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Project No. |
TWG 01 2011A
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Project Title |
Creating Business Growth Opportunities in the New APEC Economy
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Project Status |
Completed Project
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Publication (if any) |
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Fund Account |
APEC Support Fund
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Sub-fund |
ASF: General Fund
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Project Year |
2011
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Project Session |
Session 1
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APEC Funding |
100,000
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Co-funding Amount |
50,000
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Total Project Value |
150,000
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Sponsoring Forum |
Tourism Working Group (TWG)
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Topics |
Tourism
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Committee |
SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE)
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Other Fora Involved |
Not Applicable / Other
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Other Non-APEC Stakeholders Involved |
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Proposing Economy(ies) |
United States
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Co-Sponsoring Economies |
Australia; Philippines
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Expected Start Date |
20/04/2011
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Expected Completion Date |
31/12/2012
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Project Proponent Name 1 |
Jennifer Kirsch
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Job Title 1 |
International Trade Specialist
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Organization 1 |
U.S. Department of Commerce
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Postal Address 1 |
14th & Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20230, United States
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Telephone 1 |
202-482-2404
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Fax 1 |
202-482-2887
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Email 1 |
Jennifer.Kirsch@trade.gov
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Project Proponent Name 2 |
Not Applicable
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Job Title 2 |
Not Applicable
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Organization 2 |
Not Applicable
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Postal Address 2 |
Not Applicable
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Telephone 2 |
Not Applicable
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Fax 2 |
Not Applicable
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Email 2 |
Not Applicable
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Declaration |
Jennifer Kirsch
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Project Summary |
Travel and tourism provides an unparalleled growth opportunity for the developing economies of the APEC region since it can significantly contribute to capacity building while, at the same time, ensure sustainable long-term economic, environmental and social development. This project seeks to grow travel and tourism in the region by identifying the business opportunities that are available, or need to be established, and how they can be integrated into the current travel and tourism business/regulatory environment to contribute to capacity building. In effect, this also means identifying – and proposing ways of reducing – impediments / barriers to tourism growth, highlighting examples of best practice across APEC and other economies. The project will run from April 2011 and will last for approximately 18 months. The project report will be presented during a meeting of the Tourism Working Group in 2012, with a workshop to take place with the private sector on the margins of the meeting.
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Relevance |
The APEC region has become the world’s leading growth centre by promoting free and open trade and investment and strengthening regional economic integration. The APEC economies are significant contributors to the world economy, generating around 57 percent of world economic output.
In 2010, the APEC economies collectively attracted over 40 percent of total international tourist arrivals worldwide and generated more than 40 percent of world visitor exports. The latest research from the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), carried out in collaboration with Oxford/Tourism Economics, suggests that the APEC region's visitor exports will increase by 4.7 percent per annum over the next 10 years, rising to US$750.7 billion by 2021 – or a 3.9 percent share of APEC's total exports.
WTTC expects travel and tourism's direct contribution to APEC GDP to exceed US$990 billion in 2011, a 2.6 percent share of total GDP, generating 45 million jobs, or 3 percent of total employment. If the indirect and induced impacts of travel and tourism are factored into the calculations, its total contribution is three times greater – US$3.2 trillion GDP (an 8 percent share) and 125 million jobs.
Moreover, both the direct and total contributions of travel and tourism to GDP and employment are forecast to rise strongly over the coming decade – by 4.4 percent and 2.2 percent per annum respectively, resulting in an additional 8.4 million jobs across the APEC economies, either directly within the industry or in sectors linked to travel and tourism.
Clearly, travel and tourism will be a major engine for economic growth within APEC economies going forward. But it will be critical to make every effort to ensure that this potential is fully tapped – i.e. that the political, economic and operating environment is conducive to growth, facilitating and stimulating private sector enterprise and investment, as well as new employment opportunities, and capturing an increasing share of demand from within the APEC economies.
This project will also benefit APEC and member economies because of its focus on:
· Emphasis on developing economies. Tourism is of particular importance for many developing economies: the growth of global tourism has been a positive force for these countries’ economies and represents the only major service sector in which developing nations regularly have a trade surplus.
· Capacity Building. Growth in travel and tourism in the APEC region will provide member economies - developing ones in particular - access to capacity-building opportunities, including workforce skills development, opportunities for women and SMEs, infrastructure development, and building relationships between industry and government.
