• • • : tourism generally employs a high level of females, young people, and unskilled or less-skilled individuals; a high percentage of the poorest in society fall into these categories; tourism has rather limited barriers to entry when compared to manufacturing or other export activities; and the tourism sector is already growing at a very high rate in many developing

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