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Developing countries/nations/world

Posted: 23 May 2002

The world's less wealthy nations, mostly former colonies: ie most of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the South Pacific. Also sometimes referred to as the South.



Source: The Community Tourism Guide by Mark Mann, published by Earthscan Publications, London, 2001.

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