Welcome to the first Rural Tourism e-Classes class.  You've just made a great decision accessing the content created and offered by EXA Group Canada through the 10 Year Countdown program. 

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The entire planning, development, creation, editing, and publication of Rural Tourism e-Classes is the work of tourism expert and project manager Edmar Xavier. All part of graphic design for social media is Barbara Camargo's work. 

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Below you can access some of the links related to research in this class and increase your technical knowledge about rural development.  

a. https://www.unwto.org/ 

b. https://www.unwto.org/tourism4sdgs 

c. https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda 

d. https://www.oecd.org/cfe/regionaldevelopment/Rural-3.0-Policy-Note.pdf 

e. https://www.oecd.org/cfe/tourism/2755218.pdf