We discuss why LED needs to be conceptualised as a process. It is crucial to build credibility, trust, confidence and creativity. An LED process is a learning process. It is also, unfortunately for external donors, somewhat unpredictable.

Christian Schoen interviews Jonathan Mitchell about the relationship between the pro-poor tourism approach and local economic development. 

Christian Schoen (mesopartner) and Jonathan Mitchell (Overseas Development Institute) talk about their efforts to promote tourism through local economic development activities in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang.

We discuss the evolution of LED in South Africa.