Tourism and poverty reduction pathways to prosperity /

• Main Author: Mitchell, Jonathan.
• Other Authors: Ashley, Caroline.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2010.
• Series: Tourism, environment and development.
• Subjects: Tourism.; Tourism > Government policy.; Poverty > Government policy.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Hospitality, Travel & Tourism. > Industries; Tourismus.; Wirtschaftsentwicklung.; Nachhaltige Entwicklung.; Armut.; Bekämpfung.; Entwicklungsländer.; Electronic books.
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"Tourism can reduce poverty in developing countries. But tourism growth is not universally inclusive of the poor. Moreover our understanding of how tourism affects the poor is largely based on partial and superficial analysis. Researchers from different disciplines and practitioners with differ...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The three pathways: understanding how tourism affects the poor
• The scale of flows to the poor
• Pathway 1: direct effects of tourism on the poor
• Pathway 2: secondary benefit flows from tourism to the poor
• Pathway 3: dynamic effects on macro and local economies
• Impacts of different types of tourism
• Methods for assessing the impacts of tourism on poverty
• A different perspective on tourism and poverty.