· Promoting greater convergences among economies in key areas of APEC’s REI agenda, including services. Although there is a great deal of variation in productivity within the APEC region, the global impact of APEC as a whole is significant. Travel and tourism in particular is an integral part of the APEC region, not just economically but also culturally, socially, and environmentally. This project will serve to promote regional integration in all of those aspects, and to bring the developing economies closer to the developed ones.
· Contribute to inclusive growth – SME development, employment creation, skills upgrading of workers, empowering women. Growth depends on the existence of a global and efficient logistical framework supporting transportation, telecommunications, financial flows, accommodation, food services and other tourism-related services. Government policies, including those governing border crossings, foreign direct investment, access to foreign workers and the movement of capital, are also key elements in the growth of tourism. Tourism growth in the region will contribute significantly to inclusive growth, particularly by increasing the opportunities for SMEs (as tour operators, for example) and creating jobs and stabilizing employment.
· Cross-cutting issues. This project will dovetail with an Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) study on “Liberalisation in the Tourism Sector” that is just getting started in 2011. The OECD study will identify priority areas/measures perceived as obstacles to international tourism and will review current practices for those areas. Priority areas will include measures that constitute a regulatory limitation to the development of international tourism and to the free movement of travellers, for example: tourism businesses regulations, investment or fiscal charges imposed on international travellers.
· Finally, this project – which covers issues of interest and concern to governments around the world, as reflected by the growing focus on these topics at the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) – would provide a best-practice example of partnership between multiple APEC fora, international organizations, particularly the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and WTTC, and the private sector.
While the main objective of the study will be to identify opportunities for growth, the research will provide a follow-up to earlier APEC studies which concentrated on the impediments to growth – e.g. visa constraints, excessive taxation, infrastructure limitations, increased safety and security concerns (reflected in more intensive airport checks), environmental and other legislation, and barriers to capital flows, etc. Reducing these impediments is critical to ensuring that the potential of travel and tourism is fully tapped by APEC Member economies, especially the developing economies, allowing travel and tourism to power economic growth.
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Objectives |
This project seeks to grow travel and tourism in the APEC region by identifying the business opportunities that are available, or need to be established, and how they can be integrated into the current travel and tourism business and regulatory environment to contribute to capacity building in the region. The study will focus on the opportunities for growth and capacity building, although it will take as a starting point the existing barriers and impediments to travel and tourism that are hampering growth. The private sector, through PATA and WTTC – and including leading travel and tourism companies (airlines, hotel groups, etc) as well as other major players directly involved in tourism, such as banks and financial services (e.g. Citibank, Visa International, American Express) – will be invited to contribute their views on achieving solutions and reducing some of these impediments while, at the same time, bearing in mind the wider issues of concern to APEC economies (such as homeland security, safety, or environmental concerns).
Not only is it important to address individual impediments, but it is also essential to have a system in place to identify and minimise their impact. The project will help APEC Member economies draw up Individual Action Plans – through the presentation of best practice in different parts of the world – but also, through the TWG, to help APEC develop a Collective Action Plan to help reduce impediments across the region and stimulate demand for travel and tourism.
The goal is the creation of an enabling environment in the region for travel and tourism with appropriate policy frameworks, institutional development, inclusive growth (women, for example), and workforce development.
Opportunities identified may be in the areas of travel facilitation (including access to visas); connectivity to and within the APEC region; sustainable tourism (including workforce development); and emergency preparedness. These are areas of interest already identified by the TWG and incorporated into the TWG strategic plan. By looking at the opportunities within these areas, the project will be able to make policy recommendations for APEC economies as to how to overcome the impediments in these arenas and how to take advantage of the opportunities. Member economies can then consider these policy strategies as part of the TWG and also take them back to their home economies for implementation.
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Alignment |
This project aligns with all four of the updated strategic policy goals that the TWG put into place in early 2011:
1. Promote better understanding and recognition of tourism as an engine for growth and prosperity in the APEC region. The project will contribute to this goal by engaging the private sector, multilateral, and international organizations in research and joint activities to address current issues and opportunities for growth and to identify new ones.
2. Ensure inclusive growth in the travel and tourism sector by encouraging socially and culturally responsible tourism. This project will help small and medium enterprises and women entrepreneurs to gain better access to global markets, and may identify new tourism products and niche segments (e.g. cruise tourism, sports tourism, MICE) as opportunities for tourism growth in the region.
3. Develop travel and tourism businesses and destinations based on sound principles of sustainable tourism. Any future growth must be sustainable growth. This project will help to identify specific opportunities for sustainable tourism growth, including best practice, ethics, and technologies for the management of tourism businesses and destinations.
