In 2000 united nations adopted the millennium development goals un mdgs committing the member nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of specific targets with a deadline of 2015 related to the un mdgs tourism is increasingly seen as a promising tool for poverty reduction ensuring environmental sustainability and developing a global . T ourism and the millennium development goals perspectives beyond 2015 t ourism geographies an international journal of t ourism space place and environment doi 101080 146166882013851269. Doi link for tourism and the millennium development goals tourism and the millennium development goals book tourism local communities and development edited by jarkko saarinen christian m rogerson haretsebe manwa edition 1st edition first published 2013 ebook published 31 october 2013 . Given the emphasis of the unwto on sustainable tourism and the economic significance of the sector the sdgs and the associated millennium development goals mdgs have become focal points for the . Get this from a library tourism and millennium development goals tourism local communities and development jarkko saarinen