Tourism as a Development Strategy

Objective: explore the costs and benefits of tourism as a development strategy in SIDS.

Outcomes:

1. You will be allocated different aspects of tourism as a development strategy for the Comoros Islands;

• economic importance
• vulnerability to external shocks
• vulnerability to internal limitations
• responding to threats

Share your findings with the rest of the class in a one minute presentation.

2. Now think about this:

Plenary: x marks the spot.... where does tourism fall on the grid above?