4. Promote efficiency and regional economic integration through policy alignment and structural reform. This project will address opportunities for cross-border tourism flows, building convergences of national policies, and encouraging investment in tourism infrastructure and destinations in order to grow tourism in the region.
The Nara Declaration, which was adopted in September 2010 at the TWG meeting, reiterated the significance of tourism for growth in the Asia-Pacific region and stressed that it is essential to continue to develop a tourism-friendly business environment in the region. It also recognized the importance of collaboration with the private sector and international bodies, such as PATA, WTTC, and the OECD, as well as the importance of the exchange information and best practice on efforts to expand new and emerging types of tourism to stimulate new demand and tourism-related investment across the APEC region.
This project all aligns with APEC key priorities and the Growth Strategy namely: Tourism is listed in the Growth Strategy under “inclusive” growth. In addition, any growth that is not inclusive is not sustainable, so growth in travel and tourism will also contribute to green growth.
Growth in tourism will contribute to regional economic integration. Although there is a great deal of variation in productivity within the APEC region, the global impact of APEC as a whole is significant. Travel and tourism in particular is an integral part of the APEC region, not just economically but also culturally, socially, and environmentally. This project will serve to promote regional integration in all of those aspects, and to bring the developing economies closer to the developed ones.
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TILF/ASF Justification |
Tourism is particularly important for developing economies. Tourism is the only major service sector in which developing economies regularly have trade surpluses. Growth in travel and tourism in the APEC region will provide developing member economies access to capacity-building opportunities, including workforce skills development, opportunities for women and SMEs, infrastructure development, and building relationships between industry and government.
Developing economies will play an integral role in both the planning and executing of this project. The Philippines is currently the Deputy Lead Shepherd for the TWG and a co-sponsor for this project. Additionally, WTTC and PATA, co-sponsors of this project, have a great interest in capacity building in developing economies, primarily in developing skilled and qualified human capital to cater to their growing workforce needs and ensuring the basic infrastructure requirements are in place.
WTTC's mission is to work closely with governments at all levels to raise awareness of travel and tourism's economic contribution and to unlock its potential for growth, identifying and eliminating barriers and assisting in capacity building in developing economies.
PATA’s objectives include contributing to the responsible development of the Asia Pacific travel and tourism industry by enhancing the sustainable growth, value and quality of travel and tourism to, from and within the region. By creating an enabling environment for travel and tourism within the region, with appropriate policy and legal frameworks, institutional development, participation of women, and human resources development, capacity building will lead to long-term, sustainable growth.
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Beneficiaries and Outputs |
All individual APEC member economies, both developed and developing, should have an interest and stake in this project and will directly benefit from the results. The APEC region as a whole will also directly benefit. Other stakeholders include:
· Private sector, including tourism operators. The travel and tourism sector comprises many industries, including hotels and lodging, airlines, rental cars, recreation, and cruise lines, among others. These industries, as well as tour operators, will benefit from finding new opportunities to expand travel and tourism business in the APEC region.
· Multilateral organizations, such as PATA, WTTC, and OECD. PATA and the WTTC are comprised of private sector members in the travel and tourism industry. PATA and the WTTC will benefit from this research because they will be better able to inform their members about business opportunities. PATA and WTTC benefit when their members are successful, and this research will contribute to that success. The OECD is just beginning a study on liberalisation in the tourism sector. They will benefit from the output of this project (report) and will also be invited to participate in the workshop so that APEC and the OECD can share information on findings and coordinate on any future work.
· APEC fora that are involved either directly or indirectly with travel and tourism, such as those groups responsible for the environment, investment, immigration, security, SMEs, etc. The TWG plans on engaging APEC fora, such as the SMEWG, HRDWG, and GFPN, during the research phase of this project. Their input will be vital to learning about the impediments and opportunities in the travel and tourism sector, and they will benefit from any research that is able to eliminate some of those impediments and expand on those opportunities.
In the long term the project seeks to optimize the economic benefits that member economies gain from travel and tourism flows to and within the APEC region. Initially, after the report is finalized and the workshop is completed, benefits will flow to the travel and tourism industries of member economies and, through them, to the member economies and the global economy. The tourism industry is private sector-driven, comprised largely of small to medium enterprises, and regionally dispersed between and within member economies. Benefits will flow across member economies to local areas where tourism is in many cases the major source of employment. Other direct beneficiaries will include public sector operating entities such as carriers, airports, shipping ports and rail transport all of which gain from increased tourist activity and non-government organizations and local governments operating not-for-profit services, facilities such as museums. Benefits from reducing barriers to trade will flow directly to the private sector through increased competitiveness, and hence tourist numbers and tourist spending. Reduced procedural barriers to business operations will also flow through to higher incomes, lower costs and greater freedom for businesses to operate. At the local level, a more liberal tourism regime will promote employment within regional areas and encourage new enterprises, particularly in the SME sector.
