marine environments, empowering local entrepreneurs, creatives, and artisans, and promoting sustainable investment. Carefully assessing local needs, it will support projects designed to increase the capacity of destination communities to improve their livelihoods, conserve and regenerate nature, and create market-based solutions that benefit tourism destinations. Targeted Least Developed Countries are amongst others Senegal, The Gambia, Cambodia, Lao, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia. 

To support the Tourism for Development Fund, the UN Tourism will provide a platform to advance the initiative, invite funders to join and support calls for proposals, liaise with member states from Least Developed Countries and international organisations for further coordination, and jointly organise a series of events that promote the potential of sustainable tourism in Least Developed Countries.