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What is Development Theory

Strategies for Promoting Sustainable Hospitality and Tourism Services
It is understood as a set of theories oriented to boost and recycle local economies.
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The Engineering of Territorial Tourism Study Case of Algeria
Mohammed El Amine Abdelli (University of Zaragoza, Spain & University of Salamanca, Spain), Nadia Mansour (University of Sousse, Tunisia), and Smaili Nabila (University of Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4330-6.ch008
Abstract
Tourism is a vital sector that presents one of the ways of economic diversification of a country. It has become a major economic activity that plays an important role in bringing people, countries, and regions together. In addition, it is an area promoted as a strategic sector since it provides a high percentage of foreign exchange earnings and represents a major share of GDP. Also, it provides a large number of jobs, especially for the most vulnerable groups in the society, including women, young people, and the low-skilled. Boosting this sector would result in remedying the inadequacy of the budgets allocated to the sector to allow maximum investments and to improve the business climate.
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