These benefits will be achieved mostly through the strategic policy recommendations that will be made in the report and presented at the workshop. These strategies will be discussed intercessionally within the TWG and then discussed at the first TWG meeting in 2013. TWG members will determine which recommendations are most important to the TWG and to the travel and tourism industry in the APEC region, and determine how best to implement the recommendations. The implementation phase could be incorporated into the future TWG annual work plans.
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Dissemination |
Two copies of the report will be sent to each member economy, to the Ministry of Tourism or the equivalent. A limited number of hard copies will also be available to PATA and WTTC members. The report will also be made available online on the APEC web site, as well as the PATA and WTTC web sites. Member economies will be asked to post the report on their web sites as well.
· Target audience for the results of the project (report):
o Ministries of Tourism, Trade and Development, Transport.
o International and national tourism industry representative
organizations; organizations which are linked to the tourism sector;
related national organizations.
o Regional, State and Provincial agencies with specific tourism-related
powers and responsibilities.
· Documented outcomes of the project:
o A report to individual APEC member economies (in English only),
following the workshop.
o A formal report to TWG on completion of the project.
o A final report for publication on the outcomes of the study, to include
steps for developing individual and collective action plans.
o Reports will be available in electronic format, in hard copy and, at
least in summary form, on the APEC web site.
o Copies to be available for distribution to ministries, libraries and
industry organizations.
o Accessibility will be achieved through the website and the distribution
of hard copies. Member economies will be encouraged to publish the
summary on their web sites.
o Publicity will be achieved using the resources of APEC, WTTC and
PATA to circulate to APEC member economies, the industry at large
and to related industry organizations. This will include a release to
trade media, a release to business and conventional media and use of
wire services to disseminate to key influential agencies (Bloomberg,
Reuters)
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Gender |
As women comprise up to 65 percent of employees in the tourism industry, women will be major beneficiaries of any expansion in competitiveness of travel and tourism in the APEC region which results from the development of new opportunities in the region.
Member economies will be asked to ensure that participation by women in the workshop to be held at the end of the project adequately reflect the high participation rate of women in their tourism industries.
The contractor will also be instructed to highlight opportunities identified in the study which are of particular significance to women. They will gain a better understanding of what these opportunities might be by speaking with the GFPN and SMEWG during the research and interview phase of the project.
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Work Plan |
Widely-recognized project management standards will be used to ensure the successful completion of the project on-time and within budget. An overview of the timeline is as follows, with a more detailed description of the steps and outputs outlined below.
a. Project Plan, timeline, and funding confirmed end Apr 2011
b. Consultant Appointed end May 2011
c. Scoping work with consultant (logistics, selecting participants) end July 2011
d. Research and interviews (with TWG members, other fora, multilaterals, etc.)
end Dec 2011
e. Monitoring/evaluation end Apr 2012
f. Preliminary draft and workshop planning end June 2012
g. Final report completed and workshop delivered end Aug 2012
h. Workshop follow up end Oct 2012
Initiation
April 2011: The project proposal, timeline and funding will be confirmed. The PO will work with our PD to prepare an RFP based on the contract Terms of Reference and the funding available for the contract. Once completed, the RFP will be circulated among member economies and posted on the APEC website in order to receive bids
Outputs: RFP completed, circulated, and posted.
May 2011: The contractor will be chosen based on the bids received. In order to have the contractor approved by the Secretariat, the PO will submit 1) CV and proposal from the recommended contractor, 2) a report that details the PO’s selection process and justifies the choice of preferred contractor, endorsed by the relevant PD, and 3) notice that the recommended contractor agrees to the standard contract terms and conditions. Once the contract is signed, the PO will inform unsuccessful bidders of the result.
Outputs: Signed contract, approved by the Secretariat.
Planning
July 2011: The consultant and the PO will scope out the work to be completed, including the research methodology and the logistics for the workshop. A preliminary table of contents for the final report will also be completed and agreed upon. Participants will be selected based on interest expressed at the TWG meeting in the Philippines in May 2011.
Outputs: Statement of work, research methodology and design confirmed,
draft table of contents for the report, participants confirmed.
