Dominican Resort Tourism, Sustainability, and Millennium Development Goals

Power, Ownership and Tourism in Small Islands: Evidence from Indonesia

“…(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015) for example, have led to LDC governments using tourism to assist in achieving some of those goals such as poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability (Sasidharan and Hall, 2012). More recently alternative economic growth models proposed by international organizations identify tourism playing an important role in inclusive growth strategies (World Bank, 2012a), the green economy (UNEP/UN WTO, 2012) and the 'blue economy' (World Bank, 2012b).…”

Puntacana Ecological Foundation and the Scaling of Sustainable Tourism Development

“…The way these programs target specific and salient environmental and social problems indicates a degree of innovation, collaboration with, and leveraging of programs and resources determined to fulfill these goals and indicates they are taking a systemic view of the impacts and the trends in social-ecological and economic systems. As indicated by Sasidharan and Hall (2012) important ideas from the "Dominican Model" can inform other tourism operators and regions, and provide exemplars for advancing sustainable tourism globally, including: q Preservation of natural resources depends on understanding that complex, dynamic intersecting economic, cultural, ecological, historical, and political systems can only be successful when interventions are adaptive processes, q Sound environmental management that directly involves stakeholders, seeks opportunity within processes to sustain both human and natural assets, enlists stakeholders and interests, and seeks solutions that are Ecology and Society 18(4): 73 http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss4/art73/ well integrated into evolving social, ecological, and economic systems will be better integrated into these systems in the long term, q Solutions must be seen as ongoing commitment, and works in progress, rather than short-term fixes. Persistence, ingenuity, reflection on effectiveness and attention to both primary and secondary effects will result in more sustainable programs, that can also reduce the economic impact of traditional approaches, e.g., sustainable waste management saves money in the long term over traditional landfill, and q Embracing the philosophy of "think globally, act locally" must address very specific opportunities and needs while developing far-ranging and highly innovative and integrative solutions that depend on local and global resources and ideas.…”

“…The GPC and its foundations were used as the exemplar in a study to determine the trajectory of Dominican resort tourism toward attaining the United Nations 2015, Millennium Development Goals. It is clear that the resulting "Dominican Model" has promise as a generalizable approach to achieving these goals (Sasidharan and Hall 2012). An important quality of the programs is demonstration of the utility of collaboration and cooperation among local initiatives and businesses (seeking synergistic agricultural activities such as fruit tree cultivation and beekeeping), and large-scale international initiatives, such as the Clinton Global initiative, the United Nations, Save the Children, and others, to deal with preserving fisheries, coral reefs, and regionally and globally endangered species such as the Ridgway's Hawk (Buteo ridgwayi) and Rhinoceros Iguana (Cyclura cornuta); along with developing integrated models for dealing with problems of rapid growth of peri-urban areas like Veron and the need to retrain populations for emerging shifts in employment.…”

Factors contributing to high prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites in children aged 2–15 years in the Punta Cana region of the Dominican Republic

“…Other parts of Verón are more urbanized, with neighborhoods, apartments, and gated communities. 10 The majority of inhabitants in the poorer areas of Verón are uninsured and without access to public and private health care. Many rely on the outpatient medical care clinic, la Clínica Rural de Verón, for their medical needs.…”

“…8 The children of Verón are at high risk for a variety of medical conditions, most notably for parasitic infections. 1,[9][10][11][12][13][14] In a comprehensive study by Childers et al 9 conducted at la Clínica Rural de Verón, 127 of 128 children between ages 2 years and 15 years were found to be infected with one or more gastrointestinal parasites. Besides poverty, other contributory factors enhance this outrageously high infection rate that directly impacts several aspects of childhood development.…”