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Tourism is an easy-access sector for micro and small enterprises and for the self-employed, who make up a significant part of the tourism sector and community-level entrepreneurship in general. UN composition/Adobe Stock image.

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An indigenous entrepreneur in tune with Mother Earth

After successfully reclaiming her people’s territory in Quebrada de Humahuaca, Northern Argentina, Celestina Ábalos turned to tourism to share and promote her indigenous culture. ILO entrepreneurship training during the COVID-19 pandemic helped her business to grow. See the full story on ILO Voices.

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Aerial view of the coast of Pulau Perhentian Kecil in Malaysia

Tourism goes green

Investing in sustainable turism and integrated island waste management in Malaysia.

Merima at her store of souvenirs

Entrepreneur turns problems into profit

Merima is a young agricultural engineer from Bosnia and Herzegovina who knew how to take advantage of the needs that arose in the pandemic to implement them in his tourism business.

Four people talking outdoors

"How my tourism business survived COVID-19"

Dekha Dewandana is the owner of a homestay in Indonesia. Despite the pandemic, he never gave up and turned the best host of his own village.