Execution, Monitoring, and Assessment
December 2011: Research and interviews will take place over this time period with participating member economies, private sector participants (WTTC and PATA to help select), and other multilateral organizations (OECD, UNTWO, ASEAN).
Outputs: All research completed.
June 2012: The consultant will formulate a preliminary draft of the report based on the research as well as the previously agreed upon contents. The report will include policy recommendations and suggestions for next steps. Member economies will have time to review the draft, to ask questions, and to make comments before the report is finalized.
Outputs: Draft report, to be circulated among economies, PATA, and WTTC.
August 2012: Final report completed and workshop delivered on the margins of the TWG meeting in Russia.
Outputs: Final report completed and circulated among economies, PATA, and
WTTC, as well as posted on the APEC web site and the PATA and WTTC web
sites. The workshop will also be completed.
October 2012: The consultant will follow up with the member economies, private sector companies, and the international organizations that participated in the research portion of the project, as well as with member economies that participated in the workshop. The objective of this phase is to determine what the participants thought of the workshop and whether they have taken the policy recommendations back to their home economies. Participants in this phase will also be asked what their top priorities are for moving forward with the policy recommendations, and these results will be discussed at the next TWG meeting.
Outputs: Workshop evaluation, plan for moving forward with the policy
strategies and recommendations.
Sample Report Table of Contents
1. Executive Summary
2. Background on issue – travel and tourism impediments
3. Past research
4. Methodology
5. Research and Interview Findings
6. Policy recommendations
7. Future research recommendations
Sample Workshop Agenda
The workshop will be held on the margins of the TWG meeting in August 2012. Participants will include member economies, private sector members of PATA and WTTC (particularly those that provided sponsorship), and expert speakers in the opportunity areas identified,
1. Background on issue – travel and tourism impediments (PO/consultant)
2. Research Methodology (consultant)
3. Research and Interview Findings (consultant)
4. Policy strategy recommendations (consultant and expert speakers)
5. Future research recommendations (consultant)
6. Best practices, with input from the private sector
7. Discussion (member economies, private sector, experts, consultant)
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Risks |
· Low interest in participation. This will be managed by having an ongoing consultation with economies on speakers, strategies, and agendas; clear communication and usage strategy
· Duplication of work of other APEC fora or fora outside of APEC. This will be managed through close consultation with relevant groups; comprehensive research into similar projects; consultation with overseers of precursor projects; consultation with OECD Tourism Committee Chair.
· Ensuring that the results are neither too targeted nor too broad. Certain impediments to travel and tourism – travel facilitation, connectivity, sustainable tourism, and emergency preparedness, among others – have already been identified by the TWG as issues that are relevant to them. This includes both developed and developing economies. By looking at the opportunities within these identified areas, the PO can work closely with the consultant to ensure that the results meet the needs of participants. The scoping work with the consultant, as well as the research and interviews with TWG members, the private sector, and international organizations, will further help to target the specific needs of participants. While the focus of this project will be on developing economies, the more developed economies will most certainly have input into the scoping work as well as the research and interview phase. Additionally, this project will dovetail with the OECD project on liberalisation, which will most certainly have more of a focus on developed economies.
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Monitoring and Evaluation |
Monitoring will be done through a consultative process involving the United States (current Lead Shepherd), Australia and the Philippines, and senior executives from both PATA and the WTTC. In addition, PATA and WTTC will be actively involved in the planning and execution of the project, providing private sector input and working with the Consultant/s to monitor progress and ensure timely completion of each phase of the project.
Following the completion of the workshop, the policy recommendations and strategies laid out in the report will be incorporated into the APEC TWG medium-term strategic plan and yearly workplans. The TWG will then strive to work toward integrating the strategies into its work as a group and into the strategies of individual economies. Follow-up discussions will take place at each TWG meeting. Markers for success will include new project proposals that will help these strategies take form and implementation of recommended policy strategies. Depending on what the research finds, success may also occur in the form of a follow-up project to look deeper into certain issues and opportunities.
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Linkages |
While the United States is the proposing economy, PATA and WTTC will be the primary proponents of the project and will be integrally involved in the planning and execution. As such, the WTTC and PATA will be representing the private sector as well as soliciting input and sponsorship from them. The private sector will be participating in all phases of the project, from research to the workshop. Earlier APEC studies have demonstrated that some of the best solutions come from the private sector/industry, hence the importance of a public-private partnership to address these issues.
