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 . Tourism and the millennium development goals tourism local communities and development edited by jarkko saarinen christian m rogerson and haretsebe manwa vs routledge g taylor francis croup london and new york contents citation information vii 1 tourism poverty reduction and the millennium development goals. 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 . The papers discuss what lessons can be learnt and conclusions drawn from the utilisation of tourism for development and poverty reduction what emerges from this collection is a set of interesting results and notions which both support and challenge the connections between tourism and development and the new role of tourism in global development. 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