Tourism Employment & Opportunity

CDS’ innovative TEMPO model is a collaborative system organized to build the capacity of micro, small, and medium size enterprises to access new markets and B2B linkages, more fully participate in public sector planning, and more convincingly sell the assets they have to offer to the tourism industry.

TEMPO is an ‘intrapreneurial’ model, and programs that follow it focus on assisting local businesses to provide services demanded by tourists at market rates and international standards. The programs utilize donor funding to build capacity of local businesses and perform asset audits and value chain analyses to determine the goods and services on offer versus market demand from tourists. They then become collaborative nonprofit enterprises that link high-performing local businesses into international booking and reservations systems.

This combination of services that provides capacity building for businesses in the tourism industry and facilitates entry into real-time reservations systems is the standout added value of TEMPO versus other tourism development programs.

Activities within the TEMPO model that create sustainable and sustaining tourism enterprises include:

• Demand Surveys
• The CDS Inventory and Asset Audit System
• The CDS Tourism Products Registry™
• Value Chain Analysis
• Strategy and Action Planning
• Capacity-building and Partnerships
• Competitive Grants
• Product Development
• Digital Content Development for Marketing and Sales
• Linkages to Wholesale and Retail Tour Operators and Other Channels

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