This project builds on the work already completed in two published reports: 1) Impediments to Tourism Growth in the APEC Region (1997); and 2) APEC Tourism Impediments Study, Stage 2 (2004).
The differences from the previous works are largely that this new study would:
· Emphasise the business opportunities rather than the impediments (although the latter would be noted within the report);
· Link across the various APEC working groups to involve investment, transport, the digital economy, the environment, immigration, security etc.;
· Involve the thoughts and inputs of the private sector through agencies such as PATA, WTTC and others;
· Develop and model scenarios for tourism development that feed back into quantifiable measures such as local employment, taxation revenues and economic, social and environmental sustainability; the need for, and role of, innovation in this process; and
· Provide a broad blueprint as to how these opportunities might be optimised by 2015.
Some impediments to travel and tourism growth have already been identified in the previous APEC studies and include: tourism and national policy regulations; safety and security issues; administrative practices; infrastructure; environment and culture; taxes; and travel advisories.
Additionally, the OECD is about to begin work on a project on “Liberalisation in the Tourism Sector.” The study will identify priority areas/measures perceived as obstacles to international tourism and will review current practices for those areas. This study, along with the previous APEC studies identifying obstacles and impediments to tourism growth, will dovetail with the proposed project, which will focus on opportunities.
The proposed project is best undertaken in APEC because of the number of developing member economies. OECD, for example, is more focused on developed economy issues. This project is also best undertaken in APEC because of the opportunity to engage with other fora. For example, the TWG plans to engage the Human Resources Development Working Group during the research and interview phase in order to gain further perspective on opportunities for job creation within the travel and tourism sector. The TWG also plans to engage the Transportation Working Group to look at issues relating to connectivity; the Emergency Preparedness Working Group to look at disaster management; and the Gender Focal Point Network and the SME Working Group to look at issues relating to women and small businesses, as many travel and tourism businesses fall under those two categories. This engagement will be further outlined during the scoping work with the consultant.
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Sustainability |
Stakeholders and beneficiaries will be supported to carry forward the results and lessons from the project through:
· Follow up project/workshops. The opportunities identified in the study can be further explored during subsequent workshops on the margins of TWG meetings. Workshops can be developed around specific topics that arise out of the study.
· Participants returning home to share information in their home economies.
· Information-sharing dialogue(s) with WTTC, PATA, OECD, and other multilateral and international organizations on the margins of TWG meetings.
· The TWG and member economies adopting the policy recommendations from the study and incorporating relevant onces into the APEC workplan.
Driving the Project Forward
Following the completion of the workshop in August 2012, the consultant will disseminate evaluations/surveys regarding the workshop itself and what participants think are the priorities moving forward. The consultant will provide further follow-up and next steps in October 2012 after the TWG, PATA and the WTTC have had time to discuss the policy strategy recommendations intercessionally.
This consistent dialogue among the TWG, PATA, WTTC and the consultant, as well as future workshops centred around specific policy recommendations, will help to ensure participants use the knowledge back in their home economies.
Also, as the WTTC and PATA are two of the main project proponents, their leadership and engagement will ensure that the project results are communicated to their private sector members. At the TWG meetings, the WTTC and PATA will be able to report on any results and successes they hear from their membership p. Additionally, they will be able to provide feedback from their membership on needs for future research. The study/report and the workshop will discuss the issues and find ways of reducing impediments to travel and tourism, using best practice and input from the private sector. As one of the objectives is to come up with Individual Action Plans and well as a Collective Action Plan, these plans can be used to keep the project moving forward.
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Project Overseers |
The project will be overseen by a consortium of the United States, Australia, and the Philippines and a senior executive from each of PATA and the WTTC.
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Cost Efficiency |
The project will maximize the cost-efficient use of resources by:
· Holding the final seminar/workshop on the margins of the TWG meeting to
reduce travel and per diem;
· Using private sector sponsors to cover at least 1/3 of the project cost;
· Leveraging the results of past APEC projects on impediments as well as the
current OECD project on barriers to tourism growth;
· Employing consultants with experience working on similar projects and with
experience in the travel and tourism sector; and
· Ensuring that outputs are sustainable and will remain relevant in the long
-term.
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Drawdown Timetable |
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Direct Labour |
A firm with experience in the travel and tourism field will be contracted to conduct primary and secondary research, including conducting interviews with study participants (TWG members, private sector, international organizations). Duties will include scoping and design of the study, collection and analysis of data, arrangements and management of the workshop, publication of the findings, and follow-up with participants.
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Are there any supporting document attached? |
No
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