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Tourism in developing countries economics and management. We must instead ask if the tourist activities are able to improve the development of third world countries, or, rather, their growth can cause damage to these weak economic systems. It offers a range of definitions of sustainable tourism from different sectors of tourism and different parts of the world. As a potentially significant source of economic growth in developing countries, tourism may also play a major role in poverty reduction and alleviation under the right circumstances.

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